GPS Tracking and Telematic Solutions for Embedded Platforms


Welcome!

"GPS Tracking is much more than just placing points on a map.
It's about increasing revenue, reducing costs, and keeping your drivers safe."




We are solution designers and integrators for GPS tracking and telematics in the fleet trucking, heavy equipment, and marine industries.   Please feel free to contact us regarding your GPS tracking and telematic needs.

Our currently available GPS Tracking and Telemetry software solutions support multiple platforms and includes the following features:
  • Fully configurable generation of targeted event types: Including: start, in-motion, stop, dormant, excessive speed, odometer triggered, geofence arrival/departure, temperature out-of-range, trailer drop/hook detection, secure corridor violation, digital inputs/outputs, and more.
  • Full custom event packet negotiation: This means that custom data packets can be defined on the client device which contains only the specific required data, thus reducing wireless data transmission costs..
  • Network efficient, low bandwidth: The communication protocol has been designed to provide all required telemetry data from the remote device in an extremely network efficient manner. The device could be configured to generate an event every 2 minutes 24 hour a day, 30 days a month, and still be under 1 megabyte of transmitted data. This allows a significant reduction in the cost of the wireless dataplan required to communicate with the device.
  • Bluetooth data transmission: Data transmission to a handheld device in the cab can be accomplished via Bluetooth. All generated events can be transmitted to the handheld Bluetooth device/phone to allow using the GPRS data plan of the phone to transmit data to the back-office servers. Or, generated events can be transmitted as usual over GPRS, while simultaneously sending special GPS events to the Bluetooth handheld to be used for hours of service reporting, or for in-car navigation.
  • Fully Customizable: The entire layout of the system is designed to be highly customizable. The system is divided into 3 major areas; the Event Generation level (typically using GPS information to generate events), the Protocol Handler level, and the Transport Media level. New Event Generation modules, Transport Media (such as satellite), and custom property types, can easily be added to the system. And this customization can be accomplished in such a way that upgrading to new versions of the client software can be performed with very little re-integration effort.
  • Supports multiple client devices: The client device software is available for J2ME (Java) capable devices, embedded Linux devices, and Windows CE/Mobile devices. The client software can even be configured to run on Windows XP laptops and devices when required. All of these devices can then communicate with the same server-side software.
  • Supports many types of peripheral modules and sensors: Available modules and sensors include: Temperature monitoring, Tire pressure monitoring, J1708 monitoring, Trailer drop/hook detection and identification, etc.
  • Back-office communication server: The basic backend server which can communicate with the client device is also available. The purpose of the server is to obtain and store events read from the client device, and provide the server side of the custom event packet negotiation. The actual datastore is configurable. Both MySQL, and SQL server, datastores are provided. Additional datastores may be implemented by using the defined interface.
  • Configurable rules-based event notification: Based on a defined set of rules, incoming server events can be analyzed and email notifications sent. For instance, a rule can be defined stating that a given vehicle should not leave it's home terminal on a weekend. If the defined rules determine that the vehicle has in fact left the yard on a weekend, an email notification will automatically be sent.
  • Web Interface: A web interface is also available which provides support for various mapping providers, and also includes the ability to create customized reports. A simple demo of the web interface is available at http://track.opengts.org/track/Track.
Source code for many of these features are available in our open-source projects OpenDMTP (Open Source Device Monitoring and Tracking Protocol), and OpenGTS (Open Source GPS Tracking System)

Let us help you design a GPS tracking system that fits your specific needs. Our level of support can range from simply providing help in downloading, building, and installing the available open source GPS tracking projects, to assisting you in custom hardware and software integration to create a full featured GPS tracking and telematics system.

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