GENERATOR MANUFACTURER JCB FIRST TO MAKE TELEMATICS STANDARD
JCB announces a major new innovation for the power generation industry by becoming the first manufacturer to make telematics standard on its generators.
JCB Power Products MD Jonathan Garnham said: “JCB LiveLink on generators from 65kVA to 600kVA will radically change the way fleets of generators are monitored and managed. Our competitors cannot offer customers a telematics solution that is capable of delivering so much useful data. It is the ultimate customer benefit and will mean increased uptime, greater profitability and reduced cost of ownership.”
JCB Power Products is making LiveLink available as standard on the QS 20-220kVA generator range, the full line-up of Scania-powered QX models and JCB’s innovative Inteli-Hybrid generators. JCB LiveLink for power generation offers the following features:
Monitoring the operational hours and fuel levels of generators
Real-time monitoring of load profiling and load per phase
Real time notifications to prevent misuse and provision of intelligent fuel management
Health alerts to minimize operational costs to improve generator up-time
Remote diagnostics to reduce generator downtime
Location of generators’ exact locations and setting of curfew alerts for peace of mind
Generation of usage reports to increase machine performance
Maintaining Up-time
Maintaining a reliable power source is the overriding priority and LiveLink constantly monitors the generator performance and status. It provides a variety of notification alerts including high coolant temperatures. In addition, the system will deliver starter battery monitoring to ensure the machine always starts, fuel level information, including reporting if there is a rapid fuel discharge, which could indicate theft. Information on machine working hours and a countdown to machine service intervals is available and easy to access. LiveLink will provide fleet managers with both location tracking and geo-fencing capabilities, with movement alerts to reduce theft and unauthorised movement of the equipment.
In addition the system will notify if the generator is operating outside of pre-set hours which rental customers have requested.
Optimization
JCB LiveLink is constantly reporting machine output power and load data to help customers select the most appropriate generator for the application. LiveLink will provide information to allow managers to maximize the utilization of their generator fleets. Managers can design their own reporting schedules, to include fleet and service reports, utilisation and notification alerts. Companies can switch generators to suit their exact power requirements, saving money and increasing machine utilization.
