We are excited to announce that Bruce Morehouse has joined Cliffhanger Solutions as Senior Consultant. With over 17 years of relevant GE Smallworld and Mobile GIS experience, Bruce is renowned and much sought after in the industry, with the reputation as a valuable team member. His work ethic and engineering talent precede him wherever he [...]
Back in 2016 we reported our initial findings with Smallworld v5 and addressed our concerns about performance. The main issue was startup performance and (map) rendering performance. After several (minor) releases from GE and a few more upgrade projects under our belt, here are our updated findings: Startup performance, while still slower than version 4, [...]
Did you know that besides the Atlas product line, Cliffhanger Solutions also provides resources for GIS consulting? This includes upgrades, (deferred) maintenance, development, customizations, and support on both GE Smallworld and ESRI. We have a number of Master Service Agreements in place to do just that. Just like our fast-growing customer base has found out, you [...]
Our goal, as engineers, is to come up with ideas on how to do things better, more efficient, while saving cost at the same time. Several of our clients use GPS for fleet management. A GPS device is installed in (maintenance) trucks, and data is collected and visualized on some dashboard applications. In the same vehicles, they also use tablets running our mapping software.
Fleet tracking using GPS
This eliminates the use of a dedicated GPS device and all the associated back-end software, servers, etc. And if you still want to use existing dashboards, simply use our platforms API to derive the data. One of the data sources is, you guessed it, is GPS. After some thinking we thought this was kind of silly: so we have a GPS device, sending data to a central location, which is then being ‘downloaded’ back into the trucks? But tablets and smartphones (both Android and iOS) have GPS build in. And the App is already sending data back and forth. So it doesn’t take a genius to realize that we can easily have the App to share its current location, to be shared an processed between users.