At first blush, it may not make sense to consider GPS car tracking as a viable business solution. However, when one thinks of what can be accomplished using such a system, and how it is actually possible to cut expenses, it soon makes sense to incorporate GPS car tracking into the business plan, especially if you have company cars.
There are many companies whose employees take advantage of company cars on company time to go out and run personal errands. This costs money not only in time wasted, but also in the cost of gas. Additionally, extra trips put more miles and wear and tear on company fleet vehicles. Eventually, little trips to the dry cleaner and to get some coffee will add up, especially if you have more than one person who has access to company cars. This is where GPS car tracking comes in.
GPS car tracking can let you know exactly where your company cars are at all times. It can also help you follow their routes. If you want to let your employees know about the car tracking system, it can also help them plot the best and fastest route to their destinations. You will know, simply by looking at a computer screen in your office, where your company cars are going, and even where they have been. You will know whether or not a car has strayed from its approved path and is making unnecessary stops.
GPS car tracking can also help you know how long each stop is. Do your employees sit around and talk for a long period of time when meeting with others or making a delivery? Did that quick trip to the bagel shop turn into a conversation and a slow cup of coffee? You can see stop and start times easily with GPS car tracking, helping you catch those who waste time red-handed.
With GPS car tracking you can take control of some of your business's unnecessary expenses. You can keep your costs due to wasted time and extra gas down. All you need is to outfit your company vehicles with GPS car tracking.
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Gps Vehicle Car Tracking
GPS vehicle tracking has been in existence for some time, at least since the late 1970's. Many trade names have been associated with it such as Lojack and LoTrans. These were early applications created particularly for the inventory and tracking of service vehicles, fire and police department vehicles. They depended upon the World War II LORAN (Long-range Radio Aid Navigation) system. These earlier systems provided a centralized office with the geographic location of vehicle fleets and were a great deterrent to vehicular theft. They however provided no geographic intelligence to the driver of the vehicle.
The present day vehicle tracking is accomplished by using GPS, which is a popularized name for Global Navigation Satellite System. It provides the driver with a highly accurate map, portrayed on a small screen incorporated into the GPS receiver. Here the driver can monitor their present location, plan the best route and obtain an estimate of time to arrival. The Global Navigation Satellite System was developed by the United States and the Soviet Union created its GLONASS during the Cold War to accurately guide their extensive ICBM and SLBM inventories. Later it was used as a backup guidance system for both nations' nuclear submarine fleets.
The current GPS tracking used in vehicles comes to us, in civilianized form courtesy of President Ronald Regan. It was after the tragedy of airline flight KAL 007 that President Regan made it available for civilian use. GPS vehicle tracking allows an uncorrected location accuracy of 3 square meters. The ability for civilian transponders to receive the p coded military GPS signal occurred after President Clinton authorized its' release in 1996. Today you are able to know within feet and inches the location of your vehicle while on the move.
A GPS vehicle tracking device is composed of three parts; the space segment which is composed of 30 geosynchronous satellites orbiting along six (6) planes, the control segment which is composed of six (6) land based monitoring stations and the user segment which is a radio receiver capable of calculating its precise position from comparing multiple radio signals from the satellites. The satellite signal is the output of a satellite's location in coded latitude and longitude and the time. By comparing the signals of many satellites and comparing the time of reception, the receiver can determine its exact location. This calculation is a result of a mathematical process called trilateration.
Today there are smart business applications for the use of GPS vehicle tracking device. One of its applications is in the taxi business. Two separate firms in the United States (Dallas, Texas and Atlanta, Georgia) and one in London, England have used it to improve on their dispatch capability. The dispatcher has a Geographic Information System workstation computer that includes a radio transceiver. This provides them with a map of the city and shows the active location of all taxis. It also shows the dispatcher which taxis are working and those that aren't.
When a call is received, the dispatcher logs the client into the database or the system automatically locates the caller's cell phone location or if the client calls using a wired phone system. This later feature prevents crank calls or dangerous situations in which the end aim is the robbery of the taxi driver. The dispatcher can manually assign an available driver or the system can automatically assign. This application of GPS vehicle tracking device has resulted in more than 50% increase in business, a significant reduction in waiting time for customers and a dramatic increase in profitability.
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