myGeoTracking: Asset Tracking & Monitoring Service

Abaq.us provides hosted custom, geotracking service to enable tracking & monitoring of valuable assets. Abaq.us custom solutions can be employed in industries such Transportation, Government, Healthcare, Construction, and for Small-to-Medium sized businesses with field services personnel and assets.  It can also be employed by end-users with vehicle, pets & family tracking needs.   Abaq.us’ delivers this service as a hosted solution thus greatly reducing the total-cost-of-ownership for the end customers.

Benefits of a GPS based tracking solution

• Use real-time GPS vehicle tracking for easy mobile-resource-management to ensure good customer service.  Solution can ensure accurate pick-up & delivery times while ensuring beneficial utilization of company vehicles and personnel.
• Use GPS tracker device for time & attendance records (capture onsite arrival/departure times).  Improve employee productivity
• Effectively manage field personnel with real-time information and directives from HQ central offices.  
• Manage  efficient fuel consumption and provide better asset / vehicle allocations to operations team
• Get better insurance rates on vehicles that have a Real Time GPS system
• Locate lost or stolen property with exact location details and geographical positioning.
• Integrate asset history and live tracking data into business processes to improve accountability, planning and budget management.
• Provide safety and security to children, pets and other family members with direct assistance and support.

2.      myGeoTracking Service Details:

Abaq.us myGeoTracking service runs on top of the Abaq.us GeoWeb Services platform.  The service provides an interface to the end-customer’s tracking devices, a console for provisioning & management of these tracker devices; a web browser and smart-phone based monitoring application for live and historical location activities; an analytics engine and a reporting system connected to customer’s backend.

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                       i.            GPS Tracking Device

Abaq.us supplies GPS tracker HW based on specific solution requirements.    Abaq.us also provides a web gateway which can connect with any NMEA compliant GPS tracker device over a GSM / CDMA cellular network.  

If you have a device you can contact us by email at support@abaq.us to discuss how we can support it!

                     ii.            GPS enabled Smart Phone applications

Abaq.us phone apps enable you to Track, remotely configure, and view the history of any GPS tracker unit using a secure, easy-to-use mobile interface. The application is currently available on GPS enabled Blackberry, Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile phones.

                   iii.             Web based Administration tool

This is a provisioning tool for customers to manage deployment and provisioning of GPS Tracker devices across their assets.  The tool supports the following features:

·         Register and setup accounts for the mobile GPS tracker devices

·         Register and setup manager accounts for these customers. This includes assigning mobile tracker visibility for particular managers

·         Setup Location events based triggers to launch business rules processing

Once provisioned, the business customer will be able to monitor their tracker via Abaq.us’ browser based application (cockpit).  The application works with Google and specially-provisioned local maps.

                   iv.            Web based Tracking & Visualization application (Cockpit)

Abaq.us myGeoTracking cockpit displays data from various trackers. This application can be launched from within any web browser and displays live and historical tracker data on a local map. This application serves as the primary tool for the managers and provides the following features:  

·         Visualize user’s current location, history, groups of users on a Map. The visualization will be based on markers on top of the map.   

·         Add audio, pictures, video & text annotations to the tracks directly from the field

·         Support for Google.  This can be switched to other local map layer based on customization requirements

·         Visualize other types of gps tracker sensor data including battery, external input such as audio & temperature, ignition on-off etc.

                     v.             Alerts

The myGeoTracking service enables an administrator to setup various rules to trigger SMS, Email and phone call based alerts based on geo-sensor readings by a tracking device.   Rules can be set to trigger alerts for device tampering, violating geo-fences, over-speeding, emergency alert, kid & patient safety alerts etc.

                   vi.            Business Rules Adaptor, Analytics & API

Abaq.us provides complete data portability and can hook GPS tracker device data such as Longitude, latitude, address, speed, signal strength, battery level, external inputs, geo-fences, and waypoints into a customer’s business rules engine.   Abaq.us provides analytics on this data and a web-services based API for custom-integration with internal business processes OR external web resources e.g. payroll, accounting, dispatch center etc.  

                 vii.            Web Reports

Abaq.us offers industry standard data feeds such as CSV, XML, KML, JSON and web page based reports on the aforementioned data.

3.      Demonstration

A personal GPS based social application is available at www.myGeoTracking.com.  Please get in touch with us at info@abaq.us to setup a demonstration of myGeoTracking service connected to your specific GPS Tracker device.

                       

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Comments

[Ethan Mudgett]

Using GPS in the field of asset tracking is more than just about finding where the goods are according to the exact coordinates. It's about keeping them secure and on-time in order to gain the trust and confidence of clients and customers.