In the Canadian North the climate can be harsh. Much of the work in oil and gas happens at the coldest time of the year, winter. It's also the darkest. These conditions are necessary for transporting and using heavy equipment in the North. Ice highways across lakes, rivers and muskeg are used to travel to remote areas that would otherwise be impassable.
Ice Roads - These are dangerous conditions. GEOTrac is helping oil and gas, transportation and mining industries keep personnel safe. We can monitor the speed of trucks on ice roads and pinpoint an exact location if a truck gets stranded. High speeds on an ice road can cause waves under the ice. This wave breaks the ice at shoreline and causes a dangerous situation.
Alerts- In places like the Middle East, GEOTrac can be used to provide emergency "Alerts" if people are traveling in certain areas that are dangerous. Our portable tracking and communications kit (PTAC), goes where you go. Simply take this light-weight case and antenna with you and use our one touch "Alert" button to call for help.
Protecting the Environment - tracking and tracing potentially dangerous or hazardous materials through a sensitive ecological area to a work site, is critical. GEOTrac is currently being used to track and trace heating fuel that is transported by barges to communities in the far North. The McKenzie River Valley has become an important waterway for shipping fuel, medicine and food to residents in Nunavut, Northwest Territories and the Yukon. GEOTrac is watching overhead, making sure everything gets to where it should.
Reduce Speeding - GEOTrac can monitor the speed of vehicles and immediately notify a dispatcher to contact the driver to reduce speed on potentially dangerous roads.
GEO Fencing - Using GEO fencing, GEOTrac can simulate and enhance a RFID (radio frequency identification) solution for security. GEOTrac can alert a central dispatcher when a "tagged" vehicle or asset crosses a pre-defined map point. Rather than having a RFID receiver physically placed along a pre-defined route, GEOTrac can quickly erect a geo fence at any map point in the world and determine which asset or vehicle is the trigger.
Constant Communication Connection - GEOTrac provides "Lifeline" service between truck drivers and their families. Drivers can receive and send email for emergency situations at home or anywhere in the world. Satellite phones or cell coverage can be non-existent in remote areas, reliable two-way text messaging can sometimes mean the difference between life and death.
Natural Disasters - In catastrophic situations such as natural disasters, GEOTrac's two-way messaging is ideal because it relies on short burst data transfers. In cases of Hurricane Katrina or September 11, 2001, cell phone and satellite phone coverage was choked with high-bandwidth voice transfers and crashed the entire network. With GEOTrac that simple but critical message, gets through.
Top 10 "Did you Knows?" about GEOTrac
- Affordable global communications - We are the provider of affordable two-way communication using SMS text messaging AND global positioning systems. Other global providers use an expensive satellite phone as their communications solution. Local providers of cell phone communications and GPS have limited coverage and unreliable communications in rural or remote areas.
- Know your airtime costs in advance. We provide customers with a fixed cost for monthly airtime of two-way communications rather than expensive variable costs of satellite phones
- Data Loggers - We are the only company in the world that has data loggers in the Canadian North that can provide detailed information on roadways built for the oil and gas industry. Maps do not exist anywhere in the world with these new roadways.
- Custom mapping. Our Point2It mapping is unique because it provides more customization using industry specific markers than any other company.
- Personalized satellite imagery. Our Point2It mapping can be personalized so that a customer can feed their data on to our maps to build a company specific map.
- Industry specific maps. GEOTrac provides customers with several 3rd party generic feeds of data that can be layered on to their Point2It maps. Example: Air photos, well site data, pipeline data
- Your maps, your way. GEOTrac allow customers to use their own company specific data to generate a Point2It map, example: oil and gas and transportation.
- Simplicity. Customers only have to deal with one bill from GEOTrac for airtime, communication, hardware, middleware, mapping, installation, support and training.
- Complete visibility. Many companies using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) as their tracking solution are only getting half the picture of their shipments in transit. RFID depends on physically placing RFID readers along a standard route to notify when a shipment has passed a certain point. RFID solutions assume your shipment is delivered under ideal conditions and does not need to be re-routed to save you time or money. GEOTrac has in-transit visibility that allows you to re-route your shipments and continue monitor it's progress.
- GEO Fencing. Rather than using RFID as your tracking solution, try GEOTrac's GEO Fencing. GEO Fencing uses virtual map points that can be changed on the fly to notify your company once a shipment has passed a certain longitude or latitude. This allows companies to re-route shipments while in-transit while being notified that a shipment has passed a certain point. RFID is great for warehousing and inventory management but limited on its own as a global track and trace solution.