Road Tech continues Tachomaster investment

Road Tech has invested a mammoth £900,000 in a fourth server room as part of the continuous expansion of their Tachomaster infrastructure. The additional capacity comes fully online at the beginning of next week.

Managing Director Derek Beevor said, “We have now achieved our aim of having enough power and capacity for Tachomaster to deal with every digital tachograph record in Europe.”

The new server room comprises of some thirty-two high capacity servers with 142 CPUs and 274 hard disks, giving 123Tb (the equivalent capacity of around 250,000 CDs) of high quality, ultra resilient and fast storage. What’s more, all the equipment is duplicated in a separate building at Road Tech’s Shenley Hall offices. Each building can run independently of the other with its own power supply, diesel generators and connectivity to ensure true disaster recovery.

Beevor explained just why Tachomaster needs such a vast and powerful network, “We need this level of muscle because Tachomaster customers are given a much more sophisticated service than standard analysis bureaux have been able to offer.

“Tachomaster doesn’t just analyse your Tachographs and send you infringement letters and a report several days or even weeks later. It’s unique because it really is a live, real-time system where you can instantly analyse both your analogue and digital data. You can also immediately browse, interrogate and drill down through your information.

“When a company uses Tachomaster everyone can log in from anywhere with Internet access. The Head Office can see the whole operation at a glance and each Depot Manager can see their depot. In fact, if they choose to, a company can give every driver a personal login to enable them to view their own records from home.

“No other tachograph service has the capacity to offer this.”