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Tip #3: Peace of Mind

There is great relief in knowing that employees and assets will get to a destination safely and on time. Enterprises can know immediately when employees are speeding, are late to a destination, or are simply driving in an irresponsible manner. Employees can have access to a “panic button” should an emergency occur. Employers will instantly know where to provide immediate assistance, whether legally required to do so or not. If your company provides services to end users, think of the power of location when needed in an emergency and the value-add to your company’s offering.

Cross Posted from: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/How-to-Make-LocationBased-Applications-Work-for-Your-Enterprise/ Jaap Groot

You can save a lot of money just by knowing where your people and equipment are at any given point in time, according to Jaap Groot, CEO of FindWhere. Even better, you don’t necessarily have to spend a lot of money doing it since many cell phones and smart phones already come equipped with GPS receivers. All you have to do is enable it for your use. Groot explains how.
In a volatile economic environment, companies are looking to enterprise IT systems to reduce costs and increase operational efficiency. Location-enabled mobile phones offer a great series of management applications that can be integrated through enterprise IT systems. GPS receivers on smart phones and Web-based applications are making these technologies much more accessible to the smaller enterprise.

Location applications already have a reputation for saving large enterprises money. Yet the type and breadth of these applications-and their capabilities-continues to be unclear. This is in large part because GPS-enabled smart phone systems are only now becoming widely available, and software has been complex and expensive.

This article features five empowering tips for using location-based services to your advantage, based on my personal experience running two location-based services companies. Investment can be significant, depending on the size of the enterprise. But any cost or operation-oriented GPS application should provide return on investment well within six months.

The following five tips will help you better leverage your enterprises’ existing smart phones for innovative, location-based enterprise applications.

Tip #1: Companies Can Save Money

Companies save millions by using GPS tools to help reduce fuel costs and increase productivity. Fuel costs have become an absolute nightmare in the past few months in the United States. The cost of keeping vehicles on the road is increasing at an unprecedented rate.

A GPS tracking solution can save companies money by reducing unauthorized evening and weekend use of vehicles, optimizing job assignments based on location, reducing discretionary time and overtime hours, and monitoring to ensure that the most efficient routes are being used. In addition to gas costs, consider the fact that less mileage equals less vehicle maintenance.

Additionally, companies can use GPS to identify nonperformers through a location trail of assets, including employees who are not making efficient runs. This allows companies to explore better efficiencies for work force management.

Remaining Tips to be posted shortly: Check back.

Cross posted from http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/How-to-Make-LocationBased-Applications-Work-for-Your-Enterprise/ , Jaap Groot

While Location Based Solutions using GPS enabled smart phones are technology centric, Louis Vuitton enters this space with a “a series of value-added content products using low-tech location. Creativity at its top!”

The Louis Vuitton Soundwalk, a unique location-based urban soundtrack, produced in collaboration with Soundwalk is a cutting-edge audio guide, available in six languages, offerring a vibrant portrayal of three Chinese cities – Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai – following the footsteps of the three greatest icons of Chinese Cinema: Gong Li for Beijing, Shu Qi for Hong Kong and Joan Chen for Shanghai.

Ideally for people travelling to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, each hour-long soundwalk features a story whose narration perfectly synchronizes with the itinerary - the voice of the narrator geographically guides the physical visitor in real time through an area of a city or a district - accompanied by the signature sounds of the city. 

Full Article here: http://www.m-trends.org/2008/06/louis-vuitton-soundwalk.html

So gear up your Windows Mobile Hand held GPS Phone with the TracerProPak software, track your fleet with cell phone tracking capability and load up the Vuitton sound track for your listening pleasure and combine work with fun on the road.

Property Management Companies, Pharmaceutical Companies, HVAC Companies and any company that has workers outside the office will benefit from GPS enabled Location Based Solutions (LBS).  The compelling factors: High price of gas, slower economy, and the need to do more with less. 

How does it work? Workers use smart phones with software that use GPS location and time information to automatically start and stop work tickets, automatically fill in customer location and contact information.  And take this information and automatically update the companies sales, inventory, payroll, invoicing and work order systems.  Now that there is a great idea - I dont care who you are.