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© InterFleet RFP No. 11 -12 -01 City of Sunny Isles Beach integrations and sensors. InterFleet® customers with snow plows can view their fleet's travel route and precisely monitor its road cleaning and salting operations in real time – guaranteeing customers cleaner and safer streets and mitigating environmental impact by significantly reducing salt use. An industry original, InterFleet® was launched commercially in 1998 with an EMS (Emergency Medical Services) client tracking ambulances every 100 meters of vehicle travel. This translated into the industry leading vehicle average update rate of 6 to 10 reports per minute. InterFleet's data optimization provides this level of clarity (and better) for similar or less cost than GPS /AVL systems reporting vehicle updates at typically 1 minute or greater. In addition, InterFleet's patented live screen map displays the entire fleet and automatically refreshes updated status changes every second. Flexible and adaptable, InterFleet® is a readily customizable end -to -end offering. Our clients benefit from an ability to modify any or all of the core system components at any time. This includes the InterFleet® on -board GPS /AVL hardware (and firmware), middleware, and end -user software. InterFleet® has been tailored to provide a broad variety of machine -to- machine interfaces and legacy software integrations. Client- driven application development has focused on the practical concerns faced in managing fleets operations. Public sector fleets have been the primary focus for InterFleet® and has resulted in InterFleet® Inc. capturing a dominant share of the market for GPS /AVL related solutions for government fleet operations in North America. The company has developed a number of targeted applications that go far beyond a simple web -based tracking. In addition to specialized applications targeted to public works, public safety, transit and waste management, the company has pioneered public information web site displays of live GPS /AVL data in www.whereismvbus.com in Saskatoon in 1999 as well as www.whereismvsnowplow.com in Vaughan in 2001. InterFleet's Experience As one of the original suppliers of real -time Internet -based GPS /AVL in Canada, InterFleet® has been exposed to both the operational and asset management needs of a wide variety of public sector operations. Because of our disciplined focus on public sector applications, over 95% of our clients are government fleets or are contractors that do work for the government. InterFleet® has found through experience that government organizations implementing GPS /AVL typically do so for a variety of reasons. Firstly, it demonstrates a duty of care demanded from organizations funded from tax revenue. This is both from a public accountability viewpoint (value for money for use of public funds) but also a risk management (liability) viewpoint. This covers everything from equipment utilization —is equipment being used —to is it being used properly (idling, driving habits, proper maintenance and care) to measuring duty of care regarding maintenance of roads during winter storm events (is the snow on, are the roads being cleared to the policy set out). Secondly, government fleet managers are looking to be more efficient in their use of their limited budgets and resources. Resources include people, equipment and time. In this case, mobile equipment (vehicles) and the consumable materials used in their operation such as gasoline and equipment parts as well as maintenance materials (e.g. road salt). In addition, how the resources are deployed (i.e. is it the most efficient) impacts the use of labour resources. Being more efficient can mean deploying resources more effectively to reduce overall mileage and vehicle wear and tear on the fleet. So, the natural and important next step to improving efficiency is to improve the tools used to measure and track use of existing resources to assess the current situation in greater detail. PROPRIETARY & CONFIDENTIAL: This document contains information that is proprietary to InterFleet Inc. Use or disclosure of any material contained herein without the consent of InterFleet Inc. is strictly prohibited.