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Five Misconceptions About GPS Tracking

Though GPS seems to be a benison in civilian as well as the military applications, still there are myths about the tracking.

 

Living in the age that counts on technology for every means, GPS is the primary source of radio-navigation. It is technology that gives the exact geolocation and time to the GPS receiver. Because of the GPS-Global Positioning System, there has been a lot of affluence in the communication as well as the navigation. Though GPS seems to be a benison in civilian as well as the military applications, still there are myths about the tracking.

GPS tracking is the functions on devices and apps for the navigation and real-time location and sounds as a privilege, still there are many stereotypes and misconceptions associated when it comes to tracking. Here are the top 5 delusions about it:-

Hampering the trust of employees:

The primary myth about its installation came up in the form of “we trust our employees, so no GPS tracking”. This misconception about GPS tracking to hamper the trust in employees arose as a generalized query. The chief explanation that discarded the above myth can be comprehended as-  GPS tracking has resulted in improving the maintenance cost, increase in routing, safety for the drivers and a lot more factors.

GPS is all techie & complicated:

Today’s aviation industry and the fleet management system is well aware with the usage of GPS and serves them the best to track their airplanes and hardware. Although, GPS was introduced to be the easiest possible way of keeping a track record, some industries running with stereotypical technology and work culture found it a newbie for the industry and raised brows to accept it.

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Therefore, this second common myth can be overcome by knowing the ease of GPS in the industry. Many of the providers simply set up the basic GPS tracking system as technology is not just the main criteria behind setting it up. The general knowledge about installation and setting up a GPS can easily help even if it is not pre-installed by the provider. Thus, it breaks the myth behind GPS being an aid to the only tech-friendly businesses and people.

GPS tracking comes with a device that needs just a simple and quick installation on the vehicle/machine/device that has the need to be tracked. Therefore, a GPS receiver is installed in each of the vehicle as well as the user interface to keep a close eye over the navigation.

Use of GPS is expensive:

Some of the industry experts think that that using the GPS tracking is unnecessary to use and serves as an expensive approach. This is a major fallacy about the GPS tracking which serves to be advantageous as it furnishes the real-time location, status of the vehicle/machine, counts of stoppage and journey route, consumption of fuel, etc. This information turns up to be the useful data for keeping an eye over the complete structure and this way it turns up to be the cost optimizer.

With the GPS tracking and automated alerts, a complete picture about the fleet behavior can be analyzed. This track and real-time locator is a form to set the record and boost up the work in a lower installation rate. The condensed simplification of GPS tracking can be simply comprehended as a business booster and not an expensive service !!

GPS tracking is a product:

This above misconception about GPS tracking being an individual product is adopted by many and they think it can be manufactured by them in their own industry. GPS tracking needs to be thoroughly understood at its basic as a service and not a product.  The definition of GPS itself explains it as a technical aspect of navigating and communicating with vehicles, devices and finding the locations and keeping a track. Instead of considering of it as a product the industrial sector should comprehend its advantages and implement it for their betterment.

GPS is for big names:

In this epoch of startups and small businesses getting a hype in the industry, still many think that only big organizations reach the standard to afford a GPS tracking. Any business-whether small or big, can easily bare the GPS tracking unit to keep their system intact and well-functioning. Let it be any number of vehicles- 10s, 100s or 1000s, it will in all ways benefit from receiving accurate time and location from the domain.

All kind of businesses can easily take the advantage of GPS tracking and experience a good rate of growth in their specialization. Because of this, any industry can encounter increased revenue, real time customer response, live information and a lot more than that.

The reality behind these myths and misconceptions of wrongly interpreting GPS tracking is just the lack of information about GPS. Also, the GPS tracking is a service that needs minimum time and cost for its installation and yields maximum benefits to an individual or organization- no matter how big or small they are!


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