Boyfriends are using it to stalk their girlfriends, employers are using it to track their employees and parents are using it to control their kids. But, is it legal? The cell phone GPS surveillance industry is exploding. In the next few years it is expected to be a 20 billion dollar a year industry.
Global Positioning System, or GPS, is a satellite based navigational technology which enables companies with large fleets of vehicles spread out over a large amount of territory to have a constant fix both on where their vehicles are, and where they have previously been.
Better Than Cellular
GPS fleet tracking has a great advantage over cellular communications between a company and its fleet drivers, simply because the satellite providing location information will not encounter dead zones the way cellular technology can. The link between GPS fleet tracking receivers and GPS satellites remains intact evening the presence of tall buildings or heavy foliage.
The Global Positioning System (GPS) was developed by the US Department of Defense for military use. The device serves the military for air and sea navigation throughout the world for tracking and navigation purposes. On top of military applications, many are finding that there are commercial uses for the GPS. GPS units today are now indispensable units for even average people.
Navigation
Running a successful business is definitely a hard thing to do in today’s world. One of the most important parts of succeeding in today’s business world is keeping track of your employees, your product, and your equipment.
At one time, keeping track of everything meant making frequent phone calls, relying on others to give you accurate information, and even some late nights dealing with the changing time zones to follow up on deliveries around the world.
Luckily, the advent of technology and something called a GPS tracking device has made the job of keeping track of things a little bit easier. Here are a few reasons why investing in a GPS tracking device might be a great idea.
A GPS unit can be purchased in stores for anywhere between $100-$1000 dollars and allows a user to know their location anywhere in the world. Unlike the GPS receiver the actual global positioning system is composed of approximately 30 satellites, which orbit the earth. Furthermore, at any time of the day, anywhere in the world, there must be at least 3 GPS satellites visible for a receiver (unit) to function properly. By using radio frequencies to contact the GPS network of satellites a receiver can pin-point a users location via a process called three dimensional trilateration.
