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Global Positioning System is a well known technology, whose origins date back to the past century and derived from a project of the US Department of Defense: the NAVSTAR GPS.

Based on a fleet of about 25 satellites (medium earth orbit), it send signals to
GPS receivers to establish the Geographic location, time and some other spatial
variables.

Though developed to fulfill military uses, it was released to the public in 1983 and since then the commercial and scientific applications of GPS are almost countless. In fact, being GPS the only fully functional Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) at current days, it has become the standard - de facto - to locate a precise point on the surface of the Earth.

Navigational Systems

Following the rise of the Internet and the era of high speed communications, GPS technologies experienced a high peak of adoption coming from the Industry, in general.

Of course, navigational systems are the best known and more popularized of the derived applications of GPS and another related technology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), which in fact cope with the geography of a place, country, region or even the world. Being very basic, GPS establishes the coordinates and GIS shows the place.

It is very common nowadays that the cars are equipped with navigational systems, although the price of such devices is not exactly cheap.

GPS Insight

Among the offers of GPS products and services, GPS Insight is highly remarkable as a provider targeted at the niche of service and trucking companies. In plain words, they are best for the companies that manage a fleet of vehicles:

• Wholesalers
• Sales Forces
• Couriers
• Utilities
• Long Haul Trucking
• Taxi and Car Rentals

The star product offered by the company is the GPS Insight vehicle tracking system which consists of pieces of software and hardware packaged to be plugged easily in the vehicle diagnostic port.

GPS Insight Highlights

I checked the website and there is a lot of information about the product - there is even a GPS Insight support wiki for customers, very WEB 2.0 and a Blog for GPS vehicle tracking. As an excerpt, the following list shows what is more relevant and definitely marks the difference, which according to my humble opinion is the level of service offered.

• Detailed reporting of activities to better control expenses and avoid frauds
• Calculated Fuel Consumption
• Detection of Speed Violations, Non working time
• Tracking of Vehicle State of Performance
• Continuous and Easy Update of GeoBase
• Wide access from mobile devices; e.g. the mobile phone
• 24 Hour Shipping Policy
• Money back guarantee (30 days)
• 24×7 support, rated 12 in the scale of best time performance for support.
• Flexibility in the choice of options
• More than simply enough product information on the website.
• Interesting (and seemingly verifiable) testimonies of satisfied customers.
• Ease of Setup and Installation.
• Most of all, Better Business Bureau Accreditation, which on the Internet is the equivalent to a Certification of Honesty.