Students Learn About GPS Tracking in Their Future

Think most kids are more tech-savvy than their parents? Not necessarily when it comes to GPS technology. They might know that the GPS navigator on your dashboard tells you how to drive from Point A to Point B, yet they have no idea how it works. But educators are changing all that by exposing students [...]

More Animal Instincts Monitored by GPS Tracking

We humans keep finding more reasons to keep track of animals. Lately, GPS fleet tracking technology has been put to use to help us co-exist better with moose, kangaroos and crocodiles. While GPS tracking does a great job of monitoring vehicles on the road, it also is useful for preventing us from hitting animals on [...]

From Putin to Pumas, GPS Tracking Assists Big Cats

Because they can threaten humans when they feel threatened themselves, tigers and mountain lions need all the friends they can get.
One of their best friends these days is Russian President Vladimir Putin. He not only has his own website that tracks a rare Amur tigress in Siberia, but he also knows how to fit a [...]

GPS Tracking Goes Along for the Ride with All Kinds of Animals

What do the following animals have in common: a moose dangling from a helicopter, a confused pronghorn antelope, a 5-year-old albatross and a Super Bowl 43 VIP? (OK, that last one isn’t an animal out in the wild, but it is a party animal.)
What they have in common, of course, is that all are under [...]

Elephants No Longer Pain in Neck Thanks to GPS Tracking Collars

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 [...]