Snowmobile rental businesses are fast-paced businesses that can do a ton of turnover in the course of a day. You might not realize just how much GPS tracking can help you improve the operation and profits of your business.

Below are just a few ways you can grow your snowmobile rental shop with the use of a GPS fleet tracking system.

Recovery of Stolen Snowmobiles

This is one of the most important benefits of GPS tracking in your line of work. When snowmobiles are out of your sight they make tempting targets for thieves of opportunity – especially when being rented by people who aren’t highly motivated to protect your property. GPS powered asset tracking allows you to track the location of your snowmobiles in real time so you can alert law enforcement authorities to the exact location of your snowmobiles and aid in their swift recovery when they are stolen.

Aid in Search and Rescue Efforts

Snowmobiling does present some risk to riders. Sudden storms, accidents, and other hazards along the way can make for intensely dangerous situations. GPS tracking allows you to pinpoint the location of snowmobiles so you can rescue riders who may be stranded, have broken down, or are in the midst of medical emergencies. When seconds can save lives, conserving hours of searching over large masses of land is certainly helpful.

Improve Customer Experience

Not only can you allow customers to use GPS to track their snowmobile adventures, but when you rent by the hour, you can be precise when billing adventurers for their time. GPS tracking systems operate in real time, effectively eliminating disputes about the amount of time spent having fun in the snow. Improving the overall customer experience means more recommendations and repeat business for you.

Ensure Customers Find Their Way Home

Another benefit of GPS tracking is that it can be used to help your customers navigate back home if they get a little bit turned around and lost along the way. While life would be better if everyone stayed on the prescribed track, the truth is that many do not. This can lead to lost people, search and rescue efforts, and a few dangerous situations alone the way. GPS tracking for your snowmobiles helps to reduce these risks.

As a snowmobile rental shop, your best efforts are spent building your business, not tracking down lost riders, assets, and more. GPS tracking for your snowmobiles can aid in that leaving you free to follow more profitable pursuits for your business.

If you own or manager a snowmobile rental shop, give us a call here at LiveViewGPS at 1-888-544-0494 to learn about the benefits of GPS tracking to safeguard your fleet of snowmobiles and safety of your riders.

Bicycles are a preferred mode of transportation in the Fresno area of California; however, due to an alarming rise in bike theft, many people who use bikes are reconsidering their transportation options. That’s because bikes are stolen on every day in the Fresno area. In fact, some bikes that are stole are disassembled in chop shops and the parts are sold.

Thanks to technology, the bike theft problem in the Fresno area could be controlled in the near future. Enthusiasts are very hopeful that bikes that are worth thousands of dollars will be outfitted with GPS tracking devices in the very near future. These tracking devices will make it easier for the police to locate and recover the bikes that are stolen.

The bike theft problem in and around Fresno has gotten so bad that some thieves aren’t even taken the entire bike. Some thieves are dismantling bikes and taking the parts so that they can sell them for cash. This is bad news for people who make efforts to protect their bikes by locking them up. A thief can take all of the parts of the bike, leaving just the axle that the lock was attached to. Thieves that really want to take an entire bike can cut the lock and walk off with the bike.

Pablo Armigo, an employee at Rubber Soul Cycle, believes that once bikes are outfitted with GPS devices, the crime rate will significantly drop. He is optimistic that the GPS tracking devices will be a huge deterrent, reducing the number of bike thefts by 60 to 80 percent.

Bike experts in the area say that the GPS tracking technology is available, it’s just a matter of getting the technology into the stores so that it can be outfitted on bikes. At the present time, it is not known exactly when GPS technology for bikes will be made available on the open market, but it is believed that developers are very close to finalizing the devices. Some experts are hopeful that bike GPS tracking devices will come out as soon as next year.

The advent of GPS tracking devices could change the outlook of bike theft in the Fresno area; an area that experiences a tremendous amount of bike theft.

GPS tracking technology has been used to save lives, track migration patterns of animals, recover lost items, and help numerous people find their way out of the wilderness or around big cities. And GPS fleet tracking helps companies with fleets improve efficiencies, decrease costs, improve productivity, increase profits, and more.

Now it can check another important thing off its list of accomplishments: helping students study wind patterns and ocean currents.

How is it accomplishing this impressive feat? It’s an interesting story.

Students from Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School in Bradenton, Florida are studying wind patterns and ocean currents from their classrooms thanks to two miniature research vessels called Maurick and Kestrel. Both vessels set sail on September 26, 2017 equipped with a GPS tracker that sends information to the students so they can study these patterns.

It’s all part of the International SeaKeepers Society Discovery Yachts Program. This particular voyage marks the second research voyage for Kestrel who set sale on May 14,2017 near Homestead, Florida before traveling through the Gulf of Mexico and arriving in St. Bernards Parish in Louisiana, located on the eastern side of Louisiana’s delta. This voyage lasted 60 days and 22 hours for Kestrel.

The current voyage, being studied by Bradenton area students made a short pit stop in Ormond Beach, Florida where it was collected by Volusia County Beach Safety who, according to instructions on a sign on the mini vessel, contacted Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School after arranging for the vessel to be collected by Dodi Gaines, the biology department chair for local Seabreeze High School.

Educational Passages, the program behind the Kestrel and Maurick launches has launched more than 70 boats as part of its educational programming. You can track the progress of all research mini vessels launched as part of the program by visiting the Educational Passages website.

Ultimately, none of this would be possible without the use of GPS tracking technology. The more sophisticated and efficient GPS tracking technology becomes, the more benefits, like these, we will experience from watching it in action.

Long battery life, energy conserving methods, and outstanding programming has helped to create educational opportunities for students, study migration patterns of animals, find lost tools, equipment, and people (including at-risk populations such as the elderly, young children, and children who suffer from certain medical conditions like autism).