February 12, 2012
GPS devices are great crime-fighters and are a very useful tool to have in your arsenal when it comes to preventing or investigating theft. Organizations and private citizens have found that they really got their money’s worth by installing GPS tracking devices on their property, be it a car, a bicycle or construction equipment.
Let’s stop here for a moment. What do a car, a bike and construction equipment have in common? (No, this isn’t a trick question.) Give up?
Well, they are all non-perishables and it is easy to think of using a GPS device to keep track of these sort of things. But what about perishable and edible items? Well, GPS technology can be used to keep track of those kinds of things too.

When a company notices that someone had helped themselves to more than $50,000 worth of their inventory over a period of three months, they decided to take action. The company’s owner put a GPS tracker on a pallet of Alaskan king crabs and the thieves took the bait. With cell phone tracking technology on his side, the business owner had information on the whereabouts of his cargo sent to his cell phone. This data was turned over to the local police department and the police were able to zero in on the thieves’ location because of the information provided by the GPS tracking device.
When you are tracking something with a GPS device, you get raw data for several satellites, but that data is useless or confusing if it isn’t presented through the right software. Rocky Mountain Tracking has user-friendly and reliable software that will get you the information you need when you need it. Plus, RMT provides customer and tech support that is second to none.
Visit Rocky Mountain Tracking today to learn about GPS asset tracking.