The missing link in driver safety, Connected Fleet Safety integrates telematics, agentic AI and Microsoft 365 to manage WHS business risk and bolster safer, smarter fleet management across Australia

Wagga Wagga, 24 March 2026 – Zetifi, an Australian wireless company that designs and manufactures smart antennas for cellular and radio devices with market-leading design, quality, and performance, has launched a new proprietary platform which helps organisations with distributed and mobile workforces manage driver safety and WHS risk by turning safety signals into action, records, and evidence.

Zetifi’s new Connected Fleet Safety platform is built on Geotab GO9 telematics, Geotab GO Focus Plus AI-powered video and Microsoft 365 workflows and integrates with Zetifi policy mapping, workflow design, agentic AI, and tuning.  It helps organisations move beyond tracking and alerts to deliver policy-driven safety action, follow-up and evidence.  It works through Microsoft-native workflows connecting vehicle, driver and field signals to alerts, actions, reporting and evidence within the systems teams already in use.

As a result, a risk event such as an employee using a mobile phone while driving, for example, is detected and automatically triggers the right alert, assigns follow-up actions and creates a record of response within Microsoft-native agentic workflows.  Key features include AI-powered cameras and telematics and near real-time alerts that prompt action, clear reporting that shows trends, behaviours and emerging risk as well as structured evidence that support compliance and governance.

Ideal for industries with elevated vehicle and remote-worker risk, including agriculture, mining, utilities, construction, transport, and local government, key solution features which help put safety policy into practice with minimal additional manual effort include:

Connected fleet safety 

Positioned as an operational safety layer, Connected Fleet Safety helps organisations turn risk signals into response, follow-up and evidence, not just detection.  Specifically, the platform turns signals into:

• Alerts when action is required
• Tasks and follow-up workflows
• Reports for review
• Records and evidence for compliance

Policy-driven safety, applied in real operations

Organisations can apply their existing WHS safety policies consistently without adding manual effort.  Policy is embedded into agentic workflows, guiding what happens next, capturing required actions and creating a clear record of response.

Built to work inside Microsoft environments

The platform integrates directly with Microsoft 365, allowing teams to manage alerts, actions and records within familiar tools. This reduces friction and avoids the need for additional standalone systems.

Built from connected safety signals

Connected Fleet Safety is powered by inputs from telematics, AI-powered cameras, smart antennas and two-way radios.  Zetifi’s partnerships with Geotab and Icom, alongside its own hardware, APIs and integrations, bring safety signals into a single operational workflow model.  While telematics remains an important data source, the value is in how that data is used to drive action and evidence.

Expanding differentiation: policy-driven agentic AI and Microsoft-native workflows

Zetifi is evolving towards policy-driven agentic AI and Microsoft-native workflows that help interpret events, apply policy, guide next steps and reduce manual review.  This improves consistency, reduces admin load and strengthens safety outcomes over time.

“Australian fleets don’t need more disconnected alerts, says Dan Winson, CEO, Zetifi.“ They need a practical way to turn vehicle and worker safety signals into action, follow-up and proof. As a result, we have developed Connected Fleet Safety for operationalising safety, not just monitoring it. The result is that we are helping organisations work where they already work, while improving safety outcomes.

“Ultimately, what makes Connected Fleet Safety different is that it does more than track vehicles or raise alarms. It helps organisations respond more consistently across fleet safety and lone worker safety, within the workflows they already use. Our goal is simple – fewer incidents, less disruption and more people home safe.”

Availability

The platform is live, with Connected Fleet Safety pilots already deployed in Australia and broader rollout underway.

Zetifi will showcase its Connected Fleet Safety Solution at the Workplace Health & Safety Show in Brisbane on 25-26 March at booth number G08.

About Zetifi

Zetifi is an Australian wireless technology company designing award-winning Smart Antennas and connected fleet safety solutions. Combining advanced antenna engineering, onboard electronics and cloud integration, Zetifi connects vehicle, radio and field safety signals to agentic workflows, alerts and evidence for connected fleet safety and lone worker safety.  For further information, please visit https://www.zetifi.com/ or https://www.zetifi.com/connected-fleet-safety

Source: Using technology to safeguard the mental health of mobile and field workers‍

Australia is a big country and travelling long distances on deserted roads is all in a day’s work for many mobile and field workers. So is toiling in isolated locations, miles and hours from towns and cities, as many agricultural and resources sector employees do.

