Global Positioning System Tracking Technology Overview

GPS tracking system is a new technology developed nowadays as a result of development of Global Positioning System, Internet, wireless communication and 3S technologies. It is a great technological revolution on vehicle navigation field for solving the problems of vehicle management in recent years.

This concept of tracking is different than navigation concept. While navigation systems help the driver to reach the destination, the tracking systems use a base station (a server) to keep track of the vehicles without the intervention of the driver.

Types of Tracking And System Architecture:

Depending on the activities in which is used, this technology has been developed in these ways:

Passive tracking, also named off-line tracking, is the most inexpensive and cost effective solution to make a full control of the assets, especially for vehicles. This type of monitoring system does not have any visible or hidden operating payments and not need any wireless communication network.

Passive tracking, is based on devices that store GPS location, speed, heading and sometimes a trigger event for other systems such as key on/off, door open/close. These types of trackers are called data loggers. Modern GPS loggers have either a memory card slot, or internal flash memory and a USB port. Once the asset returns to a predetermined point, the device is removed and the data is downloaded to a computer for evaluation. Passive systems include auto download type that transfer data via wireless download.