SCOUT Tracker - mobile application for online monitoring of transport

The SCOUT group provided in the summer of 2014 a solution component the "Basic monitoring" allowing to monitor movement of drivers about the help of mobile phones and tablets. First of all, the application will be useful for the companies working with hired transport on which it is not rational to install fixed navigation equipment. It is important to note that SCOUT Tracker is let out open source – thanks to it all software developers can finish the application according to the tasks.

SCOUT Tracker opens new opportunities for those who trust solutions of SCOUT group. The application installed on mobile devices of employees allows the companies to monitor work of transport driven by them. It will be estimated, certainly, by the organizations attracting third-party carriers. It is not profitable to them to spend funds for equipment of machines navigation equipment, but, at the same time, they have a need for simple tracking of movement. The service and also the taxi is about transport and logistic and service companies, express and operational. A number of partners of SCOUT Group were already convinced of advantages of a new product, having taken part in preliminary testing. On a test phase SCOUT Tracker proved the demand and technical readiness for full start.

"The principle of operation of application SCOUT Tracker is based on determination of coordinates and record of a trajectory of movement of the owner of the mobile device through satellite GLONASS/ GPS- the receiver and signals arriving from base stations of LBS and on networks Wi-Fi. Collecting information from several sources at once, the application determines coordinates with an accuracy of several meters. Data are transferred to the telematic server using the open ScoutOpen protocol. The user obtains information from the server in our or third-party software integrated with a System SCOUT through this protocol. The customizability allows to monitor movement constantly or periodically, depending on an interval which is set by the user", – Ivan Kotov, the top manager of products of SCOUT Group tells.

Available and simple in use, SCOUT Tracker allows to control location of phones and tablets on which Android OS of version 4.0 is installed above. The application can be downloaded free of charge on a Google service of Play and to use in the software SCOUT Platform and SCOUT 3 and also in any software which supports the ScoutOpen protocol.

"Today mobile applications find effective application practically in all spheres of business. The market of monitoring systems of transport is not an exception, and we are glad that experience and competence of specialists of SCOUT Group allow us not just to follow trends, and to be among the first. SCOUT Tracker distinguishes that he is continuation of our open policy. Earlier we submitted to the market the ScoutOpen protocol, service of integration of SPIK and the plaginny SPF system. SCOUT Tracker allows each developer to continue to improve the new product which is released open source, including, to adapt it for different mobile devices or even to create the new application as a part of the solutions", - Yury Visnevsky, the commercial director of SCOUT Group comments.

Work with the open code is conducted through the GitHub resource on which the repository of SCOUT Group is created. Here rules of support of the application SCOUT Tracker are laid out. The source code is available to users under the license of the open source GPL.

The link for free downloading SCOUT Tracker: [1]

The product description on the website of SCOUT Group: [2]

In more detail about settings: [3]

Application development on the basis of the source code is performed through an open repository of SCOUT Group: [4]