Fleet Management Platform

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An AI-native, open-source fleet management platform for vehicle tracking, maintenance, fuel management, and driver behaviour — without hardware lock-in or multi-year contracts.

Fleet Management Platform is a self-hostable system for organisations that operate vehicles — logistics carriers, service businesses, municipal fleets, and mixed industrial operators. It unifies real-time GPS tracking, maintenance workflows, compliance reporting, and AI-driven safety and predictive analytics into a single platform built on open standards.

Why Fleet Management Platform?

Incumbents like Samsara and Motive lock customers into proprietary hardware and multi-year contracts, with pricing rarely published and quotes ranging $27–$60 per vehicle per month.
Verizon Connect customers report rigid contracts, glitchy mobile apps, and persistent customer service issues; Azuga mandates 36-month contracts — the longest in the industry.
Fleetio offers strong maintenance UX but has no native GPS, ELD, or dashcam capability, forcing customers to stitch together multiple vendors.
Existing open-source options (Traccar, FleetBase, OpenGTS) provide tracking primitives but lack maintenance workflows, ELD/HOS compliance, AI analytics, and modern UX.
Only Samsara has launched a generative AI assistant for fleet operations; predictive maintenance across the market is still mostly rule-based threshold alerts rather than ML failure prediction.

Key Features

Tracking and Visibility

Real-time GPS vehicle tracking with live map view using open standards and self-hostable map tiles
Geofencing with configurable alerts for boundary crossings, speed thresholds, and excessive idle time
Historical trip reporting and data export
Asset tracking for trailers, equipment, and non-vehicle assets

Maintenance and Lifecycle

Preventive and corrective work orders with service scheduling
Vehicle diagnostics with engine fault code (DTC) monitoring
Cost tracking and total cost of ownership reporting per vehicle
Parts inventory, vendor management, and recall/warranty tracking (planned tiers)

Driver Safety and Compliance

Driver behaviour monitoring with automated event logging for harsh braking, acceleration, and speeding
Mobile driver app for inspection forms (DVIR), trip logging, and messaging
ELD / HOS compliance module aligned with US FMCSA and Canada Transport requirements (v1.1)
IFTA fuel-tax report generation (v1.1)

Fuel, EV, and Sustainability

Fuel management with fuel card integration, cost-per-mile tracking, and anomaly detection (v1.1)
EV fleet management: battery state of charge, charging status, and range estimation (v1.1)
ESG and emissions reporting with per-vehicle and per-route carbon footprint calculations (backlog)

Platform and Integration

REST API with webhook support for third-party integrations
Role-based access control across fleet manager, driver, mechanic, and admin roles
Multi-fleet and sub-fleet organisational hierarchy with permission scoping (v1.1)

AI-Native Advantage

Most incumbents rely on rule-based threshold alerts and require navigating complex report builders to extract insights. This project builds AI in from the start: predictive maintenance using OBD-II and sensor data with ML failure models, real-time dashcam analytics for harsh-event and distraction detection, dynamic route optimisation that recalculates as traffic and job priorities change, and a natural language query interface for ad-hoc fleet reporting. Anomaly detection extends to fuel-card fraud, unauthorised vehicle use, and odometer manipulation.

Tech Stack & Deployment

The platform is designed to be self-hostable, with a REST API and webhook event model as the primary integration surface. Mapping uses OpenStreetMap-compatible tiles. Hardware integration follows the precedent set by open-source platforms like Traccar, which supports 2,000+ GPS device models across 200+ protocols, allowing the platform to remain device-agnostic rather than locked to proprietary hardware. Mobile driver apps cover inspection, trip, and messaging workflows.

Market Context

The fleet management software market is projected to surpass $30 billion in 2026, growing at approximately 16–18% CAGR (research.md). Per-vehicle pricing among incumbents ranges from $5–$60 per month, with hardware adding $100–$400 per vehicle upfront and enterprise contracts typically requiring multi-year commitments. Primary buyers are fleet managers, transportation directors, logistics and supply-chain managers, safety compliance officers, CFOs tracking fleet TCO, and municipal government fleet supervisors.

Project Status

This project is in the research and specification phase.
Contributions, feedback, and domain expertise are welcome.

Contributing

We welcome contributions from developers, domain experts, and potential users. See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

Important: All contributions must be your own original work or clearly attributed open-source material with a compatible licence. Copyright infringement and licence violations will not be tolerated and will result in immediate removal of the offending contribution. If you are unsure whether a piece of code, text, or other material is safe to contribute, open an issue and ask before submitting.

Licence

Licence to be determined. See discussion for context.