Vehicle tracking vs mobile phone tracking
As a business it is important to keep tabs on your main assets, your employees. For many companies there is a legal compliance issue, particularly when your staff are working alone away from your premises.
Whilst fixed in vehicle tracking will enable you to view the whereabouts of your vehicles, and your employees when they are driving them, once they are out of the vehicle they disappear from your system.
With mobile phone tracking you can view the location of the device at all times. When carried by an employee it will perform all of the functions of a fixed tracker when in a vehicle but also continue to work when the staff member is on foot.
One of the advantages of mobile phone tracking over fixed vehicle tracking comes in the form of grey fleet management - ie. the staff member is driving their own vehicle on company business. It's not realistic to fit trackers in all of your employees vehicles, much easier to issue them with tracked phones for their business mileage.
Lone Worker Protection
As an employer you are responsible for your staff whilst they are working for you. This is relatively easy whilst they are at your premises, but much more difficult once they leave. Lone workers can be vulnerable in many different situations and it is important that you take steps to minimise any risks.
Our mobile phone tracking system comes with lone worker protection as standard. This has a system of both yellow and red alerts which can be activated quickly, easily and discreetly should the need arise.
There are also speeding alerts and a range of other features which will help with compliance with health and safety regulations.
Tracking can pay for itself
Another advantage of keeping track of your employees is to ensure that they are working productively during their scheduled hours. Optimising their routes to maximise productivity can see you getting more work done within the same number of man hours.
Being able to re-route your resources based upon accurate location information will make your life easier and enable you to give a better service to your customers. You will also have accurate timesheet information and numerous reports available at the touch of a button.
We can prepare a report to show you how much you could save based on your current vehicle usage. For medium sized companies these savings can run into thousands of pounds, even taking into account the monthly cost of the tracking system.
Free trials are available so you can see how it all works and how it could benefit your business before paying out any money. All you needs is a suitable mobile phone which is 3G and GPS enabled. The software is downloaded to the phone in a matter of minutes and then you can log in online to see its location.
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