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Utilising GPS Tracking and Navigation by Innes Donaldson
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Utilising GPS Tracking and Navigation |
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Advice,Business,Electronics
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The GPS or global positioning system has become one of the world's most used systems that is still improving in many ways even as you are reading this article and I am pretty sure that it will be here to stay for a very long time to follow. The GPS was first born as a navigation tool because of the frequent cases of travelers getting lost in parts of the country they had never had the chance to visit before. And since locals can not always help you in the way you would like them to... you would simply get lost and you would spend hours and gas money to find your way back again. Now the GPS system works pretty much as a fancy transmitter and receiver much like a two way radio. It sends out a signal toward a base station or tower that will later on send the signal to a satellite and after this small journey has been done the signal will then return to your GPS tracking system and it will tell you where you are and how you can get to your destination. Also as you can use this feature for navigational purposes, you can use it in the same time for tracking purposes. If you are the owner of a large distribution company and you have a fleet of vehicles roaming the country on a daily basis in order to distribute all your products then you have some things you need to take into consideration. Your cars might get stolen or they can be involved in some accidents which I do hope will never be the case, your employees could go postal and take your car to some unknown destination or simply they could be tired of what you pay them and throw your car over a cliff. For this respect you can use GPS tracking to monitor the position of your vehicles at all time and you can also help your employees at the same time. In the case that they do get lost you can tell them what would be the best route to take in order to still reach the destination in due time or if they get sidetracked by mistake you can also give them a helping hand by offering some assistance for navigation. Also when purchasing some GPS systems you should keep an eye out for the design so that you can mount it to your car without sacrificing space, make sure that it has a user friendly software and also that is has an auto update feature.
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