Las Vegas Cabbies Embrace Surveillance
LAS VEGAS – As New York taxicab drivers continue to fight new requirements to install GPS, drivers in Las Vegas are embracing an older surveillance technology.
LAS VEGAS – As New York taxicab drivers continue to fight new requirements to install GPS, drivers in Las Vegas are embracing an older surveillance technology.
OTTAWA, CANADA – Netistix Technologies has been chosen to be the lead organization in a consortium of public and private organizations developing a low-cost consumer vehicle monitoring and information system.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Rosum Corp., a position location technology company, has received the Frost & Sullivan 2006 IP Communication Market Enabling Technology of the Year Award. The award recognizes Rosum's TV-GPS positioning technology as a solution to an important public safety issue - Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) E911 - and particularly in resolving the location of nomadic VoIP E911 callers.
NEW YORK — New York City cabbies are opposing plans to install GPS devices, or similar technology, in their vehicles.
Around midnight on September 25, 2005, Brien Worrell got a phone call from the Milford, Michigan police.
HACKENSACK, NJ — I.D. Systems, Inc., a provider of RFID-based wireless asset tracking and management solutions, has received a purchase order from Walgreen Co. to deploy I.D. Systems' Wireless Asset Net industrial fleet management system on a fleet of material handling vehicles at a Walgreens distribution center in Arizona.
Dallas, Texas-based Builders FirstSource (BFS), a leading manufacturer and supplier of structural building materials to homebuilders, has selected the Teletrac® FleetDirector® vehicle tracking and fleet management system for use in its fleet of nearly 1,500 trucks.
FT. LAUDERDALE, FL — With a goal of saving its customers $200,000 a year, First Fleet Corp. will conduct a study to address what it deemed the “runaway cost” of operating a private truck fleet.
PONTIAC, MI — Guidepoint Systems has begun shipping its GSM-based tracking fleet management solution to Northbrook, Ill.-based Donlen Corp.
I enjoy following the fleet management industry in the UK since it is among the most sophisticated in the world. Innovative trends often first appear in the UK, which makes for interesting conjecture as to whether they may be a prelude to what might emerge in the U.S. fleet market. One recent development was a controversial decision to test radio frequency identification (RFID) chips embedded in the license plates of vehicles. The UK Ministry of Transport gave the official go-ahead in August
SALISBURY, MD – Navtrak, Inc, a provider of GPS fleet productivity solutions, announced Aug. 24 the latest release of its Street Suite GPS monitoring, mapping, and reporting software.
BOCA RATON, FL – Siemens Communications, Inc., and @Road, Inc., a global provider of mobile resource management (MRM) and intelligent field service automation solutions, have announced that @Road has selected the Siemens MC75 wireless module for use in the @Road iWM 3150, a mobile Wi-Fi hub that can connect field service professionals to critical data in real time – even as they work on site.
SAN DIEGO — Networkcar, a Reynolds and Reynolds company specializing in remotely monitoring vehicle location and diagnostics, has been awarded an honorable mention in the 2005 Mobilizer Awards in the Large Deployment Category.
Event data recorders (EDR) — a simple device used to reconstruct accident parameters or an invasion of driver privacy? In a recent manslaughter case in Northern Kentucky, a man was pulled over by police but then sped off, leading to a pursuit that resulted in the officer’s fatal crash. Prosecution is attempting to retrieve EDR information from the suspect’s vehicle to help convict him at trial.
Several fleets are testing a new telematics-powered service called PHH Onboard. The service seeks to help fleets increase productivity of the driver and vehicle, improve risk management, and enhance vehicle performance.
More than 350 clients and affiliated fleet professionals attended the 2020 Lytx User Group Conference that was held Feb. 23-26, 2020 at the Loews Coronado Bay in San Diego, Calf.
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