The GPS Fleet Management System at a Glance
posted on 23 April 2011 | posted in
Cars and Transport
A GPS fleet management System is usually associated with taxi fleets, city buses, armored transport as well as police and emergency vehicles. The reality is a lot of companies use GPS to not just for their company fleet, but also for personal tracking top executives, vital assets and equipment.
The GPS is a Global Navigation Satellite System invented by the United States DOD and utilizes a network of 32 satellites that transmit precise signals, which enable GPS receivers to determine their location, time, and their speed plus direction.
The system uses a GPS receiver coupled with a transmitter. The GPS receiver determines its location, direction and velocity and transmits this information to a monitoring station via the transmitter. The transmitter is most commonly a mobile phone device which transmits the data via GPRS.
The monitoring station is a computer that receives the packets sent by the GPS devices, stores them in a database and presents them as a ‘layered’ data on a map.
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