CGI EMO DRIVING TOWARDS A GREENER FUTURE

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A GREENER FUTURE
CGI EMO DRIVING TOWARDS A GREENER FUTURE
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                                   Cutting costs through
                                   better fleet monitoring

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                                                   orldwide, gas prices are at an all   contributes to as much as 40% of your total
                                                   time high. In Europe, fuel prices    emissions and leads to a proportional increase in
                                                   have increased by 20% in just the    fuel consumption.
                                                   last one year. Elsewhere in the
                                   world, the price rise has been even steeper.         Bad driving not only impacts how much fuel is
                                                                                        used, but also has indirect costs such as increased
                                   This sharp increase in prices has affected company   vehicle maintenance, driver safety concerns and
                                   bottom lines across industries and service lines.    loss of productivity through frequent vehicle
                                   A typical 1,000 fleet mid-sized company today        breakdowns.
                                   spends €700K- €1M more than it did last year on
                                   fuel costs. And the trend does not show any signs    In addition, poor monitoring of drivers often
                                   of slowing down.                                     leads to misuse in the form of fuel theft or use
                                                                                        of corporate vehicles for personal reasons. Such
                                   In this scenario, how does one arrest spiraling      losses add up to over €40 per vehicle per month
                                   fuel costs or even bring them down? How does         for companies with passenger vehicles and even
                                   a company reduce the cost of ownership of its        higher for companies with heavy vehicles.
                                   vehicle fleet without spending millions of Euros
                                   upgrading the entire fleet?                          The key to cutting costs and reducing losses is

Even a 2% increase in aggressive   Research has shown that driving habits has a
                                   significant impact on fuel consumption. Spending
                                                                                        proper monitoring of vehicle fleets in a manner that
                                                                                        helps companies understand their usage and take
                                                                                        corrective action.

driving time can increase carbon   just 2% of your driving time in aggressive mode

emissions by 40%                    Losses from fuel consumption
                                                                                                       Cost per vehicle per month

                                                                                                                   €22

                                    Increased vehicle maintenance                                                   €8

Improved driving habits can         Reduced vehicle utilization

                                    Losses from fuel theft
                                                                                                                    €5

                                                                                                                    €7

help companies reduce their fuel    Total                                                                          €42

costs by up to 15%                  ESTIMATED AVERAGE LOSSES PER VEHICLE PER MONTH FROM INSUFFICIENT DRIVER MONITORING
                                    OF PASSENGER VEHICLE FLEETS. FIGURES BASED ON CGI DEPLOYMENTS WITH CLENTS.
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                                                                                                                Over 95% of drivers report an
                                                                                                                improvement in driving within a
Introducing CGI EMO                                                                                             few months of using CGI EMO

C                                                       How does it work?                                       CGI EMO Green
            GI EMO is CGI’s multiple award winning                                                                                                                      This helps fleet owners perform preventive
            fleet monitoring and emission control                                                                                                                       maintenance of their vehicles thus increasing fleet

                                                                                                                Index score
            solution that helps customers save                                                                                                                          performance and reducing downtime.
            time and money.                             The solution consists of a device that fits into

                                                                                                                                                                        Use in fleets
                                                        the onboard computer of the vehicle to measure
A safe, efficient and reliable system to wirelessly     various driving related parameters.                     The CGI EMO Green Index score is a unique
monitor vehicle fleets in real time, CGI EMO helps                                                              rating scale that helps drivers and managers easily
fleets understand and take control of their costs       Using proprietary algorithms, the solution              understand their driving characteristics relative to        CGI EMO has been designed from the ground up
through improved driving behavior.                      then calculates the carbon emission and fuel            other drivers. The score, given out of 10, helps            for use by vehicle fleets. Any organization with a
                                                        consumption of the vehicle in real time and             drivers quantify their driving behavior and measure         fleet can start using CGI EMO to see immediate
Using a comprehensive set of tools such as an           wirelessly transmits this data to backend systems       improvement quantitatively.                                 benefits through reduced fuel costs and improved
easy-to-use web portal, SMS alerts and real-time        for reporting and analysis.                                                                                         driving behavior.
in-vehicle alerts, CGI EMO provides feedback to                                                                 The Green Index score can be used by managers
drivers and fleet managers on how to improve            Drivers and fleet managers can then log in to           to separate the good drivers from the bad and               CGI’s engagement with clients around the world
individual driving characteristics to become better,    the web application or access reports from their        provide incentives for improvement.                         have shown that over 95 percent of drivers show
more eco friendly drivers.                              mobile phones to perform detailed analysis of                                                                       an improvement in driving within a few months

