Lone Worker Safety
The one use of location data that workers frequently want. What makes a safety system a safety system rather than a tracker with a safety label.
Procedure
Methods
Geofence events instead of continuous trails, position on alarm instead of continuous logging, totals instead of routes.
5 notes, in reading order
Proving You Turned Up
The commercial case that justifies most field deployments, and the narrow data it actually requires.
Analysis
Trackers, Plug-Ins and Phone Apps
Three ways to collect position, each with a different relationship to the person, and the one that follows them everywhere.
Reference
Route Planning and Optimisation
The use of location data with the clearest return and the least intrusion, because it works on rounds rather than on people.
Analysis
Mileage and Expenses
The purpose that needs totals rather than routes, and the one where automation removes a genuine irritation for everyone.
Procedure