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Practical guides on fleet management, delivery, and Saudi compliance — written by the team building the platform itself.

Delivery & Logistics
Delivery & Logistics

Choosing a dispatch system for your e-commerce delivery operation

Practical criteria for choosing an e-commerce dispatch system in Saudi Arabia: order lifecycle, COD settlement, customer experience, WASL and ZATCA readiness.

9 min read
Technology
Technology

The sensor abstraction layer: from raw volts to calibrated weight and multi-zone temperature

How raw voltage from a tracking device becomes calibrated weight and multi-zone temperature: Pixa's sensor abstraction layer, formulas, and calibration tables.

7 min read
Compliance
Compliance

Tamper-evident audit logs: why fleets and auditors need them

Plain event logs versus hash-chained tamper-evident audit logs, explained for fleet operators: delivery disputes, sealed statements and auditor questions.

8 min read
Fuel
Fuel

Multi-tank monitoring: reefer units, generators, and auxiliary tanks

Fuel money leaks from the secondary tanks nobody watches. A practical architecture: a sensor, calibration table, and alert rules per tank, measured in hours.

7 min read
Tracking & Fleets
Tracking & Fleets

Reading your fleet reports: a tour of 29 ready reports

A working tour of 29 ready fleet reports — 17 vehicle and 12 facility level — in Arabic and English, Hijri and Gregorian, PDF and Excel, with scheduling.

8 min read
Business
Business

Fleet insurance and UBI risk scores: pricing from your own data (coming soon)

What usage-based insurance means for fleets, how driving-behavior data becomes a risk score, and how to prepare today before this coming-soon feature arrives.

6 min read
Video & Safety
Video & Safety

Cybersecurity in telematics platforms: MFA, tenant isolation, audit chains

Why telematics platforms are high-value targets, and the controls that matter: server-enforced MFA, database-level tenant isolation, tamper-proof audit chains.

8 min read
Tracking & Fleets
Tracking & Fleets

Trip replay: rewatch any workday with speed coloring and events

Trip replay puts any workday back on the map with speed coloring, stops, and events, settling complaints, incidents, and disputes in minutes instead of hours.

6 min read
Compliance
Compliance

ZATCA-compliant e-invoicing for tracking and fleet businesses

E-invoicing for fleet businesses in practice: subscriptions, contracting statements, COD settlements and dealer billing — built on sealed operational data.

7 min read
Technology
Technology

Fleet alerts on WhatsApp: the channel operations managers actually read

Why WhatsApp is the alert channel fleet managers actually read: Pixa's five channels, rules-engine escalation, and three switchable business providers.

6 min read
Tracking & Fleets
Tracking & Fleets

7 practical geofencing use cases in fleet management

Seven practical geofencing use cases for fleets: after-hours security, speed zones, dwell-time control, automatic contract trip counting and delivery coverage.

7 min read
Fuel
Fuel

Actual vs standard fuel consumption: spotting the over-consumers in your fleet

How to build a per-vehicle fuel baseline, measure actual consumption from sensors and trips, and read deviation patterns to separate drivers, faults, and theft.

7 min read
Delivery & Logistics
Delivery & Logistics

Public order-tracking links: fewer where-is-my-order calls

Public order-tracking links cut where-is-my-order calls and support load: what a good tracking page shows, how notifications fit in, and how to roll it out.

6 min read
Business
Business

Prepaid wallets and tiered tariffs: Gulf-style fleet billing models

Why postpaid fleet billing breaks down, and how prepaid wallets with automatic suspend and release, tiered tariffs, and ZATCA e-invoicing keep cash flowing.

7 min read
Tracking & Fleets
Tracking & Fleets

Driver behavior and penalty-point scoring: from events to coaching

From harsh-driving events to fair penalty points and one-on-one coaching: a practical framework for a driver behavior program that measures and improves.

8 min read
Video & Safety
Video & Safety

The accident evidence pack: video, track, and speed at impact

Minutes after a crash: how to assemble impact video, a speed-colored track, sensor readings, and driver identity into one archivable evidence pack.

