Track your iPhone with AutoAlert

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You can use a GPS-enabled Apple iPhone as the tracking device in a new development announced by tracking specialist AutoAlert.

AutoAlert offers a range of Web-based tracking services, generally using more conventional on-board equipment, but it sees this as a cost-saving way for fleet operators to set up a tracking system without requiring separate vehicle based hardware.

The user downloads an "app" to the phone, which is then tracked via the same Web-based control panel interface used by other AutoAlert tracking systems.

Included in the package are various features such as route analysis and reporting (these require a monthly fee).

AutoAlert points out that the system is particularly useful where operators need to add or remove mobile units regularly, since there is no hardware to manage.

Whilst monitoring will normally be done via the desktop, the company says it is also possible to do the monitoring on another iPhone which can simply access the control panel via a mobile internet connection.

Despite reports that some iPhone "apps" have taken several weeks to gain approval, AutoAlert says this system was released in a record time of just two weeks.

You get hold of it via Apple's iTunes web site - not perhaps an obvious source for commercial telematics applications, though Apple would no doubt like to see it gaining more business appeal.

Printed in issue 44, Dec 09/Jan 2010 of m-logistics magazine.

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