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TomTom work review with screenshots

Mar 10, 2006 gps navigation, software, tomtom

One of the products headlight of CeBIT which will begin the next 9 Mars in Hanover will be the service TomTom Work of the company Dutchwoman which proposes to combine navigation GPS and service of alignment GPS by going up way, making it possible to know in real time when are employed or vehicles.

The service TomTom Work functions via a peripheral of alignment GPS baptized TomTom Link which must be installed in each vehicle, making it possible to the users to transmit in mode OTA (Over The Air – via GPRS, EDGE or UMTS) the current position of this one (by using the GPS) or other information towards the center of service TomTom Webfleet – an interface Web of consultation of the géo localizations of such terminals -, the automatic whole of manner.

Envisaged for accessible for a maximum price from 2 €uros per day and vehicle, the service TomTom Work will be revealed officially at the time of the CeBIT living room which will be held in a few hours in Hanover. While waiting to have more information on this one, it is a Dutch webzine which had the occasion to test the service during a few times.

It comes out from it as well as the service Web TomTom Webfleet makes it possible to manage one or more vehicles simultaneously equipped with the peripheral TomTom Link, making it possible to know their position in real time on a numerical chart. For each vehicle, it is also possible to have more information on this one such as for example the list of its last displacements or its last actions carried out.
Indeed, TomTom Work makes it possible to intéragir in an interactive way between a PND of the type TomTom GO (new generation only?) and a distant Web server, that it is via the software of navigation GPS TomTom Navigator or directly via the service Web TomTom Webfleet. Thus, for each vehicle equipped with a PND with TomTom and peripheral TomTom Link, it will be possible to send requests to a given vehicle containing a place to visit.

Concretely speaking, the user of a PND TomTom GO will see to post in the software TomTom Navigator an icon indicating to him that a new message has just arrived. Once this message selected, a precise “order” is sent to the driver of the vehicle requiring of him to carry out a certain task in a certain place taken automatically into account by the software of navigation GPS. …
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