Device 4: Fleet Tracking Technology

Device 4: Fleet Tracking Technology

Purpose (Safety and Security): Fleet Tracking is the method by which a company uses GPS technology to track their vehicle fleets and other assets (e.g., Workers and Equipment), to ensure that their assets arrive at their destination. This device falls under safety and security, as the company wants to ensure that their products make it to their destination.

Applications (Industrial and Transportation): The main purpose of Fleet Tracking technology is to ensure that the shipments of their assets arrive at their destination, preferably on time. A secondary purpose of this technology is to ensure that the vehicles arrive at their destinations on time, to make sure that the employees are doing their jobs. This device falls under Industrial and Transportation, as its main purpose is to track a company's fleets.

Principles: They collect real time on when their fleets arrive at their destination, as well as how it takes for them to arrive at that destination, as well as any breaks that they might have taken during said trip.

Characteristics: In terms of general characteristics, there could be a potential argument in fleet tracking being an invasion of privacy, as the company is constantly tracking your movements. However, I would argue that the company is just making sure that their products arrive at their destination safely. Besides the risks, the obvious benefit to fleet tracking is making sure that your products are safely transported to their designated destination, which can also be used to ensure that your employees are healthy.

In terms of technical characteristics, fleet tracking technology generally doesn’t need to be moved as it will usually still be in one place, usually the main headquarters of whatever company is employing the technology.