Garmin Nuvi 2475LT
GPS reviews on the Garmin Nuvi 2475LT
reveal a lot of positive attributes in this small, slender, well
designed GPS. The Garmin 2475LT is equipped with maps of the United
States, Europe, and Canada, and consumers get to personalize the device
through customizable features. Garmin has unified some of the best
features of higher end GPS units with new features and an affordable
price tag. Consumer reviews and expert opinions relate that the unit is
dependable, easy to use, and its clean design make it desirable global
satellite positioning unit. Ideally, the Garmin Nuvi 2475LT is for any
consumer that wants to buy an outstanding, practical, highly functional
GPS without overspending or breaking the bank to get one. A look at
reviews on the Garmin Nuvi 2475LT reveals that this global satellite
positioning system is synonymous with practicality.
TeleType Announces SmartTruckRoute: GPS Navigation App for Trucks
TeleType pioneered the GPS truck navigation industry in 2008, providing the first portable GPS navigation
system for trucks. The company recently announced their latest
innovation: SmartTruckRoute. This application is available on all
Android smartphones, and will soon be released for the iPhone and iPad
devices. SmartTruckRoute stands apart from other GPS navigation apps,
because it was designed with the specific needs of commercial trucks in
mind. The app is also the first server-based app, providing secure back
up of routes and location data.
“The Android app gives truck drivers peace of mind for about 10 cents a day, regardless of what other GPS they may be using as it provides an inexpensive back up system for truck navigation,” said Marleen Winer, TeleType’s V.P. of Business Development. The SmartTruckRoute app can be used as the sole GPS navigation system for truck fleets, or simply as a back up system for an existing method. The application can be used simultaneously with other smartphone functions, so the user can make and receive phone calls. The app also provides turn-by-turn instructions, which can be plugged in to the vehicle’s speaker system to avoid driver distraction.
Unlike many other navigation systems, this app was developed specifically for trucks, so it includes special features that a generic navigation devices wouldn’t. Some of these features include truck specific routes and maps, and supports Hazmat restrictions by class, which help the driver avoid restricted tunnels and routes based on the truck’s cargo. The driver can input specific information about the weight and size of the truck and receive routing considerations specific to his or her vehicle. The system can help the driver avoid one-way roads, low bridges and other clearances, load limits, and even sharp turns.
“The Android app gives truck drivers peace of mind for about 10 cents a day, regardless of what other GPS they may be using as it provides an inexpensive back up system for truck navigation,” said Marleen Winer, TeleType’s V.P. of Business Development. The SmartTruckRoute app can be used as the sole GPS navigation system for truck fleets, or simply as a back up system for an existing method. The application can be used simultaneously with other smartphone functions, so the user can make and receive phone calls. The app also provides turn-by-turn instructions, which can be plugged in to the vehicle’s speaker system to avoid driver distraction.
Unlike many other navigation systems, this app was developed specifically for trucks, so it includes special features that a generic navigation devices wouldn’t. Some of these features include truck specific routes and maps, and supports Hazmat restrictions by class, which help the driver avoid restricted tunnels and routes based on the truck’s cargo. The driver can input specific information about the weight and size of the truck and receive routing considerations specific to his or her vehicle. The system can help the driver avoid one-way roads, low bridges and other clearances, load limits, and even sharp turns.
GPS Fleet Management Offers Fuel Economy Function
GPS fleet management is one of the greatest advances ever in
industries that rely on the central control of multiple vehicles.
Delivery services, trash pickup, city bus systems, and taxi companies
are just some of the areas that have seen drastically increased
accuracy, oversight, and accountability since GPS was introduced to the
private sector. Now, a Seattle-based company is adding a new feature
that is sure to perk the ears of fleet managers who are looking to cut
costs anywhere possible.
Zonar, the creator of an already-popular GPS fleet management system, is now offering a fuel economy tracker to its other functions. Those other functions give managers an unprecedented level of control and automation over processes like inspections and maintenance needs monitoring. With the new function, managers will be able to quickly determine which route from A to B is the most fuel-efficient. With gas prices climbing and the economy still struggling to recover from a recession, every little bit helps. Cutting fuel costs by taking the best route translates into real savings, and this tool finally allows fleets to do it easily and quickly.