6 min read
Fuel
Fuel

Fuel level sensors: types, calibration tables, and noise smoothing

A practical comparison of capacitive, ultrasonic, and CAN bus fuel sensing, with steps to build an accurate per-tank calibration table and tune noise smoothing.

8 min read
Technology
Technology

Teltonika Codec 8: how sensor and CAN data reaches the platform

Inside Teltonika Codec 8 and Codec 8 Extended: AVL record structure, IO elements, and how an abstraction layer turns raw values into calibrated sensors.

8 min read
Compliance
Compliance

Cold chain and multi-zone temperature reporting in SFDA inspection format

Build a multi-zone temperature record that answers SFDA inspection questions: calibrated sensors, alerts with escalation, and a PDF report ready in minutes.

8 min read
Business
Business

Contractor haulage statements: from manual counts to sealed cycles

How contractor haulage statements move from disputed manual counts to geofence-based automatic counting and sealed accounting cycles issued in PDF and Excel.

8 min read
Delivery & Logistics
Delivery & Logistics

COD done right: courier collection and settlement without leaks

A practical guide to cash on delivery: the COD lifecycle from collection to courier settlement, where cash leaks start, and the controls that stop them.

8 min read
Tracking & Fleets
Tracking & Fleets

Engine idling: the hidden cost draining your fuel budget

Engine idling burns fuel and engine hours without a single kilometer. How to measure it, separate justified idle, and cut it with policy, alerts, and reports.

7 min read
Tracking & Fleets
Tracking & Fleets

Choosing a GPS tracker: Teltonika vs GT06 vs OBD — a practical comparison

A practical fleet comparison of GPS trackers: advanced Teltonika units, budget GT06 devices and plug-in OBD trackers — and why protocol support decides.

7 min read
Video & Safety
Video & Safety

ADAS and DSM cameras: drowsiness and phone-distraction as decoded events

How drowsiness and phone-distraction alerts from ADAS and DSM cameras arrive as decoded events with evidence attachments, rules, and instant alerts.

7 min read
Fuel
Fuel

How to detect fuel theft in your fleet by volume, time, and location

Practical guide to detecting fleet fuel theft: how drains are identified by volume, time, and location, and how calibrated sensors turn suspicion into evidence.

7 min read
Business
Business

White-label dealer programs: build your tracking business on a ready platform

A practical guide to white-label vehicle-tracking dealership: the multi-tenant model, build-vs-buy economics, and billing design that protects dealer margins.

7 min read
Tracking & Fleets
Tracking & Fleets

What is AVL vehicle tracking and how it works end to end

A plain guide to AVL vehicle tracking: how data travels from the tracker through protocol decoding to a live map, and why Saudi fleets now depend on it.

8 min read
Compliance
Compliance

WASL requirements for the operating card: the complete fleet-owner guide

A fleet-owner guide to WASL and the operating card: registering company, vehicles and drivers via a tracking provider, then monitoring acceptance rates.

7 min read
Video & Safety
Video & Safety

Video telematics: what to know before installing vehicle cameras

A practical pre-installation guide to vehicle cameras: JT/T 1078, live streaming over HLS/WebRTC, retrieving clips from device memory, and retention policy.

7 min read
Delivery & Logistics
Delivery & Logistics

Multi-stop route optimization that respects prayer times

How multi-stop route optimization that respects prayer times works in practice, and why it matters for delivery operations in Saudi Arabia. A field guide.

7 min read
Tracking & Fleets
Tracking & Fleets

A practical guide to cutting fleet operating costs with telematics data

A practical guide to cutting fleet operating costs with telematics data: fuel, preventive maintenance, driver behavior, and a measurable 90-day plan.

8 min read
Technology
Technology

JT808 explained: China's national standard for tracking devices

JT808 in practice: message framing, the registration and authentication lifecycle, the JT/T 1078 video extension, and how Pixa supports it today.

8 min read