Elopement is a frighteningly widespread problem among autistic children. In fact, nearly half of all children who have autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are known to wander from safe places with more than half (53 percent) of that number wandering into danger or going missing, according to Autism Speaks.

In fact, the National Autism Association (NAA) reports that elopement may be one of the most important contributing factors to mortality among people with ASD with rates that are nearly two times greater than the general population due to accidents, drownings, and suffocations that occur as a result.

How Can GPS Tracking Help with Autism-Related Child Elopement?

The good news for concerned parents is that GPS tracking for children can help you in a variety of ways. Each one offers some relief for worried parents. Even if your child has never wandered off before, you’ll have the comfort and peace of mind that comes with knowing you have a little help if your child does wander off in the form of GPS tracking. These are just a few of the ways GPS tracking can help you protect your child from the dangers of elopement.

• Live tracking. GPS tracking offers the option to know where your child is at all times. Depending on the particular device you purchase, the location accuracy can be highly specific. If your child does wander off, you’ll be able to track, in real time, where your child is so that you can retrieve your child quickly.
• Designate a perimeter. This is another highly useful way to use GPS tracking to keep up with your child or prevent your child from wandering too far out of sight. One problem that is common, especially if your child wanders off when you are sleeping or distracted (with other children or various household chores) is alert you whenever your child leaves the designated geographic perimeter. This means you know exactly when you child wandered out of his or her safe place and then can turn to live tracking to locate your child immediately.
• Send help to exact location. Finally, in a worst-case scenario that has your child wandering into a dangerous situation, you can alert safety personnel of the exact GPS location to come to the aid of your child. In some instances, seconds matter and shaving any time from the travel can be the difference between a favorable outcome.

For many parents of children on the autism spectrum, fear is a constant companion. GPS tracking can help you find relief from some of the biggest fears you may face daily. Contact us here at LiveViewGPS to learn more. 1-888-544-0494

Keeping up with inventory can be painful if you’re operating a warehouse or rely on having certain supplies on hand at all time. The larger your operation, the more problematic tracking inventory can become – unless you adopt GPS tracking for your various inventory tracking needs.

You’ll discover that GPS tracking offers many benefits when it comes to tracking inventory, including those listed below.

Accurately Locate Inventory Items Quickly and Efficiently

Large warehouses can be chaotic at busy times leaving pallets sent to the wrong locations – sometimes taking days, weeks, or even months to sort out. When you use GPS tracking for your pallets, you can quickly locate specific pallets within your warehouse – and all the items contained on those pallets. This saves countless hours spent searching and increases productivity all around.

Itemize Items as They Are Received

GPS tracking for pallets allows you to quickly load the manifests for various pallets into your computer and inventory sheets to provide an accurate count of items coming into your business. Using this information, you can easily correlate the number of specific inventory items you should have on hand and remove those items when they are taken or pallets are relocated within your warehouse.

Active GPS Tracking for High Value Items

Occasionally you’ll have high-value inventory items come through your doors. This might require a little more than a cursory glance and pallet tracking for protection – especially in the case of small consumer electronics that can bring in hefty price tags on the open market and provide a great deal of temptation for sticking fingers of lower wage workers. By installing GPS trackers on individual items in your warehouse, you can track their exact locations at all times. You can even set up alerts to warn you if those items leave a certain geographic perimeter or if they are moved during designated sleep hours allowing you to alert authorities promptly if they are taken and gather evidence about where they are taken as well.

Ensures Customer Orders Are Met on Time

When items are stolen, misplaced, or pull vanishing acts in your warehouse it interferes with your ability to fulfill customer orders promptly. This can cost you valuable business in addition to the money that is lost. Use GPS tracking to reduce the likelihood of lost, stolen, or missing merchandise so you can keep your customers happy and meet their merchandising needs.

GPS tracking can help you locate items more quickly, notice immediately if items are missing, and reduce your overall security concerns making it the perfect addition to track and safeguard your inventory.

If you’re interested in realizing the above benefits and more for your inventory, give us a call at 1-888-544-0494 here at LiveViewGPS and we’re help you select the perfect GPS tracking solution for your inventory needs.

According to a new study, while sperm whales travel in a group, they tend to stick close to each other since they’re highly social creatures.

The Autonomous University of Baja California Sur in Mexico and Oregon State University (OSU) researchers in the United States Pacific Northwest report they found that these whales actually spent around 30 percent of their time socializing and resting at the surface.

But, one group of these sperm whales with twenty-seven Advanced Dive Behavior (ADB) tags dove to search for their favored food (mostly the Humboldt squid), they’d often reach almost a mile or a depth of 1,500 meters below the surface and would then go their own way.

According to researchers, during one dive, one particular whale spent 77 minutes submerged in the Gulf of California.

These sophisticated GPS tracking ADB tags enabled researchers to collect extraordinary amounts of information on the movement, feeding, diving and socialization behavior of the sperm whale which was once hard and almost impossible to gather.

Since sperm whales dive to great depths and spend large amounts of time underwater, they’ve been particularly difficult to study.

Limitations in technology had hindered researchers from collecting consistent behavior data on the whales for over 24 hours at a time until OSU and Wildlife Computers developed the ADB tags.

These tags are able to record diving depth in high-resolution and the GPS locations which help the researchers to track each individual whale for as long as 35 days.

The researchers found through their findings that the whales make 6 distinct types of dives which include four  deep dives and two shallow dives.

Deep dives made up around three out of every four dives that the researchers associated with foraging. And, the tracked whales diving to the bottom of the ocean is more common than what was previously thought by researchers and scientists.

According to OSU’s Marine Mammal Institute’s researcher and lead study author, Ladd Irvine in Newport, Oregon, this is extremely valuable information since it shows how the energy resources of the sperm whales is divided into various activities like resting, socializing and feeding over time.

GPS tracking is a valuable tool for any type of researcher and has been used for many years to help researchers gather up important information necessary for their particular studies.