InfraStructures - December 2012/January 2013 - GPS Tracking Without Recurring Charges - Canada's National Equipment Magazine - Le Magazine d'Équipement National au Canada

GPS Tracking Without Recurring Charges

MINDS Inc. is pleased to officially announce the release of the PaveTag GPS/WiFi solution as an answer to providing cost effective fleet tracking and paver monitoring without recurring airtime costs. The near real-time solution provides important historical movement of fleets and utilizes WiFi infrastructure to upload GPS data, thus avoiding expensive cellular airtime costs. A one-time only charge for the tracking device allows you to have unlimited use of the system and access to the eRoutes™ web interface which provides mapping, graphical charts, reports and customizable mobile alerts of your fleet and paver/milling machine activity.

The system dynamically merges information like paver location, truck location and plant load-out data (tickets) to provide immediate and practical contextual information:

Truck ETA at job and plant, cycle time, transport time, waiting time per job and/or truck.
Tons made, tons loaded, tons in-transit and tons laid down.
Hauler, truck, driver performance comparison.
Paver performance report with a timeline of speed, start-stops, number of trucks available at jobsite.
Alerts and reports on mobile phones and smart phones.
Access to historical data.

The tracking device can be easily installed in the cabin of any vehicle and uses a store-and-forward logger for the geopositional information. Data is automatically uploaded when it connects to a known WiFi access point at the plant or paver/milling machine Internet hotspot.

A fixed geofence area is created for locations where you want to track the arrival and departure times of trucks and a mobile geofence is automatically created for pavers, MTV/Shuttle Buggies and milling machines.

With the adoption of PaveTag GPS, transportation managers can monitor the behavior of their assets in the field and view logistical information anywhere on a web browser and smartphone 24/7. The access to on-demand information is critical to making operational decisions.

Source: MINDS Inc.