| Most people are familiar with the many personal | | | | businesses are getting the ability to track their |
| uses for GPS tracking. You may have seen them | | | | assets. Home builders are buying GPS to bust |
| on your favorite tv show, or you may have a | | | | theft rings stealing appliances out of new homes |
| friend who has used them. Many consumers use | | | | being built. Construction companies are using GPS |
| small portable GPS trackers for personal uses: | | | | to track large pieces of machinery. Ease of |
| tracking a spouse, tracking a teenager, even | | | | portability, longer battery life, and smaller size are |
| tracking a child in a crowd. More and more | | | | making it easier to track any asset that tends to |
| businesses are turning on to this cheap and easy | | | | be a big loss to a company. |
| to use technology. Such as... | | | | Car Lots - Now tote-the-note car lots are selling |
| Fleet Tracking of Service Vehicles - Any business | | | | cars with GPS installed. Typically they keep the |
| dispatching multiple automobiles around town will | | | | technology inactive with the intention of remotely |
| naturally be able to save money if they can see | | | | securing the car if payments are not met. GPS |
| at a glance each vehicles location. This is especially | | | | can tell the repo man exactly where the car is, |
| important when you are billing by the minute. Taxi | | | | and can even turn the motor off, making their |
| companies reduce time wasted by drivers and | | | | job much easier. |
| give better service from knowing the real time | | | | Executive Tracking - Many companies are offering |
| location of the drivers. Delivery or repair | | | | GPS to their highest level executives as a sort of |
| companies can dispatch the closest unit at a | | | | insurance. These key employees may be prone |
| glance. GPS can also be used to study the idle | | | | to kidnapping, or may have travel required that |
| time, start and stop reports, and speed reports | | | | could lend them lost. These smallest GPS are |
| to cut wasteful driving habits. | | | | body worn and include a panic button to let them |
| Asset Tracking- Using GPS to track a particular | | | | know immediately when a problem occurs. |
| shipment has been widely used by the federal | | | | There are many more uses and new uses being |
| reserve to track cash, and by the military to | | | | invented everyday for GPS products. |
| track their military assets. Now even smaller | | | | |