| GPS vehicle tracking and monitoring systems are | | | | necessary in the practice because of two main |
| based on GPRS data transmission. They provide | | | | reasons: |
| detailed information about vehicle movement hourly, | | | | 1. Possibility for remote tracking the location and |
| daily, weekly or monthly and all the tracking data can | | | | obtaining information for keeping the schedules, for |
| be viewed without restrictions back in time and date. | | | | deviations from preliminary set course or about |
| Most vehicle tracking systems visualize current vehicle | | | | problems, arising during travel. The centralized |
| position over Google maps. There is an option for | | | | processing of this information enables the increase in |
| visualizing car tracking route, too. You can see even | | | | the safety and the maximum quick reaction in |
| more details like direction, speed, duration of stay by | | | | emergency cases. |
| route distance, time and place of speeding if there is | | | | 2. Possibility to inform the passengers about: |
| one. If the vehicle has a special flow meter you can | | | | - approaching a station or a bus stop, so that they |
| get data for actual fuel consumption for the period. | | | | can prepare to get off; |
| More advances devices have capabilities of Event | | | | - arrival time and the next stop in the route; |
| Monitoring and Control Output, allowing users to | | | | - travel speed and eventual delays. |
| monitor lights, lifts, pumps, etc. and control locks, | | | | The system offered uses a single-chip GPS-receiver |
| horns, and even enable/disable the starter. | | | | in order to localize the vehicle. In the near future, it is |
| Advantages of GPS Car Tracking Systems | | | | expected that GPS-technologies will find more and |
| GPS car monitoring system significantly reduces fuel | | | | more civil applications, mainly due to their combining |
| costs by optimizing vehicles routes. This is leading to | | | | with the Internet technologies and the achievements |
| eliminating the abuse opportunities with company | | | | in the mobile communications. The information |
| cars. GPS vehicle tracking also reduces mobile cell | | | | received for the vehicle travel speed can be sent as |
| phone calls about determining the car position .Today | | | | SMS or e-mail to any computer which is connected |
| this is one of the best ways for company owners to | | | | with Internet or GSM-terminal. The system requires |
| control their staff and decrease phone bills. These | | | | coverage of the vehicle course by a GSM mobile |
| systems are useful for planning daily tasks for better | | | | operator aiming at exchange of commands and data |
| customer care and giving clients accurate information | | | | through SMS. Due to the TCPIIP application program |
| about the time of visiting. | | | | interface integrated it is possible to automatically and |
| GPS Car tracking systems | | | | distantly upgrade the software and the data |
| Defining the accurate location of vehicles (trains, | | | | (information about the course and the schedule, files |
| buses, trucks and other) in real time, is very | | | | with compressed speech) through FTP session. |