While mobile phone coverage has improved in recent times, it’s still far from universal. Black spots remain plentiful in rural and remote locations.

Knowing you’re out of phone range is not a pleasant feeling. For lone workers travelling and working solo, it can mean being stranded by the side of the road for hours or even days, should they experience a breakdown or face other dangers such as human or animal aggression, an unfortunate medical event, or seasonal climate disaster.

And, in the event of a collision or industrial accident, they may well find themselves seriously injured and unable to raise the alarm that they need help urgently.

On the road and on your own

Fortunately, businesses are becoming alert to the fact that knowing they’re off the grid can be extremely stressful for workers. Over time, that stress can have a harmful effect on mental health and wellbeing.

Given mental health is the leading cause of absence and long-term incapacity in the workplace — it costs the Australian economy as much as $220 billion annually, by the Productivity Commission’s reckoning — there’s a clear imperative for businesses to take practical steps to promote worker safety and wellbeing wherever they can.

Doing so is both socially responsible and commercially smart. In recent years, states have strengthened regulatory frameworks around psycho-social hazards; putting the onus squarely on businesses to identify, mitigate and manage them. In fact, directors who fail to take sufficient steps to safeguard workers’ psycho-social wellbeing may find themselves held personally liable for adverse consequences that arise as a result.

Turning to technology to boost worker wellbeing

That’s where technology has an important role to play. It can ensure lone workers, however remote their location, are not left feeling like they’re out there on their own.

Devices today can sense worker environments, deliver precise location awareness and create intelligent connections between devices, systems and people, via connectivity, telematics and applications including lone worker duress and safety alarm tools.

The signals they detect and transmit can be swiftly and seamlessly interpreted and forwarded to key personnel responsible for instigating an immediate and appropriate response.

That’s not always possible when a lone worker is solely reliant on their mobile phone to summon aid. As a safeguarding system, it’s far too vulnerable to single point failure. Should the network drop out, for example, or the phone malfunction, there’s no Plan B for getting word back to base.

Instead, what’s needed are two things:

1. An improvement in reliability where possible, extending coverage, and better high-quality devices, but this only takes you so far.
2. Redundancy, which is infinitely more achievable because no matter how high the quality of a device or network, things can and do go wrong.

However, ultimately, you need a back-up plan, including the use of antennas able to provide back-up signalling methods and back-up connectivity, so if a worker’s phone isn’t working it can get critical information out. Seamless integration with third party applications, such as telematics, can also be a game changer. This can provide businesses with highly accurate collision data on sudden stops and vehicle impact, along with the ability for workers to check in regularly and send an SOS via cabin-mounted and portable duress buttons.

Efficient incident management

If the technology array that’s adopted integrates seamlessly with low-code tools and systems, monitoring and managing remote worker activity can be highly efficient and cost effective. Indeed, by drawing on existing organisational structures, citizen developers can create customised workflows that ensure the right people are alerted, based on the nature of the data received.

Emerging agentic AI capabilities today also enable users to build intelligent virtual agents that can make decisions and issue instructions autonomously, around the clock. In effect, that means someone’s in the office, all the time, looking out for lone workers who are on the road and in the field.

Taking care of the team physically and mentally

Irrespective of the industry, a healthy, high-performing workforce will always be any organisation’s greatest asset. Whether they’re in the office or out on the road alone, it’s vital that steps are taken to show the team the company has their back. Having access to intelligent antenna technology that allows them to share their location and signal for assistance means they can get on with the job, secure in the knowledge they’ll receive speedy support whenever it’s needed.

If providing a mobile workforce with greater peace of mind is a priority, it’s an investment that will stand any business in excellent stead.

Source: Fleet Managers Need To Address Their ESG Metrics In 2026

Warwick Clancy, Chief Operating Officer at Zetifi, discusses why fleet managers must better understand and act on environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics in 2026.

From July 1 this year, mid-sized enterprises, defined as those with annual revenue greater than $200 million or more than 250 staff, will have to join the top end of town in reporting their ESG efforts.

