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Automobile tracking via GPS

This page is the outline of a GPS presentation on automobile navigation and tracking by Michael Woodburn at the University of Colorado, May 4, 2001.

Automobile Navigation and Tracking
Presented By:
Michael Woodburn
  1. Truck Tracking
    1. Problems for the company
      1. Side work
      2. Overtime padding
      3. Speeding
      4. Moonlighting
      5. Unknown timing estimates
    2. Solution: GPS tracking
    3. Current Products
      Mobile Time Clock
  2. Personal Navigation
    1. Problems for the driver
      1. Knowing where you are
      2. Knowing how to get somewhere
      3. Looking at a map while driving
      4. Taking wrong turns
      5. Getting stuck in traffic
    2. Solution: GPS personal navigation
      1. In-car GPS with integrated map
      2. Automated directions
      3. Easily visible map location
      4. Integrated traffic reports
      5. Automated alternate route find
    3. Difficulty: database size
    4. Current Products
      1. Car Nav
      2. Garmin
      3. Magellan Pioneer
        1. Adventure GPS
        2. voice recognition: Article
        3. mounting: Innovative Design Concepts
      4. VDODayton
      5. Traffic report integration: InfoGation
  3. Theft Recovery
    1. Problems for the car owner
      1. Car gets stolen
      2. Don't know where the car is
    2. Solution: On-board GPS receiver and transmitter
      1. Location transmission
        1. Radio
        2. Cellular modem
        3. Communications satellite
      2. Recovery
        1. Transmitted to home system
        2. Transmitter to police
    3. CurrentProducts
      Telegeotrack