Time is money. In many areas like the Canadian North, it is difficult to know the most efficient route to transport equipment or materials. Many areas are not mapped and roads are only known to few drivers.
Data Logging - GEOTrac was instrumental in mapping roads in the Canadian North using their GPS tracing as they were being built. A GPS device was attached to a vehicle at the time of road construction, and is now providing the most up to date maps to some of the most remote areas in the North.
Customizable detailed maps are being used by dispatchers to provide first-hand knowledge of field conditions on a daily basis. Our maps contain custom markers and the ability to save documents with detailed information right on the map. This allows a knowledge base to grow on the conditions of the field and can be shared throughout the company. This information saves valuable time when routing trucks or working in a particular area.
Automation - GEOTrac automates the information flow of timely and relevant in-field data to localized maps. This save a huge amount of time for dispatchers to keep routing information up to date. The information transfer from one dispatcher to another is immediate.
Turnkey - GEOTrac is a turnkey solution. We provide the hardware, web-based applications, reporting, mapping, inventory management, professional installation, training. Our solutions are quick and easy to implement.
Historical Data - GEOTrac's two-communication using SMS text messaging rather than expensive satellite phones is not only less expensive, but it also keeps a record of the communication in a inbox for the dispatcher to refer to later to take further action or store for up to one year. The transfer of this communication throughout the company for others to action also saves time vs writing out a phone call.
Broadcast Email - GEOTrac enables dispatchers and drivers to send and receive broadcast emails to a group of people notifying other drivers of dangerous conditions. You can't do that with satellite or cell phones!
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.