Worried about transporting your dog or cat on an airline, stowed away in the cargo section? You can now track how he’s doing if you use Delta Airlines’ new with GPS tracking for pets service. It provides up-to-date information about location, spikes in temperature and if your pet’s crate is right-side up or not.

The tracking device costs owners $50. The data is accessible online at the Delta website from a GPS tracking unit that is attached to the pet’s crate. It sends updates before and after the flight, but not during due to restrictions on cell communication. This isn’t seen as a problem because most problems occur when the pets are waiting in the cargo area or are being loaded aboard the plane.

10 U.S. Cities

Right now GPS tracking is available and on 10 U.S. flights, including Los Angeles, Tampa, Seattle, Detroit, Cincinnati, Memphis, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Atlanta, Salt Lake City and New York.

You must take your pet to the cargo loading facility in order to arrange the service. Read the rest of this entry »

As an elevator repair company, you have a lot of ground to cover on an average day, which is why GPS fleet tracking can be a huge benefit to your business. These are just a few of the ways GPS tracking can help you build better customer relationships, while seriously boosting your bottom line.

GPS Provides Fastest Route to Destination

While it’s true you want to go the most fuel efficient route, when one of your clients has people stuck in an elevator, it feels like an emergency to them. The faster you arrive, the happier they are. You want to have your technicians there as quickly as possible so they can get busy making the necessary repairs and making for happy clients.

GPS Systems Can be Designed Pull Up Past Repair Records by Elevator

Older buildings often have repeat offenders are far as elevators go. You can troubleshoot potential problems more quickly by pulling up the elevator history and identifying changes that need to be made, as well as to eliminate repairs that have been made recently as less likely problems.

Provide Customers with Ability to Track Your Drivers

Since it always feels like emergencies when elevators are down in apartment buildings, hotels, and high-rise office buildings, your customers are a little anxious about when your repair technicians will arrive. Read the rest of this entry »

The Cape Fear Public Utility Authority in New Hanover County, NC has racked up significant savings after putting GPS trackers in vehicles.

An audit showed that the organization saved over 19,000 gallons of gas, reducing the fuel budget by $54,189. Less fuel was used because supervisors were able to monitor speed and location of all vehicles.

Safety and Efficiency

It also keeps drivers more aware of safety issues like speeding. Chief Communications Officer Mike McGill was pinged by the GPS tracking software when he was driving too fast up Chapel Hill. He calls it a “gentle reminder” to himself and other drivers that the authority cares about their safety.

It also adds to overall vehicle efficiency, saving money for the group. One example is the ability to send out the truck that is closest to a repair site, saving both time and money.

The county is considering using the devices on school buses and country, fire, city and police vehicles. New Hanover County Commissioner Woody White calls the GPS fleet software an innovative way to save “every possible dollar.” Read the rest of this entry »

Driving green helps the earth and helps your bottom line. Earth Day is April 22. It’s a good time to investigate ways to make vehicles more efficient and to save on fuel.

Can I Make a Difference?

Yes! Every single truck can make a difference. Consider this fact: each gallon of fuel a vehicle burns can put as much as 20 pounds of unwanted carbon dioxide into the earth’s atmosphere. Gallon by gallon, you can save the planet from the damaging effects of pollution.

This also helps you budget. Though fuel prices are in a downward trend, they are volatile. Costs will go up. Each gallon of fuel you don’t have to buy adds to profitability.

7 Tips to Drive Green

1)   Plan routes for efficiency. This is where GPS fleet tracking shows its worth. Avoid delays and detours by checking for the best way to your pickup point. Your vehicle will use less fuel. Each delivery will also take less time, letting you fit more work into the same number of work hours. Read the rest of this entry »

Researchers have found a way to use GPS tracking technology to obtain more information on jellyfish.

Tracking animals is not a foreign concept; for several years, scientists have been using GPS tracking technology to watch the behaviors, habits, and movements of everything from tigers to whales. However, jellyfish have always been somewhat elusive because they were impossible to track

A new study, though, is revealing insights about the mystical jellyfish from a GPS tracking data that didn’t track the jellyfish itself, but the ocean currents.

Researchers were very curious as to how jellyfish are able to adapt so well in the ocean, especially considering they have no brains, bones, or even a heart. Through this tracking study, they were able to gather a lot of useful information on their adaptation abilities.

When looking through the data they received, researchers discovered that jellyfish have the ability to automatically detect the ocean waves. Once they detect the waves at a certain current, they know it is time to swim against those currents. Read the rest of this entry »