Are you someone who couldn’t find your way out of a paper bag? Or do you have kids who, unfortunately, can find their way into more dicey situations than they have a right to, and you only wish you had a way of keeping tabs on their whereabouts? Do you own a business with a fleet of vehicles and have a sneaking suspicion that not all the miles being logged on them are legitimate? Do you love to spend hours or days out on the water?

Unfortunately, South Africa is a high-crime country. Our crime rate is high when compared to other countries. For this reason, many people will get motor insurance or other insurance to protect their assets. Motor insurance is available to insure against accidents, damages and theft. In addition, because theft happens often, insurance for vehicles can be expensive. Insurance companies require vehicle owners to install immobilizers to reduce the risk of theft.

Some companies will also require the installation of tracking devices as well as immobilizers. Having your vehicle as secure as possible, for example, in a garage, behind a locked, fenced property with an alarm, all these steps will help to protect your valuable asset in the unfortunate event of a theft.

Global Positioning Systems (GPS) was originally developed by the US Armed Forces to help with naval and overland navigation. GPS uses a constellation of satellites to beam down encoded time signatures to receivers on the surface. By tracking the delay between when the time code says the signal was sent and when it actually arrived, GPS uses Einstein’s theory of relativity and four signals (three if altitude is known) to provide accurate tracking down to about two meters. GPS technology has been moving into the commercial sphere from the military since the 1990s.

Global Positioning System, or GPS, is a satellite based navigational technology which enables companies with large fleets of vehicles spread out over a large amount of territory to have a constant fix both on where their vehicles are, and where they have previously been.

Better Than Cellular

GPS fleet tracking has a great advantage over cellular communications between a company and its fleet drivers, simply because the satellite providing location information will not encounter dead zones the way cellular technology can. The link between GPS fleet tracking receivers and GPS satellites remains intact evening the presence of tall buildings or heavy foliage.