Morey Corporation, a company providing comprehensive design, engineering, manufacturing, and testing services, announced substantial improvements to its Rugged TRAX MT-13, a well-established, telematics-based fleet management product.

The Rugged TRAX MT-13 is ideal for light-to-medium duty fleet owners and operators as well as application service providers or "ASPs" that serve the market.

The enhanced MT-13 features an accelerometer that improves the value of the MT-13 by supplementing accessible information with more event data that can be user-programmed for different thresholds based on individual asset use applications, the company said.

The acceleration is a 3-axis threshold-set trigger. The threshold is set in 'Gs' or gravities. If, for example, the trigger is set for .5 Gs, then any event, either acceleration or deceleration, exceeding .5 Gs in any of the three axes will trip the accelerometer.  

The accelerator capability is useful for applications like crash event, rapid acceleration/deceleration detection and reporting and driver behavior.

The new Garmin (News - Alert) Fleet Management Interface in MT-13 enables development of a complete fleet management solution in conjunction with Garmin portable navigation devices. Dispatch system integration and two-way messaging are ideal applications.

The idle detection feature enables development of applications to report low/no speed thresholds over a configurable period of time. Important applications of this feature are monitoring driver behavior and fuel efficiency.

Backup battery supplies backup power and up to 1,000 messages in event of vehicle battery outage. Voltage monitoring and low battery notification are possible with the MT-13.

'MOREY's MT-13 is a feature-packed, low cost solution that goes beyond simple asset track and trace to higher level monitoring functions and combines rugged dependability with flexible over-the-air programmability and configuration,' Dana Morey, executive vice president for MOREY, said.

According to Morey, the Rugged TRAX MT-13 can dramatically increase fleet productivity and accountability and help fleet owners fully utilize, track, and maintain their equipment.

MT-13 has strong set of standard features, which include GPS-based motion detection, Ignition Sense, Quad-Band GSM Network Support, Virtual Odometer, Storage & Forward of Data when out of network coverage, Status Monitoring & Event Management, up to six Geofences, Java Programming Environment, Message Buffering and Over the Air Programming.

Rugged TRAX MT-13 combines the legendary ruggedness, reliability, and superior quality that MOREY is famous for, but at a competitive price. MT-13 uses the latest in wireless communication and GPS technology, company officials said.

The rugged enclosure follows IP65 standards. Its compact design, with internal GPS & GSM antennas, makes it easy to install.

Earlier in March Morey Corporation and X PRIZE Foundation announced a unique partnership to benefit the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, a $10 million competition designed to inspire a new generation of viable, safe and super fuel-efficient vehicles.