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I stumbled upon this project recently - www.fleetdynamics.com.au -  and have had some time speaking to the lead developer. It is essentially a GPS tracking system for vehicles, built by combining the Google Maps API, whizbang communications hardware, and some very cool .NET code. A great example of technology brought together to achieve something with real world value.

It’ll let you track your vehicles by polling the GPS grid every few seconds, then uploading the data to their servers via the mobile phone network. If you’ve got no mobile coverage, the unit queues the data until there is sufficient signal to transmit, and then uploads. It’ll cost you an initial $450 for a single unit, but that provides a years worth of tracking, and then it changes to a yearly subscription service of $90 every year thereafter.

There are comprehensive reports available too, such as travel outside of specific time frames, travel outside a specific radius, and travel over a certain speed, together with the usual plotting of routes, directions, altitudes, and speeds.

Check it out!