subject: Why And Which Gps Locator Should You Use? [print this page] You must have heard a lot about this new technology called GPS, but what exactly is it? Global Positioning System is abbreviated to be known as GPS. This is the technology which helps locating a person, vehicle or an asset and storing the location details. This information can either be stored within the device consisting of GPS or in some other database.
You might feel the need of a GPS locator for domestic use or for your business. Tracking your child or loved one, your vehicle, the vehicle of your child or finding out where you are while driving, can be the reasons that would certainly make you think of this device. Talking in terms of business needs, if you wish to track the company vehicle, give directions to the driver or if you wish to know where the delivery vehicle is, then you must go in for a GPS tracker.
This device would help you stay at peace while your loved ones are out driving to some other place. You can keep a track of where they are heading to as this device tracks the location at regular intervals. You can also store this location information with you for future use. Suppose, your new office is at a place you never got to know the directions to, then you can store your house and your office on the device and make it appear on a map backdrop. This way you can get the directions to your office easily. A GPS device is generally on the higher side of price. If you want one that has specifications related to your needs then the cost may go up further.
As far as making a decision is concerned for the kind of GPS tracker you must opt for, this would mainly depend on your requirement. The basic classification of the device would be whether you want to know what the current location is or you need to know what the previous locations were. The former would be a real-time tracker and the latter would be a historical one.
1. A real-time or active tracker would be useful if you wish to know the current location at regular intervals and save the data for the same. It is also known as data pusher that keeps pushing the data to the connected server.
2. A historical or passive tracker would be worth it if you just want to know what places were visited in the entire trip. The information would be available only once you connect the device to a PC. This device is also known as the data logger as it stores the data within the device and makes it available later on.
Apart from these two, there is a third type of GPS locator that is always turned on and keeps on tracking the location at regular intervals. This type is the data puller. It can usually be found in cellular phones. It is used when the location of the user needs to be sent along with any other communication made through the device.
