GPS Tracking ROI

Here’s a company who “gets it”.  cell phone coverage (GPRS) doesn’t reach everywhere, but you GPS Asset Tracking has to.  The answer?  seamless multimode.  Cheap cellular tracking when in range, world-wide satellite tracking when you’re not.

WINOOSKI, Vt., Nov 18, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Remote Intelligence Systems LLC. announces the introduction and market launch of the new ORBISAT 100 Dual Modem (GPS/GPRS/GSM) System.

The ORBISAT 100 System is a new Dual GPRS/GPS Satellite tracking and communications unit, designed for all asset

tracking, communications, protection and monitoring. The ORBISAT 100 is specifically designed to maximize coverage and availability of GPRS networks and GPS signal via the ORBCOMM LEO Satellite network and to take advantage of its double simm card and the Stellar GPS Satellite Communicator.

The ORBISAT 100 System is the first all-in-one Dual GPS/GPRS/GSM system to be commercialized in the USA and Latin America. The ORBISAT 100 incorporates a Stellar DS100 satellite subscriber communicator, double Simm Cards for GPRS communication, and sensors in a single enclosure, to provide 100% coverage either via ORBCOMM Satellite network or GPRS Coverage. Rest of the GPS tracking anywhere article here.

I’ve been listening to the arguments on both sides of the aisle for years now.  I’ve even had clients that were so “hard over” about the supposedly outrageous costs of satellite versus cellular data connectivity that they bought the wrong systems to suit their needs and totally wasted their money.

Satellite GPS Tracking can be very cost effective when compared to GPRS GPS Tracking.  And cheaper is not cheaper at all if it fails to do the job.  Don’t make decisions based on hype … het the facts.

From the day we start school through most of our lives we are obsessed with scores and grades.  Did we pull a 4.0?  Did our favorite team make the playoffs?  The list goes on.  GPS tracking is no different.  Everyone wants to know how good it is, usually they aretlaking about the actual accuracy of the ositions calculated by the receivers and outage times … zero is best.

Obviously the system won’t attain absolute perfect accuracy.  The specs for unclassifuied civilian use say basiclaly plus or minus 10 meters.  But usually the system itself perfrmns a lot better thna that.

How much better? Well, the USAF, the operators of the system for the worls, spend alot of time documenting pastperformance and predicting the future.  Here’s a snap shot of a tool you cna use any time, from anywhere inthe world, to see how well the system is meeting its goals:

Just go to the USAF Offical site and you can update your expectations any time you wish.

On impressive thing to notice.  This chart is showing 2 to 4 meter accuracy for most of the populated world, most of the time.  that’s amost five times better thna the performance standard.  Not too shabby.  The US militray is pretty unpopular these days, especially in the US where they are just ‘client soldiers’ off in Iraq while the rest of the country grapples with the “real war”, trying to kepe up the ortgagepayments on the house the “iover bought’ to impress.  But you might givve a thought to the people who spend their days, nights, weekends and holidays making a military system work five times betetr than designed for all US citizens along with everyone else in the world.  My hat is off to them.