The FoxTrax Vehicle Tracking System shows you where your vehicles are right now. There are two key components: the tracking device and our website. Once you purchase the tracking device, simply place it in or on the asset you wish to track. Then, log on to this website to begin tracking. Our vehicle tracking system provides many key features including: real-time tracking of speed, distance, time at address, etc. The following items explain more detail about our key features.
Contents
Real-Time Tracking: Where Are They Now?
Tracking History: Where Were They?
Dispatching: Who is Closest?
Reporting: Do You Have Reports?
Routing and Scheduling: How Can I Reduce Mileage?
How Do I Get Started?
Technical Details: How Does It Really Work?
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Real-Time Tracking: Where They Are Now
Drivers are represented on the map by icons with directional tick marks. Each driver gets a distinctive icon and color scheme. Click on a point to see more information. You can send the driver a text message right from the map.
Here is a screen shot of the map tracking a few drivers:
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Tracking History: Where Were They?
The Time / Date
form shows historical vehicle tracks.
Where was Fred for the last 15 minutes? You can
specify any number of drivers over any time period as long
as it doesn't return more than 1,000 points. We store data
for one year before archiving.
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Dispatching: Who is Closest?
Do you need to get somebody somewhere right now? Where is
218 Sylvester Ave.? And who is closest? The Address and Zip
Search
form answers these questions. In the screen shot
below we can see that Al Capone is already there. Click on
the Locate
links to mark the driver and the address.
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Reporting: Do You Have Reports?
Sometimes a map isn't enough, you need a report. Our reporting tool tells you where your drivers were, how long they were there, how long it took to get there, and what it all cost. The report builder makes it easy to include only the data that you want to see on each report.
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Routing and Scheduling: How Can I Reduce Mileage?
You can save a lot of mileage by scheduling new appointments near existing appointments. Our scheduling tool helps you minimize mileage by tracking the geographic coordinates of all your appointments so that when it is time to schedule a new appointment you can find out who will already be close by.
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How Do I Get Started?
Purchase a $69 phone/software package, activate the phone, and pay us $14.99 per month for each vehicle. Airtime will cost you about $6.00 per month. In return you receive access to a website with a map that shows you where your drivers are right now. The drivers just turn on the phone and start the tracking application. If you want, the phone can be used for calls while the tracker is running. The application is great for dispatching, time reporting, and mileage tracking!
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How It Really Works
A GPS-enabled phone or other dedicated GPS serves as a
tracking device.
The tracking device obtains
location coordinates (fixes), speed, and course from GPS satellites.
These coordinates are transmitted via a wireless phone network to the our
server when they are only a few seconds old. Users then view real-time
location, speed, and direction information on our online map at
http://foxtrax-online.com/map.php.
This means that you will know where your people are, where they've been, when they arrive, when they depart, and where they are heading. Furthermore, this information is stored and can be used to create reports that help you manage your people and respond quickly to customer inquiries and needs.
Our tracking system is an active
system. This means that fixes are
sent to our server when they are obtained. Passive
systems collect
data throughout the day. In a passive system the data must be taken from
each vehicle at the end of each day or week by an employee and loaded into
a computer. Passive systems
cannot tell you where your vehicles are right now so they cannot be used
for short-notice dispatching. Because getting the data out of a passive
system is a daily chore they are usually abandoned after a few weeks.
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