And then this morning, I was told to check out a company called GPS Insight and to read the GPS Insight Wiki. I am rather familiar with GPS and what this technology can do. A few months ago, a friend came to visit me and he took me for a ride as I was supposed to show him around but we lost our way. Can you believe that we lost our way in my hometown? Luckily he has his GPS with him and we found our way back to his hotel.
While my friend uses his GPS mostly for mapping and it is his dream to chart the whole of Malaysia on Google Earth using GPS and starting with the Klang Valley, GPS Insight is a company that offers vehicle tracking, mapping and reporting, routing and vehicle navigation.
Now, you may think where the link is between the express bus crash and GPS Insight. After reading the GPS Insight blog, though new but still informative, I am thinking that GPS Insight could very well be the solution. Express bus companies may own a few hundred to a few thousand vehicles and using GPS is the only way to track vehicles and in turn curb speeding drivers since companies in their operations room can track a vehicle from Point A to Point B and determine the speed that it has been running. GPS Insight using GPS technology with Google Earth could also provide the most cost efficient routes for vehicles and check if drivers are playing punk, this is a cost saving measure for fuel and time.
Based on the rates of GPS Insight at only $1.50 to $2 per vehicle per day, can you see that how much money it can save the company is just by using the services of GPS Insight? Definitely more than the average of $2 spent per vehicle per day since management can finally determine who has been dragging the journey trying to claim overtime, who has been doing private work with the vehicle and who has been speeding and incurring speeding tickets that have to be settled by the company and not the responsibility of the driver, just to name a few eye opening revelations.
The good thing is that GPS Insight supplies the hardware which they ship out as soon as an order is placed and once it is installed into the diagnostics port of the fleet of vehicles, these vehicles can then be tracked from the internet. If you are wondering why the hardware is plugged into the diagnostic port, this is because GPS Insight is the only company that could provide direct engine diagnostics.
Viewing Google Earth the whole day sounds like an interesting job but as someone who can't tolerate viewing 3D images for long, this is not a job I want!
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