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Trimble TrimTrac
Personal Tracking Device As wireless
communications costs decrease, a cost-effective AVL (automatic vehicle
location) tracking system can provide many of the same functions as more
expensive and rugged counterparts, while allowing you to gain market advantage. The TrimTrac locator is the first truly affordable mobile
vehicle tracking security and recovery device for the consumer automotive
market. It offers many of the same advantages as competing GPS and non-GPS
solutions, but for a fraction of the price. The device is smartly engineered to
deliver reliability and ongoing value to systems integrators and ASPs. And it's
built to last. Quality
Engineering From a Name You Can Trust – Trimble (www.trimble.com)
The TrimTrac
locator is backed by the GPS domain expertise and proven leadership of Trimble
Corporation and its Component Technologies division. Until now, personal
vehicle tracking has been an expensive service, within the means of only a
small percentage of customers. The TrimTrac™ locator
changes all that. As the world's first truly affordable and highly reliable
mobile tracking device, it offers application service providers and systems
integrators the opportunity to provide vehicle monitoring, security and
recovery services and a host of other services, to a broader number of
subscribers. What is the TrimTrac locator? The TrimTrac locator is a self-contained and complete packaged
end-user device. The size of a white board eraser, it automatically sends
periodic autonomous position reports as SMS text messages over a GSM
communications network. The device reports position only when motion is
detected or as requested by an application server or end-user. Key Features
To activate the TrimTrac locator to work with uLocate you will need a TrimTrac provisioned to communicate with uLocate and:
For more
information about the TrimTrac please visit http://www.trimtrac.com Where to Purchase To purchase a TrimTrac for use with uLocate please contact Novotech
Distribution. Novotech and uLocate work
closely to make your decision to use the TrimTrac a
smooth process. First, please
contact Novotech to purchase a TrimTrac. Novotech Distribution: 800-268-8628 Second, you
need to decide on a GSM carrier and purchase a SIM chip for the TrimTrac. There are
several alternatives. The best solution
depends on the frequency that you would like the TrimTrac
to report it’s location to the uLocate If you require
frequent updates it makes sense to subscribe to a plan that offers an unlimited
number of SMS messages. We use TMobile. Our plan
costs $19.99 for the least expensive voice plan plus $9.99 for unlimited SMS
messaging, for a total of $29.98. Michael Roberts Another alternative is a pay-as-you-go plan. Novotech has an Affinity Agreement with KORE Wireless, a Virtual Mobile Operator 100% focused on delivering wholesale GSM-based services to the telemetry and telematics markets throughout North America who can provide an activated KORE SIM for $13.80. There is a Monthly Access Fee of $ 3.05 for each device, plus $ 0.059 per SMS message (location sent or message received by the TrimTrac) in the and $.020 per message in Canada. For more information on KORE Wireless please contact Novotech or KORE directly at: Ian Munro Provisioning your TrimTrac Please have your TrimTrac supplier configure your TrimTrac with the factory defaults with the following exception: For use with uLocate the modem number must be set to 15083338332 If you want to be able to change your configurations you must purchase a provisioning module for use with a Windows PC. The cost of the provisioning module and software is $ 300.00 
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