Masternaut’s market leading advanced vehicle tracking solution awarded SIS LIVE contract
SIS LIVE provides outside broadcast facilities to top broadcasters including BBC, ITV and BSKYB
Real-time data will help SIS LIVE to increase fleet visibility across Europe
Masternaut, the UK’s largest provider of online telematics services, has announced the implementation of its Masternaut vehicle tracking and fleet management platform into all outside broadcast vehicles operated by SIS LIVE. SIS LIVE, whose customers include the BBC, ITV and BSKYB, will use the real-time fleet data to increase visibility over fleet operations critical to managing vehicle and event allocation.
SIS LIVE is Europe’s largest supplier of outside broadcast (OB) facilities and satellite uplinks. It covers many of the worlds biggest sporting, music and entertainment events, including the London Marathon, Glastonbury Festival, Wimbledon Championships, Top Gear and European football. SIS LIVE’s wide portfolio of products and services also includes Internet Service provision and the design and manufacture of award-winning products such as the uPod Micro satellite uplink. The company has been awarded the contract to cover the XIX Commonwealth Games in Delhi in October.
Masternaut’s Masternaut has been deployed to allow SIS LIVE to manage three significant areas of fleet management including real-time fleet visibility, equipment maintenance scheduling and security.
“SIS LIVE operates a large fleet to tight schedules, therefore the ability to provide accurate vehicle location information in real-time is crucial to operational efficiency. SIS LIVE will deploy Masternaut as part of its integrated fleet management operations”. Commented Steve Senior, Technical Services Manager, SIS LIVE.
“The nature of our business means our OB vehicles can be deployed world-wide to cover any event. We need to be confident that an OB vehicle currently covering a sporting event in Turkey, for example, will be back in the UK in time to attend a music festival in the UK – early notification of potential problems allows us to plan and schedule our vehicles dynamically” commented Steve Senior, Technical Services Manager, SIS LIVE.
“We are additionally linking Masternaut location information to confidently schedule availability for planned maintenance work needed on our broadcast technical equipment.” SIS LIVE also operates the largest uplink fleet in Europe supporting the news gathering operations of all of the major UK broadcasters providing services for 80% of the UK’s mobile news uplinks.
“Masternaut can assist us allocating the nearest resource to the location of a story enabling us to streamline vehicle allocation and provide real-time updates for our clients” concluded Senior.