GPS Tracking ROI

This is a previously published article, updated becuase the information it provides about GPS tracking is even more relevant today that when I started in the GPS tracking business lo these many years ago.

A 21yo environmental ‘freak” cum anarchist is implicated in several fire bombings in California.

The judge, asked about the release of this guy while he waits for further federal charges to be adjudicated stated: ……….he could not consider releasing Lewis unless GPS tracking was made available.”I’ve been advised by pretrial services that electronic monitoring could be enhanced by GPS, which would allow (us) to pinpoint his actual whereabouts,” Nowinski said. “(I) will not consider release until the technology is made available.”…..

Full story here: http://www.auburnjournal.com/articles/2005/02/18/news/top_stories/01firebombs.txt

Now keeping an apparently quite dangerous criminal under surveillance seems a creditable idea. Many don’t understand that for years the practice of “electronic surveillance” of criminals is a low-tech, analog easy to defeat “has been”.

Too bad more business owners don’t look closely at the advantages of GPS … they seem unwilling to know the truth about their business.

Kudos to Judge Nowinski

And if you are still focused on the much misunderstood \and often “dead wrong” nonsense on the web that focuses on GPS tracking as “spying” or an “invasion of privacy”, then this is well worth your careful consdieration.  What are you really trying to keep secret?

Ask most of my American, Australian or European readers to sum up their thoughts on Indai and you are likely to get such comments as “Third-world” country, poor, backwards and so on. GPS Tracking for Business is unlikely to be in their first response.  Highly unlikely.

Yet the number of news items I get on a weekly basis telling me about new, widesprad and innovative methods of using GPS tracking to help the bottom line of business and government is really astounding.

For every time I see a US-based news item about some luxury gold course or another buying a GPS for their gold carts I’ll see two or three “meaty” reports about government agencies and businesses in Indai putting GPS tracking to use and making it not only pay for itself, but add profit to boot.  Example:

CHENNAI: The state government has set up a modern control room at the state traffic planning cell (STPC) office on Kamarajar Salai to monitor the 122 GPS-enabled police patrol vehicles deployed along the national highways across the state.

“The new system will help the police patrol vehicles to reach the accident spot within two minutes of the incident. The movement of patrol vehicles will be monitored round the clock from the STPC office. Our main aim is to reduce the deaths due to road accidents,” state
minister KN Nehru told The Times Of India. He was talking to mediapersons after attending a review meeting to gauge the effectiveness of its initiatives to reduce the number of accidents in the state… full GPS tracking success story article here.

Now with all our “inventive genius, “first world” financial skills (oh, well maybe not) business acumen, education and so on, how come you have never read a story like this about your state or your city or business?

A bit mind boggling, isn’t it?  There has never been a better time to make GPS Tracking pay for itself.