• GPS Installation: EVI to work for CEMEX USA

    Posted on February 2, 2012 by admin Comment

    Emergency Vehicle Installation is agreed to provide GPS supported services to CEMEX USA, the leading manufacturer of cement and ready-mix products. The cement company has the widest networking which covers from California to Florida and from Texas to Pennsylvania. It owns 12 cement plants, 49 distribution terminals, 49 aggregate mines and 283 ready mix concrete plants. The leading US based cement company feels it necessary to install the latest GPS technology to keep track on its mobile assets. So it has selected EVI for this purpose. Gene Hew-Len, CEO of GHL Technologies, whose subsidiary is EVI, commented, This new installation agreement will prove that EVI has the resources and capability to meet the GPS installation requirements of large enterprises with mobile assets in various locations throughout the country Read

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  • RMT asserts GPS tracking saves business money

    Posted on February 2, 2012 by admin Comment

    Rocky Mountain Tracking, Inc. (RMT) has asserted that the business community is getting enormous benefits by using GPS vehicle tracking devices. The latest technology saves some thousands of dollars per month of the industries. The saving comes due to reduction of fuel usage by implementing GPS tracking devices in the vehicles. The Founder and President of RMT, Brad Borst considers it as the biggest advantage of GPS tracking. The GPS supported devices inform the drivers about the short-cut routes towards the destination. It also reduces speeds and time. Ultimately it reduces fuel consumption and maintenance charge. A company using GPS track device can bring down 25 miles per week for each vehicle and one hour of overtime per week. Read

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  • NZ to detect terrorist strikes through GPS technology

    Posted on February 2, 2012 by admin Comment

    New Zealand is gearing up to adopt GPS technology for the early detection of biological strikes by terrorists, biosecurity threats and disease outbreaks. For this purpose the New Zealand government will start SurvINZ or Surveillance Information New Zealand by the end of the year. The Environmental Science and Research ESR will run the SurvINZ. Fiona Thomson-Carter, ESR Environmental Health General Manager stated, We need to have better information coming at an early time. She also confirmed that the integration of range of surveillance systems have put in action and making them more sensitive. GPS supported SurvINZ will provide information about health, food and safety, water surveillance and external surveillance. Read

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  • Berg Insight foresees handset navigation solutions boom

    Posted on February 1, 2012 by admin Comment

    The handset based on GPS navigation solutions will hit the market very soon. The analysis firm Berg Insight in its recent survey report empathetically mentioned that the shipments of handset based personal navigation solutions in Europe and the US will touch 12 million units by 2009. The previous year was very successful year for the cellular and navigation technologies. This is apparent from the facts and figures available to us. The shipment of handset based personal navigation solutions was around one million on-board and off-board systems in the fourth quarter. Johan Fagerberg is helpful about the market potential for mobile personal navigation services. The mobile phone manufacturers are very likely to add GPS technology in their products in near future. Read

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  • Sony’s first GPS device fails to lure users

    Posted on February 1, 2012 by admin Comment

    It seems that Sony’s first GPS device Nav-U NV-U70 has failed to lure the customers. Despite utmost care in producing the device, Sony failed to provide effective services. The Nav-U NV-U70 is meant for in-car use. It has a 3.5-inch LCD screen having the maps of the 48 contiguous states. However, the GPS device which Sony designed for the first time makes users go the extra mile far most of the time. It provides second-rate routes and undesirable instructions. For instance, a user searched for a Whole Food grocery store. The device instructed him to go 15 miles away from his location while the store branch was miles closer. So the other competitors of Sony, Garmin and TomTom will take an edge in the market. Read

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  • Montreal improves water rescue operation with GPS