Here are the basics of the fuel economy tracker: The Zonar system works by logging sample data when a vehicle’s motion changes. For example, if a delivery truck continues at a steady 60 mph for five miles, only a few samples register. However, if a truck is traveling through the city, stopping at lights, changing lanes, and making frequent turns, samples register every few seconds. Since more speed and direction changes means lower fuel efficiency, Zonar’s system marks those routes as worse for fuel consumption.
This particular GPS fleet management software actually already includes a few other measures that improve fuel efficiency. Managers can set each vehicle’s tracker to send text message notifications if its driver is using poor driving techniques—accelerating too quickly, braking too hard, or leaving a vehicle idling for too long. When drivers know their vehicles are tattling on them, they are far less inclined to use these gas-guzzling techniques.
Zonar is certainly poised to become an even more popular GPS fleet management system than it is today, as grateful managers take advantage of the ability to lower fuel costs by rerouting vehicles.
Zonar, the creator of an already-popular GPS fleet management system, is now offering a fuel economy tracker to its other functions. Those other functions give managers an unprecedented level of control and automation over processes like inspections and maintenance needs monitoring. With the new function, managers will be able to quickly determine which route from A to B is the most fuel-efficient. With gas prices climbing and the economy still struggling to recover from a recession, every little bit helps. Cutting fuel costs by taking the best route translates into real savings, and this tool finally allows fleets to do it easily and quickly.
Here are the basics of the fuel economy tracker: The Zonar system works by logging sample data when a vehicle’s motion changes. For example, if a delivery truck continues at a steady 60 mph for five miles, only a few samples register. However, if a truck is traveling through the city, stopping at lights, changing lanes, and making frequent turns, samples register every few seconds. Since more speed and direction changes means lower fuel efficiency, Zonar’s system marks those routes as worse for fuel consumption.
This particular GPS fleet management software actually already includes a few other measures that improve fuel efficiency. Managers can set each vehicle’s tracker to send text message notifications if its driver is using poor driving techniques—accelerating too quickly, braking too hard, or leaving a vehicle idling for too long. When drivers know their vehicles are tattling on them, they are far less inclined to use these gas-guzzling techniques.
Zonar is certainly poised to become an even more popular GPS fleet management system than it is today, as grateful managers take advantage of the ability to lower fuel costs by rerouting vehicles.
Covert GPS Tracker PT8100
Real-Time Micro Portable GPS Tracking Device
The
PT-8100N utilizes state of the art location technology whether you need
to locate a child, person, or asset this GPS tracking device is one of
the world's smallest and lightest GPS trackers. This GPS tracker can be
located indoors and in other challenging places where conventional GPS
devices fail.
Features & Benefits:
- Locate On Demand
- Real-Time Tracking
- Scheduled Tracking - You configure time you want to track
- Locate Indoors - Hybrid Assisted GPS
- Battery Life 10 days
- Very Small Footprint, Great For Covert Use
What You Need To Know About The PT-8100N:
- Battery Life Is Dependent On How Many Locates You Do
- The PT-8100N Is Equipped With A Panic Button
- Monthly Service Is Based On Usage - View Plans
- There Are Overage Charges For Going Over Your Allocated
Number Of Locates - Zone Alerts Only Report When The Device Transmits Its
Location Inside The Zone - It Will NOT Automatically
Report A Zone Violation
CDMA trackers use AGPS technology, which allows the tracker to return a location in a challenging position, like inside a building. Unlike GSM technology, the data transmission cost is much more expensive. This is the reason service plans are tiered and overage charges apply if you go over your allocated plan limit. When selecting a plan, please choose one that will be consistent with the number of locates you plan to do. Going over your allocated number of locates will incur additional charges.