                                                                                                                Measuring vehicle
                                                        individual driving characteristics and scope for                                                                    of the solution deployment. Through its targeted
This in turn results in improved vehicle performance,   improvement.                                                                                                        feedback and measurable results, organizations

                                                                                                                health
lower fuel consumption and reduced carbon                                                                                                                                   can create greater engagement with their
emissions. Thus, CGI EMO helps any customer                                                                                                                                 employees by tying individual performance to
with a vehicle fleet to save money, ensure driver                                                                                                                           corporate targets.
safety and reduce the environmental impact of                                                                   In addition to capturing emissions and driving
vehicular pollution.                                                                                            characteristics, CGI EMO helps reduce vehicle               CGI EMO’s unique combination of proven vehicle
                                                                                                                downtime by proactively reporting vehicle issues            telematics and user friendly application design
                                                                                                                as soon as they occur. Since the EMO device is              provides a safe and reliable solution to measuring
                                                                                                                connected to the vehicle computer, any trouble              fleet performance in today’s environment.
                                                                                                                codes raised by the engine are immediately
                                                                                                                reported by the solution and sent as alerts to the
                                                                                                                drivers and fleet managers.

 Recognized by
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                                                                                                                    Equip your fleet               Tie driver ratings            Analyze and               Reward drivers
                                                                                                                    with the CGI                   with CGI EMO                  monitor fuel and          proportional to
                                                                                                                    EMO solution                   performance                   carbon trends             impact

                                                                                                                                       Reduce fuel costs and improve fleet productivity using CGI EMO
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Performance tools designed                                      Galp Energia
for fleets

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                                                                          he client is a leading energy company                                              8.1
                                                                          based out of Europe. Their business                                 7.8

                                  Slice and dice the                      interests span oil extraction, refining and         6.4
                                                                          distribution.
                                  data to understand
                                  precise driving               The client prides itself for its strong social and
                                                                                                                              6.3
                                  characteristics and           ecological consciousness. Through various                                      5.8
                                                                sustainability initiatives, it seeks to reduce the
                                  scope for improvement         environmental impact of itself and its customers.
                                                                                                                                                             5.5

                                                                Towards this end, the client approached CGI to
                                                                implement the CGI EMO solution on their vehicle
                                                                                                                           1st month      2nd month       3rd month
                                                                fleets. The goal was to bring about a change in
                                                                driving behavior that would help reduce carbon                      Fuel consumption (liters / 100km)
    Compare driver performance                                  emissions while also cutting fuel bills.                             CGI EMO Green Index score

      using the unique CGI EMO
                                                                Over a period of three months, CGI EMO helped the
              Green Index score                                 client reduce their fuel consumption by over 10%
                                          Create competitions   leading to average savings of €33 per vehicle per        “Simple, cost-effective
                                                                month. This improvement in driving characteristics
                                          between drivers to    was reflected in the 29% increase in their Green          and, more than
                                          motivate them to      Index scores during the period.
                                          improve                                                                         technology, focused
                                                                In addition, CGI EMO helped improve fleet
                                                                productivity and driver safety through improved           on people’s behavior.”
                                                                driving characteristics such as acceleration and
                                                                speeding.                                                  Nicolle Fernandes

                                                                CGI EMO with its intuitive, easy-to-use fleet solution     Project Manager, Galp
                                                                helped the client take control of their fleet costs.

