When you’re quickly running into your home to pick up something you’ve forgotten, or are grabbing a quick coffee, you might think it’s OK to leave your keys in your unlocked car for five minutes.

However, a recent report from the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) has essentially stated otherwise. The number of these so-called “freebie” vehicle thefts was up 22 percent to 57,096 in 2015.

Although it’s convenient to leave your vehicle running and open for a few minutes while you’re doing something else nearby, it could cost you your car. When your vehicle is open, with exposed valuables lying around inside, and your keys in the ignition, this is an open invitation to opportunist thieves, who will see your prized possession as easy pickings.

A “freebie” theft is defined as when a driver leaves their FOB or keys in an unlocked car, unattended. Rather than improving, the NICB says that instances of this particular type of theft have grown 31 percent over the past three years. Read the rest of this entry »

Whenever old man winter rears his head, most people head for the comforts of home hoping to ride out the storms in relative warmth. But more than a few dedicated professionals are on call during these perilous times, ready to brave the cold, wind, sleet, ice, and snow to keep the roads safe and homes warm throughout the snowy regions.

Below are three winter weather industries that greatly benefit from GPS tracking. Read the rest of this entry »

Although it’s viewed as unsportsmanlike for hunters to bait their prey, conservation officers in Canada are using the technique to combat the issue of poaching Nanaimo’s urban deer.

Poaching is illegal, cruel, and is of course, extremely dangerous to the public, as poachers roam wooded areas, and public parks shooting cross bolts, and arrows at the animals.

The Bait Deer program is similar in many ways to the police Bait Car program that catches car thieves, and is proving to be an efficient disincentive to poachers killing deer in the area. Instead of hiding cameras to determine the identity of the poachers, the deer are captured by conservation officers, tranquilized, and implanted with a GPS tracking device. Read the rest of this entry »

Meal delivery companies offer valuable services to the communities you serve. Whether you are delivering food for one restaurant, multiple restaurants, or your delivering meals for families to prepare at home, there are several ways that GPS tracking can benefit your business, including these listed below.

Accurate Deliveries

This is extremely important for food deliveries that are time sensitive – especially on busy delivery nights. GPS fleet tracking can help ensure all deliveries arrive at the correct destinations — and that they arrive on time. Read the rest of this entry »

The largest land crab in the world, the coconut crab (Birgus latro), can weigh in excess of nearly nine pounds, and can span as wide as one yard (or 36 inches) across. Once commonly found throughout various tropical Indo-Pacific islands, numbers are rapidly declining due to habitat destruction, and overhunting.

The crab, that was placed on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species back in 1981, is still poorly understood in terms of its basic ecology. This is as a result of a deficit in monitoring and research, and is now something being worked on by a team of researchers.

The team who have travelled to Palmyra Atoll, 1,000 miles south of Hawaii, hopes to ascertain the answers to questions such as: Read the rest of this entry »