MapWorld’s location tracking using mobiles

Category: SMS | No Comments | Posted on September 14, 2005

CIOL has a story on Hyderabad-based MapWorld Technologies, which is developing an SMS-based application integrated with a Global Position System (GPS) for location tracking of vehicles and employees.

The company currently has maps of 16 Indian cities and is targeting transport companies, retail, manufacturing, automotive and other sectors, who have field personnel in large numbers.

According to MapWorld, the applications main map would be deployed on a central system and inputs would be loaded on to the employees’ mobile handset. “It’s a two-way communication. While users can still use it as a communicating tool, it also sends the employer, the specific location in the form of a pixel on the central system,

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