PYterra GPS solutions have been designed for the safety, security, recovery and protection of a person’s asset. We possess a fully loaded enterprise solution enabling corporate fleets to become more efficient, resulting in increased fuel savings, improved customer service, and gaining complete control. The knowledge to know when, where and how your investment is being used is powerful. The ability to easily obtain this information from virtually anywhere is priceless. PYterra’s mission is to assure peace of mind of your valuables; keeping those assets secure and protected at all times is the greatest return on investment. This is our guarantee.

GPS tracking systems consist of a device installed in the vehicle, a central server and software for the owner to access the information. All GPS tracking devices use data from the U.S. Government’s constellation of Global Positioning System satellites to determine a vehicle’s location, speed and direction of travel.

The tracking device transmits data from GPS satellites overhead to a central computer server via either a communications satellite or, more often, via the local cellular phone network. The vehicle data is updated every 15 seconds to an average of 2 – 15 minutes, depending upon the owner’s preferences and manufacturer’s settings.

The central server makes the tracking data available to the system owner through the Internet. The owner logs onto the tracking company’s secure web server and sees their vehicle data on a map and in text form. Some tracking companies make the data available for download, so the owner could archive it on their own computer.

Let’s think about the planet for a second. In the turmoil of high gas prices and rising costs, GPS and location-based services continue to quietly provide us with a combination of savings and planetregenerating benefits.

According to the Aberdeen Group, “Companies who use MRM (mobile resource management) services have seen a 19.2 percent reduction in miles traveled since using the service. This factor results in less fuel consumption, which represents nearly 98 percent of the carbon dioxide emitted into the environment.” Sal Dhanani, co-founder of TeleNav, says, “It is extremely important in today’s society that enterprises recognize ways they can reduce their carbon footprints.”

Consumers who use a personal navigation device (PND) in their daily travels are beginning to see the same benefits, although they may not have understood the advantage when they bought their location device. In a recent article, Jeremy Lakota makes the following point: “Did you know that getting a GPS device is another way to go green and help the environment? If you already have a GPS, pat yourself on the back, because your car is less cluttered with the wasted trees of printed directions. As you know, most online map services serve up lots of printed ads along with the directions, so what often times should be one page of printed directions usually ends up as two or three.”

The list of environmental green effect of using GPS goes on and on. Each GPS application now takes fewer people, less bureaucracy, and fewer natural resources than it did before the age of GPS. It’s utterly green!