We will have a formal announcement about this after the holidays.
Just last Tuesday, we lit up exactly 1,000 new units on GPS Insight for a new customer.
They all came online at the exact same time, which is not typical, but this had an interesting and noticeable effect on our daily processing.
Here is a graph we get each day which is typically 100% bell curve shaped. This indicates driving activity, and peaks during the middle of the day when most of the drivers of our tracked delivery vehicles, service vehicles, and government vehicles are out doing their jobs.
GPS Insight turns on 1000 new units
It was very evident when these devices started reporting to GPS Insight, so I thought I would point out the nice “bump” we got to our overall vehicle installed base Tuesday.
It is interesting to note that even though we have vehicles in 4 different timezones (6 if you include Alaska and Hawaii), and in 100 different types of business, they all wind up “smoothing each other out” to a single bell curve.
The street sweepers and a number of over the road/long haul vehicles work at night typically, which keeps our nighttime activity from dipping too low, and the early morning service workers (Construction, typically) get things off in a hurry starting around 4 AM MST (here in AZ this time of year that means 6 AM New York Time). The longer tail at the end of the day is because of overtime — drivers get going according to a schedule, but don’t always finish on time.
Some drivers drive to a workplace once a day, then there is no more movement until they leave to go home, and some drive all day long (e.g. delivery vans). When you you put together tens of thousands of vehicles though, across over 1,000 customers, things balance out and become pretty predictable.
GPS Tracking histogram / Bell Curve
Here’s a daily “by hour” for the whole month. The only anomaly is a slight dip in the 11:00 hour — I’m pretty sure that’s lunch related. I bet if our customers check the street view on their vehicles locations, there would be a lot of this stuff going on:
This is our Scion 4000 on the way to take a couple salespeople to the airport to head home after a week in the office:
19 minute lunch stop into the 11:00 Hour
In-N-Out stop for Joe Vidmar
Our Chicago guys only get into Scottsdale occasionally, and needed their In-N-Out Burger fix before heading back on Friday. Them & several other thousand drivers being tracked by GPS Insight around lunchtime. And now 1,000 more.
Rob.
December 20th, 2009 3:45 pm
Merry Christmas and a very Happy and prosperous New Year to you and yours, Rob. I can remember when selling 1,000 units was only a distant dream … in one day? Wow!
Pretty good testimony to your systems reserve capacity too. New units going through their initial ‘bedding’ down in the system at the same would presumably cause more load than 1.00 units already in the system would cause. Nice work.
If In-N-Out Burger is a company authorized stop, I think I should go search for your “Employment Application” form. Are you already working on the report that will document burgers consumed per stop?
December 20th, 2009 5:52 pm
Thanks Dave. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours as well Dave: http://www.gpsinsight.com/home/holiday