Specifications:
- Dimensions: 2.75" x 1.6" x 0.60"
- Weight: 1.76 ounces
- Operating Temperature: -4 to 140 degrees F
- Location Technology: Qualcomm gpsOne
- Position Accuracy:
> Open Sky: 15 to 30 feet
> Impaired: <60 feet 95% of the time - Extended Battery Options Available
How The PT-8100N GPS Tracker Works:
E-Mail & Cellphone Alerts:
The PT-8100N can be configured directly from our web portal to automatically send you an email and text message of every location generated by an "Interval Track". The email/text message will contain the address of the beacon at the time the location report was generated.
Zone Alerts:
The PT-8100N can also be configured from our web portal to send an alert if the device enters a zone that you set. In order for the PT-8100N to send an alert, the device must be actively reporting, i.e. set to interval tracking. As soon as the device sends a "Position Update" inside/outside the zone, it will trigger an alert.
What You Will Receive - Standard Configuration With Internal Battery
- PT-8100N AGPS Tracking Device
- 120 VAC Wall Charger
- 1 Year Warranty
- Free Technical Support
Countries Of Operation: United State & Canada Only
The History of Car GPS Navigation
It's tough to believe, but in-car GPS navigation has
already been around for more than a decade. Yet were it not for
politics—and Einstein's theory of relativity—we wouldn't even have it in
the first place.
Twenty years ago, a road trip meant a bunch of fold-out maps stuffed
into your glove box or your car door panel pockets. Pulling over,
unfolding one like a giant newspaper, and then figuring out where you
were and how it corresponded to what you were seeing through the
windshield was the norm. Along the way, those maps gave way to MapQuest
or Yahoo Maps print-outs, and now, fortunately, we've got portable
navigation devices (PNDs), in-dash GPS systems, and GPS-enabled
smartphones. Voice-enabled navigation is more commonplace than ever, as
the average PND price keeps getting lower and lower, and high-quality
navigation apps are available for most smartphones. Android phones even
come with free Google Maps with driving directions.
But to figure out how we got here, we need to first look at how it all began.
Einstein and the Origins of GPS
The U.S. Department of Defense first developed satellite-based global positioning technology for the military. An early satellite-based system dubbed TRANSIT was up and running as early as 1960, with more refined and precise versions involving multiple satellites in general military use by the early 1980s (pictured, right). But it wasn't until 2000 that precision GPS navigation became open to the public.
Publicly available GPS devices had already been around since the early 1980s. But the military added interference to the signals to ensure their own version was the only one that could be used with any precision. After four years of deliberations, President Clinton signed a bill in 2000 ordering the military to cease scrambling satellite signals used by civilians. This instantly upgraded the accuracy of the few consumer-based systems already in existence by a factor of 10, and opened the doors to a much larger, consumer electronics-based industry for GPS navigation.
Today, a network of 24 U.S.-based GPS satellites orbit the earth, ensuring that at least three are available at any one time for a device's position request anywhere on the globe. Russia's own GLONASS system of 22 satellites will soon work with some compatible smartphones in the U.S. for additional accuracy.
Most people don't realize that in order for global positioning to work, Einstein's theories of special relativity and general relativity must come into play. On a basic level, GPS finds your position by looking at the time stamp from a number of satellites orbiting the earth, how far away each one is from you, and how far apart each one is from the other. With that data, the system triangulates your position on the ground. But because of relativity, the clocks in the satellites advance ever so slightly faster than clocks on the surface of the Earth. Plus, moving clocks are slower than ones standing still—again, by a very tiny amount.
While those two effects work against each other, the net result isn't equal: You end up with a discrepancy of roughly 38 microseconds per day. That incredibly small difference is still enough to report your actual position off by miles, which would render the GPS system worthless, were it not for allowing for relativistic effects.
The Road to In-Car Navigation
Even after 2000, it would be a while before consumers would see GPS navigation in cars en masse. Fortunately, the dot com boom was already coming to the rescue. Beginning around the turn of the century, computer-generated, turn-by-turn directions from websites like MapQuest were a common sight. Not only were these websites godsends for finding unfamiliar hotels and restaurants, but they also assisted plenty of small businesses heavily reliant on driving—think of home improvement contractors, real estate agents, and freight services, just to name a few examples.
