Gould Electronics - AVL Vehicle location and Tracking Solutions

Automatic Vehicle Location & Tracking Explained

Locate vehicles instantly and see what they’ve been up to.

Why Use Vehicle Tracking?

Delivering Significant Savings..

The cost of running a commercial vehicle and the associated costs of the driver can be huge. With this in mind reducing any personal or unnecessary mileage by a couple of miles per day, or managing to fit in an extra job each week, will deliver significant benefits to your customers.

Vehicle Tracking Explained

Covert and Low Powered..

Foretrack is the smallest and lowest powered device on the market, about the size of a matchbox! The low power consumption of the unit means that vehicle batteries will not be drained and assets such as trailers can be tracked using an independent power resource. See a web browser map example Click Here

How fourtrack works

Tracking System Features

Access vehicle data anywhere, anytime

• 100% web based with no software to install. Just log on over the internet. Vehicle information can be accessed from anywhere with an internet connection. A user could log on from home or even from a PDA device.

Street Level Mapping

• All the maps within Foretrack will zoom in to street level, ensuring a user can see exactly where a vehicle is located. See Example

Improved customer service

• Provide accurate ETA’s and assign drivers to nearest job.

Control of assets

• Locate vehicles instantly and see what they’ve been up to. See Example

Monitor and validate overtime and private mileage

• Verify timesheets and vehicle use day and night from any any PC with an Internet connection.

Geofence

Geofences

• Create fenced areas within the web page that recognise a vehicle entering and exiting, for example a driver’s home address or customer site. The number of geofences is unlimited.

• A location where vehicles are stored overnight can be fenced with an alarm recipient set to receive a text message or email if any of the vehicles move outside of the geofence.

• A company is able to prove that it’s vehicles entered a site on a particular date and time, a security company would be able to automatically generate e-mails to be sent to its customers proving a time they had visited their site overnight.

Set alarms

• Create alarms such as maximum speed that when exceeded alert pre-defined alarm recipients of the incident.
• Like a geofence, an alarm can inform alarm recipients when activated by text message and e-mail as well as the on-screen alert.
• A vehicle maximum speed alarm can be set that is activated when a vehicle exceeds a set speed limit.

Assess driver behaviour

• Monitor driver behaviour in terms of excessive acceleration and harsh braking, ensure your vehicles are being used as they should be.

Reduced fuel bills

• Cut out unnecessary mileage and driver idling.

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