Monday, December 24, 2012

Benefits Of GPS Vehicle Tracking Unit

By Angel Humphrey


There are a lot of purposes for vehicle tracking units. But probably the main usage is in preventing theft. If a thief steals a vehicle that has some form of vehicle tracking device on it, the odds of getting it back are enormously higher. Some tracking units can also shut down the engine, so the vehicle stops.

If you need to hold reports of usage and such for business factors, a passive GPS device can do it for you personally for around $200. The process is simple, you just need to download the data and it will give you the mileage and the time it took for the car to go to its destination.

Some parents would use the GPS to monitor the activities of their teenagers particularly if this is the first year that they will be driving. This will give parents the intelligence data they need to make sure that their son or daughter is driving effectively, which can measure abrupt stoppage as well as over speeding.

A Geo-fence can be made simply by programming a car to be within the specific zone or it won't start. When the car is going to cross a border it notifies the car owner or home base. Keeping track of a fleet of vehicles is another very good program for vehicle tracking systems. A dispatcher or monitoring team can watch the vehicle as it strides the freeway in real time, this equates to higher routing efficiency. It's even feasible for the dispatcher to go in a street address into the system, to find out which vehicle is closest.

Trucks, ships and trains can all take advantage of monitoring the cargo transported with GPS devices, since shipments will not go missing and arrival times can be effectively expected.

Another good use of GPS tracking is in public transport wherein passengers can know the exact arrival time. In fact, a web based service called the Nextbus post updated arrival and departure times in real time. With this information, people can synchronize their schedule with the bus so that they can be on time in their appointments.




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