GSatTrack How to Series: Emergency Contacts and I/O Mapping Templates
Scott explains how emergency contacts work with I/O mapping templates to ensure GSatTrack is sending notifications when SOS procedures are initiated by devices in the field.
Snow Season Telematics
Every year, snowfall accumulates on over 3 million acres of North America, covering nearly 70% of its population in snow. The effects of this precipitation impact the US with nearly 76,000 people injured in traffic accidents each year. In Canada, 30% of all automobile accidents are specifically attributed to...
GSatTrack How to Series: Map Mode Indicator
Scott explains recent changes to the Map Mode Indicator, which allows users to control the viewing experience and switch between Live Mode and History Modes for any map view.
GSatTrack How to Series: Improved Shared Views
New Shared Views make it easier to share your data!
GSatTrack How to Series: Scheduling Reports
Automate the running and sending of reports by creating a custom schedule.
GSatTrack Changes
GSatTrack saw two major updates go live in the past week, both of which were aimed directly at making things easier for all GSatTrack users. We made some major changes to the Navigation Panel and to the way users view Assets in the portal. Next, we noticed that the Shared Views feature was...
GSatTrack How to Series: Generate Alert Summary Report
Scott walks us through Alert Summary Reports, which provide managers with an easily viewable list of the Alerts generated by selected Assets over a designated time frame.
GSatTrack How to Series: Generating Activity Reports
Scott walks us through the process of generating an activity report, which can be used in the portal or exported for your convenience.
SitRep: Delivered
Every 15 minutes, you can look up into the sky from anywhere on earth and if you have great eyesight or a telescope, chances are you will see a tiny moving dot in the sky - no it’s not a bird, not a plane, not Superman, but it could be an Iridium Satellite orbiting across the globe.
Iridium is...
Juggernaut Battle Incoming: Starlink vs. Kuiper
Joining SpaceX in the race to establish a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation, Amazon announced on Thursday, 30 July, 2020 that the company would be investing $10 Billion in Project Kuiper, a new...
GSatTrack How to Series: Acknowledging Alerts
Alerts are a great tool for monitoring your Asset ecosystem, and there is an option to turn on Alert Acknowledgement. Scott walks us through what the Acknowledgement process looks like.
GSatTrack How to Series: Add WMS Feed Map Layers
Scott walks us through the process of adding custom WMS feeds to enhance users' ability to interact with their ecosystem by viewing it with external data overlaid on the map interface.
GSatTrack and satellite-based systems aid wildfire prevention tactics
In the spring of 2019, I wrote a case study on how monitoring chipper data and harvesting forest fuel could reduce forest fires. Little did I know during the next 18 months the world would see catastrophic fires across the globe. In August of 2019 the Amazon was seeing over 1000 fires a day. By January of 2020,...
GSatTrack How to Series: Exporting Reports to KML Files
Scott shows us how to export Asset Activity Reports as KML files to be used with other products like Google Earth, or to be used in the portal in the future if an Asset is ever removed.
GSatTrack How to Series: Generating and Exporting Reports
Reports help managers generate summary logs for offline use, and Scott demonstrates the ease of creation and export options available to users.
Designing for Growth
Designing, building, and launching products in any industry is perhaps the purest test of a company’s core competencies. With a multitude of factors at play, and an unmistakable talent requirement, innovating for success is a challenge most firms are not equipped to achieve. GSE is a relatively small firm for its...
GSatTrack How to Series: Activity Reports
Scott walks us through Activity Reports, which can be customized to show the data that you need to analyze across your entire ecosystem.
GSatTrack How to Series: Two-way Messaging in Shared Views
Scott shows us one of the cool features of Shared Views- the ability to engage with Assets through two-way messaging. Try it with our Let's Go Micro Shared View to send us a message!
Peace of Mind with Quick Access to Emergency Backup Communications
When the unexpected disaster hits and cell towers go down, Satellite phones are the typical next means of communication. More often than not, however, extended time has elapsed since any use of those satellite phones. Satellite phones oten get misplaced, or ownership gets lost due to employee turnover, or the...
Let's Go Micro Shared View
Over the past few months, we have been planning and posting about a content series called Let’s Go Micro. It’s a pleasure to announce that we have finally launched the series, which will be following our Product Manager, Justin, our Social Media...