Ever get a text message from an elephant? Or a whole herd of ’em? No? Then you’re obviously not among a select team of wildlife rangers in Kenya. They’re using GPS fleet tracking to receive hourly location updates from potentially perilous pachyderms capable of devouring a year’s worth of farmers’ crops in a single night.
The [...]
We’ve seen some pretty cool GPS fleet tracking maps. But none is quite as cool as the NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) Google map – complete with images and videos of places where Santa Claus made his latest world tour. (We hope NORAD doesn’t take down the site before you read this.)
There’s been a [...]
The beneficial uses of GPS fleet tracking technology keep multiplying. In this case, the fleet is anyone with a cell phone on the campus of North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
Because all U.S. cell phones must have GPS tracking built in since the passage of the Patriot Act, it’s much easier for police departments and [...]
We blogged recently about how GPS fleet tracking was used to follow the whereabouts of the assistant fire chief in San Angelo, Texas. He is in arbitration with the city over his possibly permanent suspension.
Regrettably – or perhaps fortunately, depending on your perspective – such GPS-assisted investigations are becoming more common. In Tampa, Florida, four [...]
It’s interesting to see who gets into the GPS fleet tracking field, and why they got there in the first place. A scientist beat a speeding ticket because he had a prototype GPS tracker in his vehicle. It proved he was going 29 mph in a 30 mph zone, even though he was ticketed for [...]
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