AVL for The City of Wentzville Automated Vehicle Location on Your GIS

What is AVL? AVL stands for Automatic Vehicle Location which is a term used for naming the system able to track vehicles, vessels, and mobile assets such as trailers, containers, and equipment, plot their coordinates into one or more computer generated maps and be able to interact with them in several ways. Triangulation – a cell phone is detected within a certain radius of each of 3 satellites – the area where each satellite overlaps the phone is where it is pinpointed.

Options For Collecting AVL Data Black Box Method Freeance Mobile (smartphone) Method Permanently mounted Only usable with vehicle Costly to replace Multi-functional device Can be used year round No cost to replace

What can I do with GPS AVL Tracking? Multiple Device Locates Rapid Tracking Geofencing Speed Alerts Full Color Reports & Graphs Color Aerial Photography History Storage History Reports and Maps Custom Mapping Custom Reporting

BENEFITS Real-time view of all vehicle locations, speed, and previous paths Status and level of completion for all operations Quicker/Better response to citizen concerns or emergency situations Ability of each worker to see their current location and previous path Cost operation reports, analysis, and evaluation of efficiency

Cost Analysis Price of the Blackberry (gps enabled) is free through government contract pricing Monthly data plan cost is $37.50 per phone, per month, but can be limited to only a monthly as-needed basis giving the option to turn some smartphones off when not in use. Phones would not be fully operational (data plan only) and would not replace current phones for staff members. Car charger for Blackberry’s $28/phone Staff training on phone and application use (1-3 hours per individual or group) Cost of Freeance Mobile software installation, implementation and training is $15, (one time charge) with an annual maintenance cost of $4, Freeance Mobile cost includes the following Supports unlimited number of Blackberry devices MapViewer Smart forms applications Web based configuration system Unlimited Web and administrator licenses Tracking and map viewer applications Where’s my team application which allows users in the field to see the location of other team members in the field Software maintenance, support and upgrades Training on Freeance functionality

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