Map-based websites weren't perfect, though. Early routing algorithms were imprecise, and sometimes repeated steps over and over again—long lists of instructions that basically said to stay on the same road for 12 miles were a constant source of frustration. Plus, you still had to print them out and take them with you, which meant you needed to pull over to read the next few steps. And if you wandered off course, you were just as lost as you would have been with a map—worse, actually, if you left the actual map at home, since the printed directions were for one specific route.
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But to figure out how we got here, we need to first look at how it all began.
Einstein and the Origins of GPS
The U.S. Department of Defense first developed satellite-based global positioning technology for the military. An early satellite-based system dubbed TRANSIT was up and running as early as 1960, with more refined and precise versions involving multiple satellites in general military use by the early 1980s (pictured, right). But it wasn't until 2000 that precision GPS navigation became open to the public.
Publicly available GPS devices had already been around since the early 1980s. But the military added interference to the signals to ensure their own version was the only one that could be used with any precision. After four years of deliberations, President Clinton signed a bill in 2000 ordering the military to cease scrambling satellite signals used by civilians. This instantly upgraded the accuracy of the few consumer-based systems already in existence by a factor of 10, and opened the doors to a much larger, consumer electronics-based industry for GPS navigation.
Today, a network of 24 U.S.-based GPS satellites orbit the earth, ensuring that at least three are available at any one time for a device's position request anywhere on the globe. Russia's own GLONASS system of 22 satellites will soon work with some compatible smartphones in the U.S. for additional accuracy.
Most people don't realize that in order for global positioning to work, Einstein's theories of special relativity and general relativity must come into play. On a basic level, GPS finds your position by looking at the time stamp from a number of satellites orbiting the earth, how far away each one is from you, and how far apart each one is from the other. With that data, the system triangulates your position on the ground. But because of relativity, the clocks in the satellites advance ever so slightly faster than clocks on the surface of the Earth. Plus, moving clocks are slower than ones standing still—again, by a very tiny amount.
While those two effects work against each other, the net result isn't equal: You end up with a discrepancy of roughly 38 microseconds per day. That incredibly small difference is still enough to report your actual position off by miles, which would render the GPS system worthless, were it not for allowing for relativistic effects.
The Road to In-Car Navigation
Even after 2000, it would be a while before consumers would see GPS navigation in cars en masse. Fortunately, the dot com boom was already coming to the rescue. Beginning around the turn of the century, computer-generated, turn-by-turn directions from websites like MapQuest were a common sight. Not only were these websites godsends for finding unfamiliar hotels and restaurants, but they also assisted plenty of small businesses heavily reliant on driving—think of home improvement contractors, real estate agents, and freight services, just to name a few examples.
Map-based websites weren't perfect, though. Early routing algorithms were imprecise, and sometimes repeated steps over and over again—long lists of instructions that basically said to stay on the same road for 12 miles were a constant source of frustration. Plus, you still had to print them out and take them with you, which meant you needed to pull over to read the next few steps. And if you wandered off course, you were just as lost as you would have been with a map—worse, actually, if you left the actual map at home, since the printed directions were for one specific route.
http://www.pcmag.com/
Magellan RoadMate 5175T-LM
The Magellan RoadMate 5175T-LM Traveler
features lifetime map updates and traffic data. The TourDirector feature
lets users browse local attractions, set itineraries, and optimize
travel time from the unit's menus. Wi-Fi connectivity allows users to
browse the Web and update the unit's software.
Magellan's latest 5-inch GPS navigator aims to differentiate itself from the ever-shrinking portable navigation market with a pair of unique features that should make life easier for sufferers of wanderlust. The RoadMate 5175T-LM Traveler's TourDirector feature helps users to explore unfamiliar cities and Wi-Fi connectivity keeps them connected to the Web while on the go.
Magellan's latest 5-inch GPS navigator aims to differentiate itself from the ever-shrinking portable navigation market with a pair of unique features that should make life easier for sufferers of wanderlust. The RoadMate 5175T-LM Traveler's TourDirector feature helps users to explore unfamiliar cities and Wi-Fi connectivity keeps them connected to the Web while on the go.
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