Over 600 FPDat units have been sold and are used by forestry businesses and contractors.
FPInnovations indicate that their FPDat and FPTrak operations tracking platform is enjoying success. Since it was launched in 2011, over 600 FPDat units have been sold and are used by forestry businesses and contractors to increase the efficiency of their operations. The platform also supports the tracking of machines equipped with MultiDAT units. Over 800 machines are tracked in 48 forestry operations throughout Canada. FPInnovations has been continuing to enhance the platform by adding new functionalities and improving its performance. The commercial aspects (sales, parts, first-line support) are now fully managed by their distributors, which cover all of Canada.
During the 2015, FPInnovations have been fine-tuning the application for forestry trucks (FPDat Transport) and graders (FPDat Grader), and integrating data input from the on-board computers of forestry equipment. In the case of FPDat Transport, over 30 prototypes are now installed all over Canada and a new lot of 50 units is currently in production. A number of functionalities related to FPTrak's transport application have been added or enhanced, and particularly, the automated calculation of cycle times and transport cycle analysis by geozone. For the FPDat Grader, FPInnovations have integrated a blade-mounted vibration sensor, which helps enhance the reports on this application in FPTrak. At the present time, they are completing the development of automatic updating of road system conditions on the map of the FPDat unit in the grader. In this way, the operators will be able to focus their efforts on areas requiring the most maintenance.
FPInnovations is also making advances in processing data input from the on-board computers of forestry equipment. In many CTL (shortwood) machines or roadside processors, the heads are controlled by computers that record detailed data about production and work hours. We are striving to receive this data in FPTrak in order to use it in various reports. Collaborative efforts are currently under way with a number of equipment manufacturers. Source: https://fpinnovations.ca/MediaCentre/Newsletters/FPSolutions/2015/06-November/FO_other_FPDat_en.html