See previous posts for part 1: http://www.tracerpropak.com/2008/09/making-gps-cell-phone-tracking-work-for-you/
Tip #2: Improve Customer Satisfaction
Many enterprises deploy mobile installation and repair work forces. Customers can be alerted when support is within a certain distance, rather than wait during a lengthy window. Jobs can be done more quickly, as employee on-the-job calls are reduced (that is, they don’t have to report in their location and ETA). Likewise, dispatchers can manage bigger groups of resources by not having to make inefficient voice calls to individuals regarding their location.
Cross Posted from http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/How-to-Make-LocationBased-Applications-Work-for-Your-Enterprise/ Jaap Groot
An alternate method to track your cell phone does not rely on a line of site with the satellite. This method uses cell phone triangulation and the relative signal strength from several towers to determine your cell phone’s
Tracking without Satellite
location. The advantage with this method is that metro areas where tall buildings may block satellite line of sight allow you to track your cell phone as long as you have cell signal. It also works great when you are indoors. The disadvantage is that if your cell phone is an area without cell signal, it can not be tracked.
There are two ways to track a cell phone. The first method relies on a line of site with a satellite in the sky. This method is great because it can be used in rural areas where you do not have cell signal. Difficulties with this method is using it to track your cell phone in large metro areas where tall buildings can block the line of sight with the satellite. If your phone is indoors, line of sight becomes difficult as well. An alternate method to solve this problem is the subject of our next article.
GPS Tracking Cell Phones
Many cell phones can be tracked with the right software. To begin with, your phone needs to know where it is. If your cell phone does not know where it is, then tracking it becomes mute. How to track a cell phone becomes doable once your phone knows where it is. The two main methods for your cell phone will be described in a future article.
With the right software, your phone can report its location to a web server. It can use its internet connection to make this report to the server. Once the server knows where the phone is, it can overlay the location coordinates on a map that you and I can understand. All you need then, is ot access this server and you can tell where the phone is.
