Businesses and organizations of every type and size use GPS tracking systems everyday. Here are a few of the most common industries using GPS trackers to improve the way they do business.
Law Enforcement and Private Investigators: GPS tracking for law enforcement and private investigations provides a cost-effective method of vehicle tracking without the need for around-the-clock human surveilance. GPS tracking systems with motion sensors alert law enforcement officers and private investigators when a target vehicle moves. Using GPS tracking software, agencies have the capability to follow the tracked vehicle with great accuracy.
Construction Companies: With both heavy equipment, and expensive items such as air conditioners, appliances, and more at stake, construction companies use GPS tracking devices to protect the costly items they store on construction sites. GPS trackers can be placed on items such as dump trucks and bulldozers, as well as central air conditioning units and refrigerators. In the event of theft, these items are much more likely to be quickly recovered. In some cases, insurance companies offer premium discounts for items equipped with GPS.
Home Services: Business which provide in-home services, such as medical supply companies, contractors, plumbers, HVAC companies, and more often use GPS tracking devices for fleet tracking. With GPS tracking software, fleet managers have the ability to determine efficient routes, and know exactly where every vehicle is at any time of day.
With GPS tracking and fleet tracking becoming an everyday component of businesses everywhere, business owners who have or plan to implement GPS technology have a lot of questions about how to encourage their employees’ support of GPS tracking technology. GPS tracking actually provides your employees with several great benefits.
Recognition for Outstanding Work : With fleet tracking technology at work for your business, it’s simple to determine which employees are going the extra mile. With GPS tracking technology installed in every vehicle of your fleet, you’ll have the accurate data you need to recognize excellent performance–something appreciated by employees who are performing their jobs well, and who may otherwise go unnoticed.
Fewer Liabilities: With GPS fleet tracking, employees are far less likely to be falsely accused of being involved in accidents, traffic violations and more. Fleet tracking provides you and your employees with their exact locations at all times.
Accurate Payroll: For some employees, there is always the question of whether their pay fully compensates them for their hours worked. GPS tracking for businessses provides an excellent method of tracking how long your employees spend on the job, assuring that everyone receives the compensation they’ve earned.
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TrackingTheWorld's OFT-210 Ankle Bracelet GPS Tracker
According to the LaCrosse Tribune, a newly introduced Wisconsin bill is asking for GPS tracking devices for repeat offenders of protection orders issued through Wisconsin courts. The GPS tracking bill stems from “Cindy’s Law”, an Illinois law requiring GPS tracking of repeat violators of protective orders, which was named in tribute to a woman killed by her boyfriend three years ago.
Since Illinois enacted the GPS tracking legislation, other states have followed suit, including Minnesota and Indiana. If the bill passes in Wisconsin, the GPS tracking services would be funded by the offenders themselves through a $200 surcharge for every violator of a protective order.
In the photo above, you’ll find TrackingTheWorld’s OFT- 210 GPS tracking ankle bracelet. Ankle bracelet trackers are frequently used for GPS tracking of criminal offenders.
CNN recently featured our newest GPS tracker, the WorldTracker Enduro Pro, on a segment of CNN Newsroom. Describing the Enduro Pro as “about the size of a pack of Tic Tacs”, and “what the real private eyes use”, the segment discussed the versatility of the GPS tracker as both a vehicle tracker and a tracking device that can easily be worn on the person. As shown in the CNN video, the Enduro Pro GPS tracker works with GPS tracking software to provide real time GPS tracking via satellite mapping.
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The OFT-210 GPS Tracker
One of TrackingTheWorld’s latest GPS tracking devices is the OFT-210, an ankle bracelet GPS tracking device. With the release of this GPS tracker, we’d like to inform our readers on how ankle bracelet GPS trackers like the OFT-210 are successfully put to use every day.
GPS Tracking for Home-Based Corrections
Considered a more cost effective alternative to already overcrowded jails and prisons, community-based corrections and in-house arrest programs are becoming a necessary choice for many localities. Attaching ankle bracelet GPS tracking devices to each offender allows program administrators to simultaneously monitor a large numbers of offenders via GPS tracking software. The GPS tracking devices can be programmed to alert authorities when the bracelet leaves a specific area, to assure that an offender leaves and returns from work at designated times, and to monitor the individual’s daily free time, if applicable.
Ankle Bracelet GPS Tracking for Elderly Loved Ones
Nursing homes and families are turning to GPS tracking ankle bracelets to track the location of patients with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, who might otherwise be at risk for wandering away, becoming lost, or taken advantage of.
The ankle bracelet GPS tracking units can be programmed to alert caregivers and family members when the wearer leaves a specific area, such as their home, their neighborhood, or their care facility. This allows the individual to have as much freedom as possible while assuring their safety. In addition, modern GPS ankle bracelets are small in size, and are easily hidden by the wearer’s pants to provide as much dignity as possible.
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The use of GPS tracking for city bus systems is certainly on the rise. City bus users in St. Albert in Alberta, Canada now have the ability to monitor their city buses in real time via any electronic device with access to the Internet. The vehicle tracking technology allows users to view the location of their bus on a map through GPS tracking devices installed on every bus in the fleet.
The new GPS tracking system is designed to prevent long wait times, making the public transit system more friendly, and ultimately increase the number of patrons choosing to use public transportation. Considering the popularity of smart phones, it estimated that nearly half of bus patrons will take advantage of the new real-time GPS tracking system.
The cost of adding customer-accessed real-time GPS tracking capabilities to the buses’ existing GPS tracking devices was approximately $100,000. St. Albert is the sixth municipality in Canada to offer customers real time GPS tracking for a public transportation system.
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Want to know exactly when, where, and how fast your teenage son or daughter is driving the family car? With the safety of your child in the balance as well as the financial liability of having a teenager behind the wheel, this information could prove to be priceless for the safety and security of your family.
Many parents now use GPS tracking devices to monitor the driving speeds and location of their teenagers. These GPS tracking devices are small, relatively inexpensive, and easy to install and operate. With a GPS tracker and your smart phone or laptop computer, you’ll have the ability to access real-time, detailed analysis of speed, location, and historical data, and receive instant alerts on deviation from specified routes, and crossing a specified perimeter.
The value of tracking your teenage driver via GPS is immeasurable. With all the parental concerns that come with new drivers, knowing where they are and how they are driving is a sensible and smart parenting decision.
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