IVMS – Just another specification to comply to; or a tool that empowers your site safety…?   “Safety first” is a slogan hailed by society on a daily basis.  Unfortunately, it has reached a point where it has become so general that people don’t give the attention to safety as it should…

IVMS/ GPS Tracking changes driver behaviour in the longer term: as soon as drivers know there are IVMS/ GPS Tracking systems in their vehicles, they slow down and they drive more gently. Nobody likes to be reported as a law breaker or as somebody that damages their employer’s vehicle – this makes…

Why is it said that IVMS incorporates logic at 4 levels? This is why: Level 1 – inside the vehicle. IVMS units are high-end GPS units that are programmable to make decisions inside the vehicle. These are decisions like warning a driver that a violation is about to be reported…

With security becoming more pertinent an issue amongst tradespeople, businesses with fleets and the owners of expensive assets, Digicore is helping to resolve problems of theft and vehicle misuse via a national reseller network for domestic grade GPS and IVMS products. Auto Electricians Australia wide are being invited to take…

Our discussion today is about the accuracy of GPS, the required underlying technology for IVMS.  “Why is the accuracy of GPS such an important thing when it gets to IVMS?” may well be asked. The answer is this: just about everything in IVMS relies on the accuracy of GPS technology.…

As we have shown before, the overlap between IVMS and GPS is that IVMS is GPS in a more advanced format: all IVMS systems have GPS units, but not all GPS units are suitable for IVMS purposes. As GPS becomes more and more commonly available and in use, there obviously…

There are a number of technologies evolving to keep track of staff and contractors moving around on a mine site, the two most important of which are personal trackers with GPS, and what is known as an RFID mesh. Personal trackers with GPS have the advantage that they provide 2-way…

There is a great demand to track millions of containers as they travel throughout the world, but no solution is perfect: the technology is simply not there. Let’s have a look at the options available and their shortcomings:

A major benefit of the Digicore IVMS system is that it has the ability to provide second-by-second data for purposes of accident investigations. IVMS units record data a number of times per second, but not all of this is sent back-to-base as this will generate a significant quantity of data,…

The question is often asked, what is the difference between IVMS and GPS? The short and simple answer is this: an IVMS system is also a GPS system, but not all GPS systems are IVMS systems.