Garmin Fleet Management GPS tracking February 19, 2007
Posted by Rich in : GPS fleet tracking , trackbackGarmin, which dominates the consumer GPS market, entered the fleet tracking arena last week with the announcement of the Garmin Fleet Management Interface. This move is very similar to TomTom’s recent announcement of their WORK GPS fleet tracking system.
Like TomTom’s program, the Garmin Fleet Management Interface is designed to work with existing Garmin devices — the StreetPilot, nuvi and zumo lines. This could be an ideal solution for managers who need fleet tracking, and would also benefit from their drivers having a GPS navigation device.
The following units are all supported:
- Garmin nuvi 350
- Garmin nuvi 360
- Garmin nuvi 660
- Garmin nuvi 670
- Garmin nuvi 680
- Garmin StreetPilot c340
- Garmin StreetPilot c530
- Garmin StreetPilot c550
- Garmin StreetPilot 2720
- Garmin StreetPilot 2820
- Garmin StreetPilot 7200
- Garmin StreetPilot 7500
- Garmin zumo 550
Comments»
[…] The TomTom GO 715 is limited to to Western Europe however, and the company has not announced plans to expand it to North America. A more comprehensive solution, TomTom WORK active, is available in the U.S., Canada and Europe. It utilizes the TomTom GO 510, 710 and 910. Here is a a link where you can compare the features of these two TomTom WORK GPS fleet tracking options. The TomTom WORK solution is very similar to Garmin Fleet Management solution. […]
I found the Garmin Fleet Management Interface Developer too simple for real world usage. You are limited to 3 basic messaging features:
1) Display only
2) Display and acknowledge (shows an OK button)
3) Display a question (shows a YES button and a NO button)
Vincent,
Thanks for taking the time to report that. Garmin is famous for intuitive, but often oversimplified, menus.