Some important trends to watch for in GPS Tracking devices are listed here.  These trends and movement towards more tracking can be viewed either positively or negatively, depending upon your outlook.

Personal Monitoring. We are witnessing more electronic devices that are intended for tracking as they infiltrate our society.  These include GPS enabled smart phones, small unobtrusive personal tracking devices that can be hidden easily, vehicular tracking devices, watches and more.  With the footprint of tracking devices getting smaller, their integration into more things will grow.  Small power consumption allows them to stay active for days between charges, too.

Tracking Things. With the global economy in a mess, people are getting desperate and are turning to thievery to get things they want and need.  GPS Tracking systems are being placed throughout the world to monitor things like shipment of products and large expensive assets that are motorized and/or mobile.  Many businesses with significant investment in assets understand how important this is becoming as a daily activity for them.  Desperate people often do not think through what they are doing, so a simple active tracking device is all that is needed to ensure that expensive items are able to be located within minutes of a theft.

Tracking and the Law. More court systems are turning to GPS Tracking to help mete out sentences to those who are convicted of crimes (often theft, etc).  Since prison populations are swelling and the cost of incarceration growing at mammoth proportions, GPS Tracking can offer less expensive home detention style sentences that allows a person to serve out a sentence while still remaining in society and being productive at a job.  Also, it helps reduce the chances that they will return to jail.

We live in a time that demands that those who own things keep a closer eye on them to help prevent or mitigate damage from theft.  GPS Tracking provides a way to do this in an inexpensive fashion.  For just a few hundred dollars (and really less than that), you can know where your important things are and if there is a problem with theft.  Security systems for houses have their place, but a GPS Tracking device attached to expensive items that are stolen will help recover them in hours, not days, weeks, months, or possibly never.

GPS Tracking gives you what you need to add a good measure of peace of mind to your life.

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Whether you want to send your fleet through Africa or through the North America, the Informer Lite is the perfect GPS fleet tracking device. The Informer Lite is not only easy to use, but it is also an affordable solution to any fleet tracking problem.

There are many different parts of the Informer Lite that are entirely appealing. Not only does the Informer Lite include geo-fencing capabilities, but it also includes:

• Rapid Tracking: when this feature is turned on, a high-quality map will refresh every 30 seconds. This allows for real-time viewing of any vehicle that is being tracked.

• Speed Alerts: find out how fast one of your trucks is going, and gain alerts via text every time the speed limit you set is broken.

• Routing and Re-routing: send any of your trucks to any destination by providing detailed directions.

• Color Graphs and Reports: forget about trying to decipher difficult graphs and reports – all of the reports and graphs that come with the Informer Lite are colored and highly detailed.

It’s also easy to view your fleet with our Virtual Earth satellite function, which allows you to view any vehicle from the viewpoint of a satellite. Since the Informer Lite works in conjunction with our servers, any information that you want to keep can be stored in our servers for up to one year. Additionally, the Informer Lite is U.S Military and SAE certified, which makes it easy to track any government vehicles.

Installing the Informer Lite is also easy to do, since we have more than 1700 professional installers located throughout the United States. This device is generally placed underneath a vehicle’s dashboard, and the internal antenna that comes with the Informer Lite is strong enough to work through a truck’s dashboard.

Presently, the Informer Lite can be purchased for $295 (plus a $35 activation fee) through Rocky Mountain Tracking, Inc. We accept various types of payment including PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover. We also know that your privacy is important, which is why any package that we send to you will only be marked with a discrete “RMT” insignia.

If you’re looking for an inexpensive fleet tracking option, the Informer Lite is the best choice. There’s a reason why the Informer Lite is easily one of our most popular fleet trackers: this GPS tracking device is powerful, accurate, and easily affordable. Call one of our representatives today or order your Informer Lite online through our website.

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Police officers get a lot of bad press. They are stereotyped as donut lovers who are continually taking coffee breaks and who abuse the speed limits. And many of the police officers portrayed on TV are either seen as unintelligent or lazy. Police departments around the country are cracking down on their officers, demanding that they be consistently working and not taking unauthorized breaks. But how are they doing this?

The answer comes in the form of GPS trackers. These days GPS tracking devices are used for more than just monitoring shipments and keeping young drivers from speeding. They are being used to monitor police officers too. Real time tracking systems placed on a vehicle will send out signals to satellites. These signals will then be used to determine the unit’s exact location, direct of travel, and speed. This information can be viewed on any computer with internet access. The information from GPS tracking devices can be viewed on a digital map to create a precise picture of everywhere the vehicle went in a day and how long it remained parked in a specific location. This digital map can be used to verify that individuals are in the places that they claim to be.

In April of this year, a policeman in Massachusetts was asked to resign because of information that a GPS tracker attached to his vehicle had collected. According to the tracker, Ronald Goulet had been running personal errands instead of patrolling. The tracker proved that the former police officer frequently left the car idling or parked at his home or other residences. After this information was gathered, the police officer was suspended and he eventually resigned. The police department that he worked for has since been tracking all of their officers with GPS tracking devices.

