Australian Made Pool Vehicle Booking System

Sensium’s pool vehicle booking system makes managing your share cars easy and efficient.

Sensium’s advanced, Australian-Made GPS fleet telematics hardware gives you complete control over your vehicles, and our pool vehicle booking system in Sensium Connect streamlines the management of your share cars.

  • Optimise and "right-size" your fleet

  • Real-time EV management

  • Reduce your fleet

Screen of Sensium’s pool vehicle booking system which makes managing your share cars easy and efficient.

Why Sensium is Australia’s leading fleet management software

Managing your pool cars doesn’t need to be difficult. Using Outlook or paper-based systems is tricky and could open up legal liability issues. Sensium’s easy-to-use pool vehicle booking system can help you manage your loan cars efficiently, which will save you time, money and frustration.

Simple setup.
Set and forget.
Freedom.

Sensium pool vehicle booking dashboard

Easy to use pool vehicle booking.

The benefits of Sensium’s pool vehicle booking solution

Take advantage of our nearly 20-years of local development and manufacturing of fleet telematics, fleet management, GPS hardware, software and fleet services.

Electronic Key Locker
Choose to store all your keys in a Key Watcher for safe-keeping.

Book from anywhere
Your staff can book a car from the app or their desktop.

Use an app or ID card
Get started today with our app-only version or have complete control over access with our card reader and other hardware.

Real-time EV status
Monitor all your EVs at once: location, battery state of charge and who’s driving the vehicle.

  • If you’re currently running your pool car bookings in Outlook or another method not designed for the task, we can help you. Not only can we make your pool vehicle booking management easier and more efficient, we can help you “right-size” your fleet by calculating exactly how many vehicles you actually need.

  • From September 2024, Sensium’s AI will be able to allocate vehicle based on utilisation. That means the system will automatically allocate vehicles after analysing a number of factors and determining which vehicle should be used. Factors include (but are not limited to) engine type, odometer, lease restrictions, asset field, last driven, cost centre/fleet. This method of vehicle allocation will reduce fleet costs and spread usage across vehicles.

  • Sensium’s Pool Vehicle Booking software can allocate the “right” vehicle for the job. If you need a ute, or a tow bar, or room for 5 passengers, the software will book just the right vehicle, spreading the load across the fleet and making utilisation more efficient.

  • Split your vehicles up into different fleets and make them available to specific cost centres, restricting who uses the vehicles.

  • If you use a vehicle on Tuesdays between 10am and 11am, you won’t have to enter a new booking each time. The recurring booking feature (coming June 2024) will allow you book once and let it recur as required.

  • Sensium’s Pool Vehicle Booking system with hardware offers lots of advantages (such as remote locking/unlocking and battery monitoring) but you can get started with our “app-only” version, with no hardware installation required. Staff can make, start, and end bookings with an app

  • If you’re obliged to track which passenger is in which vehicle, you can do that with Sensium’s pool vehicle booking system. And we keep the data archived, so you’ll be able to access it into the future.

  • From July 2024 you’ll be able to ensure drivers only have access to specific fleets. If someone doesn’t have authority to drive forklifts, you can block their access.

  • Sensium’s pool car booking system allows you to choose how you’d like your staff to access the vehicles. If you’d like an “app-only” system where staff keep using keys, no problem! If you’d like to install hardware, the system can be set up, so staff access the vehicle by swiping their ID card, or fob on a card reader. This keyless entry method allows you track and manage who’s accessing which car.

  • Managing keys is one of the hardest parts of running a fleet. You can secure your keys in one safe place with a Key Watcher key cabinet or leave them in the vehicle and access with a keyless entry method. Combine bookings with a Key Watcher key cabinet and guarantee the right driver uses the right car every time.

  • Some fleet managers prefer to have drivers access vehicles using their ID cards or fobs. When the card reader is swiped it starts the booking, unlocks the vehicle and alerts the fleet manager that the driver has taken control of the vehicle.

