GPS Locator for Dementia and Alzheimer Cases

An Aid for Patients and Family members

As of the year 2016, cases of dementia spiked up to 564,000 in Canada, with an additional of roughly 25, 000 additional cases yearly. Health Care system might not be enough to cover the cost of care givers, medicine and equipment needed in attending the needs of the patients.

To be specific, Alzheimer’s disease is associated with a decline in memory or thinking skills severely which makes the person’s ability to perform daily task reduced. This kind of situations make the family members feel unsecured, worried and unfocused on their daily activities.

People who are suffering from this disease can suddenly forget everything anytime. That can happen when they are outside the house, traveling outside, at work or anywhere else. This could even possibly happen to those who were not properly diagnosed yet.

With the help of technology, a useful GPS locator app can help family members to have the access finding the location of their beloved elders. Whenever the disease suddenly attacks, family members who are great concerned can easily track the location of the patient and be able to bring them home immediately. This will help both the family members and also the health care system to maximize the use of the app. Care givers can now cover a larger number of patients and check them alternately.

This will also help the patients as they can freely move in a particular area without seeing unfamiliar faces. This would help them relax, explore the surrounding and enjoy without getting stressed in dealing with people they cannot recognize, or situations that are not familiar to them.

Now family members can go to work without worrying about their elderly’s welfare. They can focus on their job as long as they will not get a notification that the patient is not out of the safe zones set by the guardian himself/herself.  When emergency situation arises and the patient suddenly forgets, you can send someone to their location; this would save hours and worries from concerned family members and close friends as to the patient’s situation. 

This is very helpful and inexpensive way to help the industry and the health care system top maximize the budget is medicines and even research on how to cure the disease completely. The best thing about it is they don’t have to have a mobile phone.  They can have devices such as key chains, watches and new devices available in the market with GPS tracker. 

GPS tracker or family location sharing app can be very helpful in security, medical field and many more. With updates it can be improved to a more useful and helpful tool that can help leap the progress and turnaround time of help and responses especially in emergency situations. It can also be useful for our police officers especially during crime. Once used properly and efficiently this will help us save time and money and will definitely be an important tool not only in one country but around the world.  Do you have a family member or a friend who needs this app? There are several free apps online that you can let them try, you may download now, too!

10 Ways GPS Can Save Your Company Money

GPS technology is an unsung hero of our modern digital times, a backbone on which many innovative applications have grown to rely on. With commercial GPS companies can navigate, track and locate more effectively. GPS has been quietly changing technological landscapes in businesses across different industries. The impact is notably felt, though often understated: GPS improves efficiency, productivity and precision; ultimately helping companies save costs and maximize profitability.

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These are the 10 main ways GPS saves - and makes - money for companies:

1. Increased Navigational Efficiency and Productivity

• Driver's get lost less often.
• Driver's get to their destinations more quickly.
• Traffic apps powered by GPS enable diverting around bad traffic areas.
• Dispatchers or automated services can assign closest vehicles to targets.
• Better efficiency reduces overtime needed per workweek.
• Better operational efficiencies reduce wasted materials.

2. Better Accountability

• Vehicle speed and braking monitoring equals better speed consistency resulting in lower fuel consumption (reduced fuel costs is often the number one and most visible cost savings from GPS tracking).
• Less reckless driving via vehicle speed, braking and location monitoring.
• Reduces non-work related side trips with company vehicles, reducing mileage and required working hours.
• Track record of employees' locations for automatic billing and customer's audit.

3. Better Customer Service

• Faster arrival to client's locations.
• Customer's have access to tracking information from service providers resulting in less ambiguity.
• Customer data can contain deeper information enabling more streamlined and tailored services. 

4. Better Supply Chain Management

• Automatic asset tracking and Supply Chain Management (SCM) solutions minimize over and under stocking.
• GPS asset tracking and SCM help detect and correct inefficiencies in the supply chain.
• GPS SCM solutions help ensure timely and cost efficient deliveries.

5. Lower Maintenance Costs

• GPS enables automatic mileage recording, keeping a closer eye on maintenance schedules.
• Better driving habits by employees via GPS tracking results in less wear and tear on vehicles.
• Advanced monitoring of vehicle status and fault code warnings can prompt preventative maintenance.

6. Lower Administrative Costs with Increased Digitalization

• Automated tracking of vehicle mileage.
• Automated recording of employee's work hours spent at customer's work sites
• Employees can automatically clock in and out of work.

7. Worker Safety

• Prevention of workers working too many hours and being over legal working hours limits.
• Workers in remote areas remaining connected to the company.

8.  Lower Insurance Premiums

Insurance premiums for an expanding fleet vehicle can quickly become significant business costs. One way to lower insurance premiums is to track fleet vehicles with GPS tracking solutions. In the US, insurance premium discounts on GPS tracked vehicles can be very attractive: AAA Insurance, Liberty Mutual and USAA Insurance offer discounts that range from 18 to 33% respectively. Tracked vehicles are deemed to be of lower risk in many ways.

9. Theft and Loss Prevention

• GPS tracking is a theft deterrent.
• GPS tracking helpful for valuable asset recovery.

10. The Future

The world is at the advent of mass automated delivery by robots and drones, made possible by artificial intelligence and GPS technology. Domino’s Robotic Unit (DRU) has started pilot delivery their pizzas with robots while Amazon Prime Air is in mature stages of piloting drone parcel deliveries. We can expect these technologies to go main stream soon. Automation offers many advantages: it can be efficient and economical. For example, drone and robot deliveries can be integrated with systems in fulfillment centers to deliver goods automatically upon orders, throughout the day and night. Drones can also fly almost anywhere in the shortest route.

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