                                                                                                              10%+                                   € 33
        Access CGI EMO                                              1.7 tons                                reduction in
                                                                                                                                                per vehicle
        on a range of                                               carbon saved                                                                per month
        supported mobile                                                                                        fuel                              savings
        platforms
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Leading European Postal                                                                                         Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles
Company

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           he client is one of Europe’s largest         and fleet managers could now see their driving                    he Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles is the only       So, in 2011, we fitted the Rallye vehicles with our
           postal companies with a total fleet size     patterns analyzed and the impact of those driving                 all-women rally in the world. Since 1990,      award winning, CGI EMO solution to wirelessly
           of 50,000 postal vehicles. The client        patterns on emissions.                                            it’s been bringing women together from         monitor carbon emissions in real time. Then we
           was looking for a way to reduce the                                                                            33 countries to race against each other        looked at a whole range of factors – emissions,
environmental impact of their large fleet without       This reduction in carbon emissions also helped          in the Moroccan desert.                                  speed, acceleration and braking– to come up
significant investment in time and money.               the client save money on fuel costs. Monthly fuel                                                                with a CGI EMO Green Index score for each team.
                                                        consumption went down by 8.35% during this              The Rallye has always been about promoting a
The client approached CGI to do a project with          period.                                                 greener way of driving, not just through smarter         The CGI EMO Green Index score was used by the
their fleet using CGI EMO – CGI’s sustainability                                                                technology, but smarter driving techniques. Unlike       Rallye as a judging criteria and counted towards
solution to reduce vehicular pollution through          In addition, CGI EMO also helped improve driver         an average race, the competition isn’t about who         the final score and ranking of the participants. So
improved driving behavior.                              and vehicle safety by changing driving habits.          can cross the finish line first. In fact the winner of   for the first time, a team could win the race by
                                                        Aggressive driving, characterized by hard               the Rallye is the team who can go from start to          having the lowest emissions, even if they didn’t
The requirement was to have a solution which did        acceleration and braking, reduced by 15% and            finish in the shortest distance possible; minimizing     find the shortest route.
not require the client to spend significant money       over speeding instances were brought down by            fuel consumption and carbon emissions.
in upgrading their existing fleet of vehicles. At the   10%.                                                                                                             By the end of the eight-day race, CGI EMO had
same time, the solution had to be easy to use and                                                               The Rallye is the first major sports event in the        helped cut overall emissions by 10.5% and saved
require minimal changes to existing processes.                                                                  world to consider carbon emissions as part of their      over 1.5 tons of carbon emissions.
Finally, the solution also had to work with the wide       177                                                  scoring system, and to get contestants to focus
range of cars that the client used, from passenger                                                              on reducing their carbon footprint. In 2010, CGI         With the help of CGI EMO, we were able to cut
vehicles to light trucks.                                                                                       became an official partner to the Rallye. Together,      engine idling by 25%, hard acceleration and
                                                                                                                we launched a new award for eco-driving which            braking by 50% and unnecessary speeding by
To meet the requirements, CGI EMO was deployed                                                                  goes to the team with the lowest carbon footprint.       91%.
in the client’s fleet in a major European city. The                                              164            But we needed to find a way to measure that data.
results were immediate.

In just four months, CGI EMO helped save over
                                                           First month                    Fourth month
                                                                                                                The EMO Solution
4 tons of carbon emissions. The savings were
achieved through targeted feedback to the fleet                                                                 We realized that if we wanted drivers to change
drivers using the CGI EMO solution. Drivers                   Carbon emissions (g/km)                           their habits, we needed to show them how much
                                                                                                                fuel they’re using in real time during the event.

                                              8.35%                                  € 21
       4 tons                                reduction in
                                                                                   per vehicle
     carbon saved                                                                  per month
                                                 fuel                                savings
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              Benefits summary

              • 10-12% reduction in fuel consumption and carbon
                emissions
              • Improved driving behavior and greater road safety
                through targeted driving feedback
              • Easy to install and use - plug & play device
              • Improved vehicle maintenance through real-time
                reporting of engine trouble
              • Easy integration with 3rd party systems and
                applications
              • Lower total cost of fleet ownership and exceptional
                return on investment

              Interested?

              Write to us at emo@cgi.com or
              visit our website www.cgi.com
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Website: www.cginederland.nl
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