Keeping up with your family as summer gets into full swing can be tricky in the best of times. Everyone seems to go his or her own way. There is a better way, though. From elderly parents to spouses, to teens, and more, GPS tracking can help you keep up with the movements of your family, and so much more, during the dog days of summer and beyond. Here are a few prime examples.

1. Teen tracking. There are few things more terrifying to parents than handing over the keys to the car to their teen drivers. Even if your teen isn’t yet driving, he or she is probably rarely home. GPS tracking for teens allows you to keep tabs on your teen at all hours of the day and night. You can even track when teens leave designated boundaries and when they leave the house during designated quiet hours.
2. Tracking elderly parents. Elderly tracking is another area where GPS tracking can take a weight off busy, burdened minds. Illnesses like Alzheimer’s disease and dementia can rob aging adults of memories and render them easily confused. GPS tracking for the elderly gives you the tool you need to track lost parents and help keep them safe.

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Farms are becoming more important than ever as the number of people on the planet requiring food balloons and available landmass designated for farming shrinks. Forbes suggests that food production will need to increase by 70 percent by 2050 to feed a world’s population that will approach 10 billion.

Future proofing agriculture is a bigger challenge than the average person realizes. One thing that is changing the outlook of farming though, smart farming. In fact, smart farming may be the key to future growth in agriculture. But what is it?

Smart farming is a process by which we use a combination of data and technology to improve the quantity and quality of production on the world’s farms. It’s already happening, to some degree, on large-scale or corporate farms around the world. Even smaller, family farms are beginning to adopt technology to improve crop yields, map soul, and monitor livestock.

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GPS fleet tracking offers many benefits to fleets. While some would fear that dispatchers would find it off-putting, most dispatchers love the benefits that fleet tracking with GPS has to offer their entire organizations. These are just a few of the reasons dispatchers are in love GPS fleet tracking.

Allows Them to Accomplish More with Fewer Resources

Imagine getting more accomplished during the day while paying fewer drivers and having fewer trucks on the road. That’s exactly what can happen when you improve dispatching efficiency with GPS fleet tracking. It’s not all about cutting fuel costs, which it helps with tremendously. It’s also about improving organizational efficiency, getting more work accomplished, and making more money for everyone in the end.

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