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| GPS - Reduce unauthorized mileage in your company fleet and track your assets. |
| By: Ventura |
| Global Positioning System - GPS
- devices have become everyday items to many of us as their cost has
fallen.
These devices communicate with geostationary satellites, which tell the
device, exactly where on Earth it is. The potential applications for
this knowledge are endless. If you know where you are, where you were
and the time in between then you know your speed exactly. If you know
where you are then others do too.
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| GPS systems can be installed in cell phones
as well as satellite phones. Sportsmen and women can use GPS devices to
calculate how far they have run or paddled, their current speed and
average speed.
Increasingly companies are fitting them in their vehicles. Trucks may
be carrying $500,000 worth of goods, so it's worth installing a GPS
system so you know where it is. A similar system is sold as a theft
deterrent to private drivers.
Other companies are fitting a system that interfaces with the engine
management computer on vehicles in their company fleet. As a driver
goes out of a predefined area, the engine power drops and continues to
drop the further outside the designated area the vehicle is. The system
soon pays for itself in reduced levels of unauthorized mileages.
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| GPS devices are now so
miniaturized that they can be worn on the wrist, like a watch. GPS
navigation systems are commonly fitted in trucks and delivery vans. The
built in software interprets the GPS information into a series of
spoken commands, like "Turn Left" or "You've missed the turning, take
the next right and turn around". A GPS system means that courier
companies can achieve faster deadlines because drivers never get lost. |
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