Hertz Italia has adopted Targa Telematics’ Smart Vehicle Protector solution to help prevent theft and keep its fleet secure.

Massimiliano Balbo di Vinadio, vice president sales LA of Targa Telematics

Smart Vehicle Protector is the latest addition to Targa’s Stolen Vehicle Recovery solution, already successfully adopted by Hertz Italia under its 10-year partnership with Targa Telematics.

Thanks to the adoption of increasingly advanced technologies based on artificial intelligence and machine learning, the asset protection service gains predictive features that allow preventive and proactive intervention to prevent theft or misappropriation from occurring.

The adoption of the service has allowed Hertz Italia to significantly reduce the damage caused by theft and misappropriation, retaining the value of the individual vehicles in the fleet.

The company has calculated that the implementation of the new Targa Telematics service has allowed it to obtain a recovery rate of stolen vehicles of up to 95%.

Massimo Scantamburlo, CEO and general manager of Hertz Italy, said: “The data speak for themselves; the services that Targa Telematics makes available to us are state-of-the-art, based on the latest technologies and are absolutely targeted. For companies like ours with large fleets, it is vital to protect assets from risks and in these 10 years of collaboration we have learned a lot from each other.”

Massimiliano Balbo di Vinadio, vice president sales LA of Targa Telematics, said: “The collaboration with Hertz Italia, which has been going on for over 10 years, is a virtuous example of how a long-term technological partnership can generate tangible and lasting value. Together we have built an evolutionary path that has allowed us not only to face new challenges, but also to anticipate them, developing increasingly advanced and tailor-made solutions.”

Smart Vehicle Protector delivers an advanced predictive analysis system able to prevent potential theft through intelligent monitoring of different risk factors. The system analyses and correlates a range of key information in real time. These include detection of abnormal behaviour through geofencing and analysis of usual routes. The system also takes into account any reports from the security manager relating to previous incidents, violations or abnormal behaviour of the drivers, without disclosing confidential information.

Insolvency reports are also factored in and the system cross-references information relating to previous non-payments of rental fees, using them as an additional parameter for the identification of potential risks.

All this information is processed and transformed into immediate alerts for operators, allowing rapid and effective intervention in the prevention of vehicle theft.

The technological solution that Targa Telematics provides to Hertz Italia also includes the services of the 24/7 Operations Centre, which analyses information and intervenes in the event of theft, collaborating with law enforcement for the timely recovery of the vehicle.