Another year on, on 1 July 2027, it will be the turn of the next tier down – businesses with $50 million revenue and more than 100 staff.

The legislation has put the onus on businesses to take action and prove they’re doing so.

That means developing a rigorous Environmental, Social and Governance framework and policies, measuring the success of activities to promote optimal social outcomes and reduce the entity’s footprint on the planet, and disclosing progress across all aspects of operations via an annual sustainability report.

Focusing on fleet efficiency

For businesses which run sizeable fleets, minimising their vehicles’ impact on the environment makes excellent sense and it’s an area where progress can be measured and built on in real time, not just reported annually.

Putting formal policies in place that mandate employees drive to conditions and avoid speeding can enable them to create a collective difference over the long term.

That’s because it’s been proven that smooth, safe driving results in lower fuel consumption, fewer incidents and accidents, and reduced wear and tear on vehicles.

Efforts to minimise risky and inefficient driving are more likely to be effective if aberrant behaviours are detected in real time and offending drivers prompted to correct them.

Carbon emissions can be cut by this and other straightforward measures, such as reducing vehicle idling time and facilitating carpooling for workers who need to travel to the same location at the same time.

Measuring what matters

Making changes such as these – and demonstrating you’ve done so – necessitates having access to up-to-date insights into how workers behave when they’re behind the wheel of company cars, utility vehicles and mobile machinery, as well as information on the condition and fuel consumption of those vehicles.

That’s where technology has a vital role to play.  When fitted to vehicles, connected trackers and telemetric devices can sense their environments, deliver precise location awareness, capture granular data on how those vehicles are being driven, and create intelligent connections between devices, systems and people.

The signals devices detect and transmit can be sent to the corporate governance team who can use that intelligence to develop comprehensive ESG metrics for the company fleet.

The evidence generated can, for example, be used to build detailed pictures of driver behaviour; identifying individuals who regularly exceed the speed limit and those whose driving patterns are erratic or unsafe.

Interventions can be triggered once pre-determined thresholds have been reached and evidence of offending drivers’ subsequent behavioural changes measured and documented in Environmental and Governance reporting.

Fuel consumption and usage data can also be captured regularly and married with service and repair histories, for every vehicle in the fleet.

Using data to drive ESG improvements

Once in possession of these insights, an ESG team can develop a comprehensive set of fleet metrics and then instigate initiatives to improve them.

A compliance program for individuals who regularly drive unsafely can, for example, be an effective means of modifying their behaviour behind the wheel.

The detection of a risk event in real time means they can be given immediate feedback followed by coaching and counselling, to prevent a recurrence of the incident.

For example, should an employee contravene their employer’s ‘no mobile phone use while driving’ policy, their vehicle’s telemetrics system could detect the breach, prompt a correction, alert their manager, log the real time coaching that occurred and preserve the evidence for ESG reporting purposes.

In the long term, such positive actions can reduce fuel consumption and vehicle wear and tear while lowering the risk of incidents and injuries for the individuals involved and those with whom they share the road.

That’s a social outcome that’s in everyone’s interest, given the devastating impact of serious and fatal accidents on families and communities.

Meanwhile, having the capability to monitor lone worker settings and respond quickly to incidents involving danger and duress make for a significantly safer working environment.

Driving ESG improvements in 2026 and beyond

Monitoring and improving sustainability is a moral imperative for responsible Australian enterprises of all stripes and sizes and a legal one for many.

Fleet operations offer one of the clearest pathways from policy to measurable proof, at a time when reporting expectations demand greater transparency and defensibility.

The smart deployment of tracker and telemetric technology can help businesses reduce the environmental impact of their fleet vehicles, while creating safer conditions for employees and other drivers on the road.

It enables them to not only measure their vehicle emissions but to show the actions they’ve taken to minimise them, while at the same time safeguarding workers and the public.

If increasing transparency, managing risk and demonstrating solid environmental and social credentials is important to your business this year, it’s an excellent addition to the company toolkit.

Zetifi’s Smart Antenna platform combines high-performance UHF and 4G/5G antennas with Bluetooth tracking and GPS logging, offering seamless integration into existing telematics platforms.

It delivers the kind of infrastructure needed for real-time carbon accounting and verifiable sustainability metrics as ESG reporting shifts from voluntary to mandatory.