How does the GEOTrac system work when re-positioning vehicles on a lease?
The term lease refers to a predefined geographical area on a construction or oil drill site. Often times, vehicles and assets are only moved very short distances on a lease. Picking up or dropping off equipment, repositioning vehicles slightly or building in one location. For the purpose of GEOTrac tracking, a 50 meter radius around the tracking device is used as pre-defined location area. This will mean that for the purpose of mapping or transmitting a location report, GEOTrac views the asset or vehicle as stationary. As long as the asset or vehicle does not move more than 50 meters at any one time, it is viewed as stationary. Once an asset or vehicle moves more than 50 meters at one time, a report is generated to notify new location. Why 50 meters? When a satellite is traveling overhead at 26,820 km/hr it will only pinpoint a location within certain default parameters. If the radius is shortened, the frequency of reporting would increase significantly causing possible congestion dela
