Vehicle Security is a most first concern for all vehicle owners since a long time. Monitoring and managing the mobile assets are very important for any organization handling with the services, delivery or transport vehicles. Information technologies are better in supporting these functionalities from distinct locations and update the managers with the current aggregation of their movable assets.
A vehicle tracking solutions is nothing but the installation of an electronic device in a vehicle or fleet of vehicles, with the dedicated-designed computer software to make enable the owner or a third party to trace the vehicle’s exact location, collect data in the process from the field and deliver it to the owner of vehicle.
Vehicle tracking systems are simple devices used for track a truck and/or track a car location in real time. In Vehicle path tracking system the technology used is to determine the exact location of a vehicle using various methods like GPS and other radio navigation or broadcasting systems operated by satellites and ground supported stations.
Vehicle tracking systems are commonly used by transports and/or fleet operators for fleet management functions such as fleet tracing, routing, dispatch, on-board information and security.
The system functions with the help of different technologies like the Global Positioning System (GPS), traditional cellular network such as Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) and other radio frequency medium General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) or Radio Frequency Identification (RFID).
But GPS is more affective and accurate technology used for tracing in this field. As far as vehicle tracking in India is concerned now days, its uses and market are expected to increase within a couple of years.
Vehicle information like location details, speed, distance traveled etc. can be viewed on a digital mapping with the help of software via Internet. Even data can be stored and downloaded to a computer from the GPS unit at a base station and that can later be used for analysis purpose.
Now a day there are several types of vehicle tracking devices exists. Typically they are categories as:
- Passive: Passive devices store location, speed, heading and sometimes a trigger event such as key on/off, door open/closed and so and so. Once the vehicle returns back to home, the device is removed from the vehicle and the data is being downloaded to a computer for evaluation.
- Active: Active devices also collect the same information but it usually transmits the data in real time tracking via cellular or satellite networks to a computer or data center.
Now there are many vehicle tracking devices are available which combine both active and passive tracking abilities: when a cellular network is available and this tracking device is connected and it transmits data to a server; when a network is not available the device stores data in its internal memory and will transmit stored data to the server when the network becomes available again.
This system is an important tool for tracking each vehicle at a given period of time and now it is becoming increasingly popular for people having expensive cars and hence as a theft prevention and retrieval device.
We at, Webking Solutions also provide the affordable vehicle tracking solutions or location monitoring system for your transportation or travelling business that helps you to trace the exact position of your vehicle.