Project
Smart Driver Pass
Today individual procedures and solutions with badges and identity cards often lead to loss of time and higher costs. Every company and site has its own pasports, security passes, etc… With this project VIL wishes to unite these solutions into one accessible application.
A smartphone application which is linked to databases (with information on the driver, vehicle and transport order), will be an easy to use alternative, that will not only provide a solution for many smaller loading and unloading zones, but also be more efficient and safe.
The current systems focus mainly on safety and access control, while the VIL app will have many more extra functionalities with added value, e.g. pre-arrival notifications, notifictations of drivers who are already registered, identification in case of night deliveries, notifications of emergencies, etc.
In the design of this app, VIL will strive for maximum interoperability with existing systems.
The SDP solution consists of a smartphone application that is linked to a backend platform, the SDP Portal, and contains information about drivers, vehicles, transport orders, sites and forwarders.
SDP uses 3D live facial recognition via the smartphone running on the SDP app.
The Smart Driver Pass app was field tested in four proof of concepts. For all parties involved, the efficiency gain of a registration proces by sharing information in advance between the driver/carrier and the company site was clear.
A unique value of SDP is that the system can connect to a more extensive (European) databases in which more drivers are managed and with more data available.
For sites without any automation, the SDP Portal is a useful tool to monitor planned movements to the site. The portal provides insight into which truck (with information from the carrier, the driver, the planned time and any additional documents) will arrive at the site.
It is clear that the added value of SDP are the integration possibilities with other systems, but also that it can serve as a backend for the identification drivers in other applications.