Thanks to the advanced technology of GPS tracking and its ingenious developer, a new wind-powered ball can safely detonate landmines and track their location with a GPS tracking chip.

About Landmines

As explosive devices and used by a variety of military services, land mines exist under the ground. They are meant to detonate, or explode, from pressure of someone walking or driving over the land mines.

Landmines are placed in inexplicable places according to the desired targets. They can now be considered anti-vehicle weapons or anti-personnel weapons. They are also used to deny access to public utilities, roads, waterways, and farmlands. Read the rest of this entry »

EMS (Emergency Medical Services) vehicles have an important job to do. They are literal lifelines to the cities in which they operate. EMS personnel understand, all too well, that in emergency situations, seconds can be the literal difference between life and death. Fast access to trained medical care is often critical not only to save lives, but also to maintain a certain quality of life for those who do survive.

That’s why it’s so important to use every available tool at your disposal in order to manage your vehicles as efficiently as possible in order to save more lives.

These are just a few of the reasons why it’s vital to invest in GPS fleet tracking equipment to help you manage your EMS vehicles to be even more effective tools for saving lives. Read the rest of this entry »

A New Zealand city employee recently lost his job after a GPS tracking device reported a mismatch between the hours worked and the hours he reported.

Robert Stuart, an employee of a New Zealand-based street cleaning company, was found falsifying information on his daily time sheets. The discrepancy was originally proven by a GPS tracking device installed on his truck, but manager Mike O’Donnell had his suspicions early on.

O’Donnell claimed he would attempt to get a hold of Stuart toward the end of the work day, but Stuart was typically unavailable. According to the GPS tracking data, Stuart was taking long lunches and leaving work early, which explained why he was always hard to find. Not only was Stuart leaving work early, but he was also claiming 10-hour working days from 6:00am to 5:00pm — which granted him overtime pay. Read the rest of this entry »

Anyone operating a fleet of vehicles — whether its cars, vans, buses, or trucks — needs to be making use of GPS fleet tracking tools. These tools are not simply handy to have when you need to change routes on the fly. They can be instrumental tools for your entire business. Whether you’re in the office or on the road, the right GPS tools and features can also help you track productivity and improve safety standards for your drivers.

Here are just a few of the ways you can use GPS tracking features for fleet management to save your company money. Read the rest of this entry »

The webbed-winged creatures that have long been a mystery to most people are now offering researchers a chance to find out more about them thanks to GPS tracking technology.

In the United States, bats are being linked to a deadly fungal condition called the white-nose syndrome, which is estimated to have killed up to 6.7 million bats throughout the US and in Canada, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. This estimate represents an alarming and significant increase of bat fatalities from previous estimates.

At its current rate of spread, the disease could spread to California in less than five years. Evidence of the disease was first found in a bat cave in New York in 2006, but has been rapidly spreading. States as far south as Alabama and as far west as Missouri are seeing evidence of the fungal syndrome, which has spread to 21 states in America and 4 provinces in Canada. Read the rest of this entry »