A GPS tracker has landed at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station after beginning its journey in the ocean at San Salvador Island, in the Bahamas. The piece of equipment glided across the sea for months before landing at its final destination on Tuesday, October 18.

The GPS tracking device was sent out to sea by Assistant Professor Jeremy Stalker, and a group of his students, from Jacksonville University, Florida. They were attempting to ascertain whether there is bad news up ahead for the coastlines of Central and South Florida, and where trash might end up reaching the shore over the weeks ahead.

The tracker was created by a group of Stalker’s study abroad students who made a structure of floats, PVC pipes, and other items they found on a Bahamas beach. It was then sent out on the seas to try find out how water travels. Read the rest of this entry »

Cleaning windows is big business – even for small window cleaning companies. One thing all businesses have in common, though, is the need to constantly improve the flow of work in order to improve profitability.

GPS fleet tracking can help your window cleaning company do just that.

Below are a few great ways you can boost your profit and please your paying customers even more with the help of GPS fleet tracking. Read the rest of this entry »

Audubon Canyon Ranch biologists have trapped a mountain lion in Sonoma Valley in order to put a GPS tracking collar on her. The first investigation of its kind for the biologists, the lion, that was sedated, and outfitted with the neck device at the beginning of October, 2016, was then released back into the wild so her movements could be tracked, and studied.

Part of a revolutionary attempt to conserve the remnants of the lions’ Wine Country habitat, the study, led by South African biologist, Quinton Martins involved setting a trap for the mountain lion that had been spotted previously on a wildlife camera. Read the rest of this entry »

Today’s businesses are becoming more focused on reducing their carbon footprints. There are many reasons you’re choosing to do so. From customer demands to shifting interests in protecting the planet and various other reasons. Regardless of why you’ve made the decision, GPS tracking can help you reduce the carbon footprint of your fleet in these five ways.

1) More Efficient Routing

The carbon footprint benefits of efficient routing are many. They include things like fewer emissions, fewer miles traveled in the course of a day, less time spent idling, and more. The end result is that the vehicles in your fleet are reducing their emissions and that’s good for the planet. Read the rest of this entry »

GPS tracking technology has been used for a wide range of practical and personal reasons over the years. As an emerging technology it is also being used, at least by one man, to create art. Stephen Lund is using the powerful combination of his bicycle and GPS tracking to create interesting works of art while still getting a great workout in the process.

How does it work?

Lund creates cycling paths to follow that result in works of art. Over time he has amassed an impressive array of designs on his cycling adventures. From a cyclist to a mermaid, and a little bit of wildlife in between, his bicycle paths themselves become the work or art as his GPS trackers outlines the route he’s taken in red. Read the rest of this entry »