GPS Capabilities in IMS - GPSTrack

i-man's development team has been working on a solution to fill the gap between effective job management and the benefits of GPS tracking by incorporating GPS capabilities into the IMS system. Using the latest technology, IMS can now be enabled to capture a users coordinates and record them with job information.

The information can be used to verify when and where information was recorded and assist in locating personnel for scheduling purposes. This also improves the speed of creating efficient job runs by scheduling jobs nearest to each other or to a field workers last known position, helping to minimise travel and optimising time spent on productive work. In fact the need for scheduling can be reduced because field staff can find the nearest un-assigned job to their current position from their PDA without calling the office or being scheduled to a job.

The system can be used with most PDA's on the market but is more accurate with devices that have built in GPS, no other hardware is required.

Initial implementation of GPS capabilities into IMS has focused on the job management functions but will in future be incorporated into other areas like locating suppliers and recording when and where compliance forms have been completed.

IMS GPSTrack provides a cost effective solution that integrates into the existing job management system, providing the ability to verify when and where forms have been completed and locating where field staff are. This will assist in improving visibility without a costly GPS system that some employees may feel intrusive.

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