So we’ve been a little busy lately & I haven’t had much time to write for the blog.
We’ve been in our new office for a month now, and new or not, GPS antennas generally need to see the sky to work well.
However, this picture shows that they are still reasonably accurate, even inside a building, as this unit spent the night last night after we programmed it for one of our salespeople to put into her vehicle for testing purposes: (the arrow points to where the unit physically was inside our office):
It reported every minute with quite a few “bouncy” points which are due to inaccuracies from receiving bounced signals from the satellite through the halls of our office (this unit spent the night in an interior, no-windows office). Here is a picture of all the various reports (green indicating slight movement, blue indicating no movement):
Once it was installed in Alissa’s car (in the parking garage) and drove away at the end of her day, however, it tracked perfectly, once per minute, within about 5 feet of accuracy or so:
We have been testing our newest hardware offering, and are happy to see it track perfectly.
We put GPS tracking devices of various types on all of our employees’ vehicles for testing and training purposes. Thankfully, we do what our customers do, so our employees don’t mind: We use vehicle groups and permissions to only let a couple employees (the ones doing the development and testing) see all the vehicles. Everyone can see their own vehicle, which is useful when we go to customers and show our car parked in its exact parking space on a web browser or even a Blackberry, using satellite imagery.
Plus we get a discount.
Rob.