Vehicle tracking is an essential business tool for the modern commercial fleet for all logistics and security fleets.
Whatever your business type, if you have a commercial fleet of vehicles, keeping your team’s movement transparent is vital when it comes meeting deadlines for your clients. Having your fleet kitted out with a vehicle tracking system keeps you up to date with the location of your driver and can mean you can reallocate a job to another driver in order to make the deadline.
This technology is a cost effective means of keeping your business on track and it works using GPS satellite communication with the receiver unit in your vehicle. GPS tracking systems work by receiving exact microwave signals from satellites, which can determine a vehicles precise location, speed and direction.
Once a GPS tracking system has registered your vehicle via satellite, its receiver unit can track the vehicle’s position as often as every minute. The co-ordinates picked up by the satellite are then translated into a longitude and latitude reading of the vehicle’s whereabouts and are then displayed in the form of a map on a computer screen via the Internet.
The exacting nature of the mapping technology means you can assess the location of your vehicle as well as its speed, location and direction. Ultimately the collating all of this information gives you greater opportunity to monitor any vehicle’s progress alongside the rest of your fleet. Once you can oversee how your vehicles are being driven and how long they are on the road for, you will have peace of mind that …

If you watch a lot of action-packed movies or TV series these days you must have been awed by how technology can be applied in so many things like crime investigation and tracking. One technology that is often inserted in so many modern movies is the GPS or Global Positioning System. This is one huge project of the US Department of Defense that is fully functional and indeed very useful. The most common application is the GPS tracker that is now installed in most modern cars.
GPS Technology
A GPS unit is mainly made up of three segments: the satellites, the control system, and the user.
There are over two-dozen satellites stationed just outside the earth?s atmosphere. These machines are about 11,000 nautical miles above the surface and they are funded and controlled by the US Department of Defense. In order to control these satellites, there are control or monitoring stations in several strategic locations across the globe. These are the units that get the information from the satellites, monitor, and analyze them for any significance in government operations. The user holds the receiver of the radio signals from the orbiting satellites. It can compute its distance from the satellite by using the time stamps on the radio waves that were sent.
To zoom in to a specific location, four satellites are needed. The accuracy is around 10-15 meters so it doesn?t really help if the object being tracked is a car that is about 3 meters long. This is why there have been upgrades like the Differential …