  • Bookings that fall into the standard operating procedure can be approved automatically. Bookings that require special permission, such as taking a car overnight, can (from August 2024) be made to require fleet manager approval.

  • Fleet managers need to know critical vehicle indicators, such as battery state of charge and fuel level. Combined with a Sensium TRACKbox installed in a car, the fleet manager can have instant oversight of the vehicle, including if it is locked/unlocked at the end of the day.

TRACKbox component image

Sensium TRACKbox Telematics & Vehicle Tracking Hardware

  • Sensium is now certified Australian Made.

  • Our hardware is manufactured in Brisbane.

  • Our software is designed in Brisbane.

  • All data remains resident in Australia and isn’t accessible to foreign actors.

Sensium’s TRACKbox assists fleet managers to measure, monitor and take action to protect their vehicles and drivers. The TRACKbox is a fundamental part of Sensium’s fleet management offering. With a TRACKbox installed, you have more control over your vehicles for your pool booking arrangement.

The vehicle’s location, speed, heading, engine hours, idle time, CAN bus telematics, and driver behaviour attached to a DriverID are all monitored and recorded for analysis. When installed with a keyless entry module, the TRACKbox allows you to more easily manage remote locking and unlocking of your cars.

CTST, Tasmania staff and car with Sensium fleet telematics

CTST, Tasmania

Customer Success Story

Fleet managers around Australia and New Zealand are benefitting from Sensium’s Pool Vehicle Booking system. CTST, Tasmania's trusted Community Transport provider for more than 30 years, recently switched over to Sensium after being with a competing product for years.

Background
CTST has nearly 100 vehicles that are shared between multiple drivers. They needed a better way to manage their vehicle bookings.

Problem
CTST needed a simple and efficient pool car management system, so staff and volunteers could book vehicles appropriate for the task at hand.

Solution
CTST transitioned all of their pool cars across to Sensium’s booking platform in 2024, allowing staff to make bookings from their desktop or mobile devices. CTST also uses the keyless entry module to make things even easier.

Success
CTST was able to transition across to the Sensium fleet management platform quickly, and the ease-of-use of the product meant staff didn’t have a steep learning curve. As a result, the organisation was able to enjoy fleet efficiencies and administrative cost savings, while freeing up management hours.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Pool vehicle booking software can create great efficiencies and cost savings for your fleet. Prices for our solution start at $10 per vehicle, per month (call for details) but remember: we’ll save you admin time and the software will help shape the “right-size” of your fleet, which can save you tens of thousands of dollars.

  • The pool vehicle booking software is designed in Brisbane, Australia. Further, our TRACKbox hardware (that works in conjunction with the pool vehicle software) is manufactured in Brisbane.

  • Many organisations are either obliged to comply with or choose to comply with data residency laws. That means no part of the software can have data transmitted outside of Australia. Security is Sensium’s biggest strength, and your data will always be stored only on servers in Sydney. It’s critical you interrogate the veracity of data residency claims from other suppliers, as they are known to use product add-ons that can’t completely satisfy data residency requirements.

  • You’re more than welcome to contact us for a chat, or a demo. We’ve also written a comprehensive guide so you can better understand how pool vehicle booking systems can improve the efficiency of your fleet. Pool Vehicle Booking Guide

  • We’ve designed our share car management software to be as easy to use, and as intuitive, as possible. We don’t think you’ll need more than a short video to get up and running but we are more than happy to provide training if you’d like it.

  • We have free email and phone support available through extended trading hours.

  • Yes, you can use the pool vehicle booking solution on any vehicle. If you’d like to use the “app only” version, there’s no hardware to install. You can choose to install a TRACKbox telematics device for more functionality and, additionally, a keyless entry module. All the hardware can be removed when you swap or sell the vehicle.

  • Any shared vehicle (from lawn mowers to yellow plant to buses to jet skis) can be managed through Sensium’s pool vehicle booking system.

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Let’s have a chat about your fleet management requirements. Please call 1800 353 384 or complete the form below.

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