Because of the findings of this Massachusetts police department, many departments will likely begin using GPS trackers in the next few months. It is always important that employees are consistently working hard while they are on the clock, but this is even more important for those who are employed by the government. It is the job of law enforcement officers to keep the citizens of their town safe, and they cannot be doing that if they are using their working hours for social visits and personal errands. Companies all over the country are severely punishing the employees who misuse company time and company vehicles. Police departments should be no different.

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Police dispatchers – the brains, eyes and mouth of the police force – are a crucial link in increasing police effectiveness. If the dispatcher can receive, process, and communicate information more quickly, then the police have a greater chance of getting to a crime scene in time to stop the crime. Police departments who have installed GPS tracking devices in their patrol cars give police dispatchers a tool so powerful that police can stop crimes that would otherwise occur too quickly for them to intervene.

Let’s illustrate the power of this tool with a walkthrough of relatively common crime: home burglary. First, we’ll look at how a police district that has not installed GPS car tracking in their police cruisers handles a home burglary.

A scared, frantic lady makes the call to 911, reporting the crime. The dispatcher spends 2 minutes recording information from to the call, before sending a radio call to officers on patrol. The dispatcher looks up the caller’s location on a map. 30 seconds later, the officers respond with their locations. The dispatcher frantically finds the officers’ positions on the map, and takes another 60 seconds to figure out which units to dispatch to the crime scene. The dispatcher then gets back on the radio, and dispatches the closest units to the scene. In 30 seconds, the called units confirm the dispatch. The police officers then take the next 60 seconds to look up the location on their own map, figure out the quickest way to get there, and start driving to the scene of the crime. If the police department is lucky, all necessary units are less than 8 minutes away from the crime scene.

In this scenario, the police who had no GPS car tracking were able to arrive and secure the situation in 13 minutes. While admirable, the thieves left a full 3 minutes before the police arrived, giving them a chance to get miles away from the crime scene.

Imagine the same scenario with a police department who has GPS car tracking installed in their police cars. The dispatcher still spends 2 minutes talking with the caller and records the situation information. This time, however, the dispatcher automatically finds the caller’s location on a map. The GPS tracking system allows the dispatcher to instantly see the locations of the officers in relation to the crime scene. Within 30 seconds, the dispatcher sends the GPS coordinates to the onboard navigation systems of the officers near the scene. All those officers have to do is follow the navigation directions, and 6 minutes later, arrive at the scene. Total time is 8 minutes, 30 seconds, which is enough time for officers to make it to the crime scene and apprehend the criminals.

GPS tracking allows police dispatchers to quickly and effectively coordinate police forces with zero guesswork, and zero wasted time. All of this means that police departments with GPS car tracking can provide a much safer place for all of us to live.

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Emergency rooms across the nation overflow with patients, making efficient use of time a top priority for doctors and nurses. As hospitals look for ways to increase effectiveness, treat more patients, and make sure each patient receives excellent care, some are looking to GPS tracking to help monitor the process.

One hospital in South Carolina now utilizes GPS tracking to monitor patients from the moment they check in. As each patient arrives, he or she receives a GPS tracking device to wear on the wrist, allowing hospital staff to see where that patient is at all times. As the person progress through emergency care and eventually receives a room assignment, each nurse or doctor can see the patient’s exact location, enabling faster and more efficient treatment. So far, the technology has been well received among both patients and hospital staff.

Before a patient arrives at the hospital, the ambulance or helicopter he’s traveling in will most likely be equipped with GPS vehicle tracking, enabling faster response time and most effective use of the vehicles in the fleet. When emergencies occur, knowledge of which vehicles are in the vicinity and which ones can reach an injured person the fastest could save lives.

In addition to patient monitoring, GPS tracking can also help hospitals keep track of equipment before, during, and after surgeries or procedures. Nurses report an average savings of fifteen minutes per shift when they can locate equipment with GPS tracking rather than spending time tracking down the items themselves. In a hospital setting, fifteen minutes could make the difference between life and death.

Outside the hospital, GPS can help monitor patients who have a tendency to roam and become lost. Many Alzheimer’s patients benefit from carrying tracking devices which allow caregivers to keep an eye on them remotely. If a patient should wander from home and become lost, the caregiver can pinpoint his or her location immediately. More and more GPS companies have begun catering to Alzheimer’s patients, with life alert systems and even GPS equipped shoes helping to make the safety of these elderly citizens a top priority.

Advances in medical care save thousands of lives each year, giving families more time to share with one another and a greater appreciation for the value of life. As more and more hospitals implement GPS tracking into their daily routines, the new capabilities will give doctors and nurses the support they need to continue the work of keeping people healthy.

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