    Posted on February 1, 2012 by admin Comment

    Now the fire department is alert round the clock. The firefighters are ever ready to rescue people from the danger. The reason is that they are now well-equipped with GPS technology. The Montreal fire department has fully implemented GPS technology for the rescue operations. Utilizing the technology, it launched new orange rigid inflatable boats, which are designed for stability, manoeuvrability and quick deployment. The boats carry GPS supported devices like map readers, radar and depth sounders. Michel Viau, the assistant director of Montreal fire says that these boats can be plopped in the water in a matter of moments and trained firefighters can be racing off to a boater in danger in about four minutes. Montreal has decided to spend 1.2 million dollars to modernize water rescue. With this amount, the department will impart training and purchase equipment and boats. Five boats will be purchased this summer and another five next year. Read

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  • GPS now as non-contact speed sensor

    Posted on January 31, 2012 by admin Comment

    The Racelogic VBox VBS20SL is another specific product from the world of GPS. VBS20SL can be said the seventh sense of the vehicle commuter, which not only will determine the speed and direction of vehicle but also give an accurate slip angle by making use of an advanced dual antenna GPS engine. That is why it has been named non-contact speed sensor; it is totally based upon GPS with multi-purpose facilities. This specific product from GPS, with the help of a built-in graphic, allows the users to configure and set up the unit without making use of a laptop. The VBS20SL also features Wide 4.5V to 30V operating range, Brake/Event trigger input, Pitch or Roll angle measurement, Yaw rate, True Heading Measurement, Can bus interface for data output, RS232 serial interface. VBS20SL can also be employed in connection with any VBOX GPS datalogger, and dataloggers of any third party. Read

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  • Amazing rescue: Thanks, GPS was with him!

    Posted on January 31, 2012 by admin Comment

    GPS equipment made it possible for 911 operator to find out Tony McClung, who had crashed badly 20 miles north of the Santa Fe airport. When the rescuer learnt that McClung was in trouble, they set off their search with binoculars and vehicles.Just about 45 minutes back, they had got message that McClung was in trouble, the operator began to locate him to and fro. On being asked by the 911 operator, whether McClung can recall any riverbeds or arroyos, he responded no but he has the GPS aboard his single-engine Cessna. The crew located and determine the whereabouts of McClung’s crashed plane, and saved him with the help of GPS. McClung suffered a broken collarbone, a gash on his forehead, and a broken nose, and the plane had broken into three parts by hitting a tree. Thanks, GPS was with him. Read

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  • SITS and VeriMAP signs mapping agreement

    Posted on January 31, 2012 by admin Comment

    VeriMAP Plus (a direct-digital aerial survey-mapping company )and Stockton Infrared Thermo Graphic(one of the USA’s main providers of infrared thermo graphic services)has signed up an agreement to combine the services and technology, and to give enlarged array of mapping services, with high resolution imagery. A thermal system, having a thermal focal plane array, fixed-mounted into the aircraft cabin has been developed by Verimap.All aircraft movements at 400 times per second are recorded by an IMU(inertial measurement unit), and the geographic-long -lat orientation solution is also given by an IMU. This is also tightly-coupled to GPS satellite that gives X, Y, Z positioning of the aircraft at all times. Through this, the need for GPS ground stations, which is used to resolve the final Imagery Geometry Solution, is eliminated. This agreement has brought about growth in new service line called Thermal MapIR in order to give great resolution ortho-rectified infrared (IR) large area imagery. Read

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  • GPS: Is it really useful for common consumers?

    Posted on January 30, 2012 by admin Comment

    Recently, a blog post by David Berlind dragged the attention of the consumers, who are targeted by the GPS solutions companies. It is seen that the prices of the GPS’s equipment are touching sky. They are outrageously expensive, like $500 to $700, when likened to the $10 map book, which may be more up-to-date. Magellan RoadMate 300 from Thales is consisted with least memory capacity, it almost comes essentially empty. It has to be downloaded with road-map data from a set of map CD’s employing a Windows PC, and its process of transferring is dog-slow, complicated and non-intuitive. RoadMate 300 has been an old model, and cannot be availed from the manufacturer, but yet they are in the market for sale. Thales’s upcoming 6000T can also upload real-time traffic route and data when caught in traffic jams. Its voice does not only say ‘Turn right’ but ‘Turn right on Maple Street’. What do you have to say on this? Read

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