By Greg Bartlett It’s a business owner’s nightmare. A company owned vehicle is broken into, or stolen, or involved in an accident and the insurance rates go through the roof. Particularly for companies that do on site delivery or work (such as glass delivery companies), this sort of scenario is all too common. However, there’s
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By Greg Bartlett GPS tracking technology uses a transceiver system and the Global Positioning System network of satellites to track objects within just a few meters. GPS technology grew out of the satellite navigation systems used for ocean going vessels (LORAN) in the late 1970s and has over the last years moved from geeky novelty
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The work of conducting a census starts long before the actual census begins. Those who will conduct our next census next year in 2010 have already begun to prepare, recruit additional workers and put the systems in place that will be needed to ensure the information that gathered gives an accurate account of our country’s
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The mayor of Duluth, Minnesota hopes to join the ranks of cities that use GPS tracking devices to keep up with municipal employees. The city is taking a cue for the neighboring city of Minneapolis, which uses GPS tracking systems to keep up with the whereabouts and usage of its fire trucks and police vehicles.
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By Greg Bartlett Asset management (knowing what and where assets are) is a critical logistics concern for many organizations. Records can get lost, human transcription errors are costly, and the entire process can become enormously expensive, particularly when coupled with large volumes of shipments. It gets even more complex when the company (or other organization)
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Earlier this week a story came over the AP Wire about the number of children and developmentally delayed adults who are left on board school buses each year. According to the experts, these occurrences are not at all unusual, with as many as 75 such incidents happening every year, all over the nation. And you
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By Jackie Gately Medieval artist portrayed distance by drawing figures that overlapped. It wasn’t until perspective art – where distant objects appear smaller than closer ones – that an artist’s position relative to his subject became important. But what if the artist is actually in the drawing? Not as in a self-portrait, but rather with
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The International Association of Marine Investigators estimates that approximately 27,000 boats are stolen every year. And if you are the owner of a boat, you certainly do not want to be a part of this number. There is a boat owner in Florida who now knows firsthand that a GPS tracking device is an excellent
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