Text Messages vs Expensive Satellite Phones - Our solutions are the most affordable in the business, bottom line. Expensive satellite phones are now obsolete with the introduction of GEOTrac's two-way text messaging. It's everything you need without the expensive monthly airtime. Ideal for communicating updates in the field, requesting equipment or simply saying hello, our rugged mobile data terminal is simple to use and also provides a one-touch "Alert" button for emergency situations.
Fuel Consumption and Fuel Efficiency - The trucking industry is always concerned about the rising cost of diesel fuel for their trucks. GEOTrac can save your company thousands of dollars per day! How? Using global positioning systems we can monitor the speed of your trucks by calculating the distance between two coordinates and the time it takes to get from point A to point B. If transport trucks reduce their speed from 110 km/hr to 90 km/hr they reduce their fuel consumption by 25%.
As an example, if you take a round trip between Edmonton, Alberta to Grande Prairie, Alberta, it is 900 km. A standard day for many drivers. By increasing fuel efficiency from 2.55 km/l to 3.40 km/l, drivers save 87 litres when driving at 90 km/hr. The typical cost of diesel fuel in Edmonton at the time of publishing was $1.05, that's $91.35/truck. If a company has 50 trucks on the road, it's a $4,582 savings every day!
In the U.S., EPA data states that gas mileage usually decreases rapidly at speeds above 60 mph, and that as a rule of thumb, you can assume that each 5 mph you drive over 60 mph is like paying an additional $0.20 per gallon for gas.
Additionally, according to the DOT, an average a truck burns .9 gallons of fuel per hour idling. So a typical owner with 5 vehicles idling for about 1 hour a day is wasting 4.5 gallons of fuel each day. At an average fuel cost of $2.95 US per gallon, that's $13.41 US a day, $93.87 a week and $4,894.65 US a year.
We also monitor downtime for vehicles and employees. Our ability to determine when a vehicle is idling or shut off, indicates that productivity maybe dropping.
In-transit Visibility - Having in-transit visibility of a company's asset reassures the company that although the shipment may be late arriving, it will eventually get there. This prevents companies from buying and re-shipping equipment that is time sensitive to the construction or operations of a project.
Lower Insurance Costs - Reducing theft of shipments and keeping vehicle insurance lower are two great ways of saving money. GEOTrac's in-transit visibility of shipments is reassuring for insurance companies who face rising costs to insure valuable shipments. That means lower premiums for you as a customer, as much as 20%! Our ability to monitor the speed of vehicles in your fleet and notify dispatch provides a comfort level to insurance companies to keep your premiums low.
Preventative Maintenance - We help companies monitor the status of their equipment. Running time, idle time, mileage are all strong indicators of the maintenance required to keep your fleet running smoothly. GEOTrac can notify your company in advance of costly repairs while keeping equipment running safely.
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 Map2It 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.