Shaw Tracking, formerly Cancom, is prepared for the possible mandate of electronic on-board recorders (EOBR’s) using new or existing OmniTRACS equipment. Although the company recently introduced the all-new OmniVision system, older units — as old as 17 years — have not been obsoleted.

There is no hardware replacement required for the new hours-of-service automation application. It will produce logs automatically for both U.S. and Canadian HOS regimes. The flexible and scaleable new system offers far more capability in general, engineered from the ground up.

OmniVision is said to deliver higher processing power on the mobile unit, an increased number of hardware ports, and an industry standard operating system — Windows CE — that enables rapid feature development. The OmniVision platform, a framework of hardware, software and network infrastructure, enables delivery of two-way data communications 12 times faster than before, Shaw says. As before, it integrates with back-office systems from leading management software providers.