Just a quick post to announce the launch of the JoeyTracker at Tufts University. We worked a couple of Tufts students to help them bring the project to life and allow them to track their campus bus (aka “The Joey”) online. Read this article posted by the Tufts Daily if you’re interested in more details.

If you’re really bored and decide you want to lobby for a GPS bus tracker on your campus then be sure to check out the video below. I recently posted this article about a Tufts GPS bus tracking project with Ublip. At Ublip, we’re working hard to connect people with remote assets and this project is a great demonstration of our technology foundation.

We recently put together a video at Ublip demonstrating how to install our simple vehicle fleet tracking product. The video details one of a few different options for powering the device. This one covers our cigarette lighter install and we should have an OBD video available soon. Some of the things you can do with Ublip’s GPS tracking product is:

- Know where a vehicle is at all times
- Know where a vehicle has been
- Generate reports of where a vehicle has stopped
- Generate reports of where a vehicle has entered or exited a predetermined zone
- Consume a GeoRSS feed to integrate a vehicle’s location with you own application or website

Using the Ublip fleet tracking app is even easier than the install. Check out a real demo here and here’s the video:

One of my pet projects at Ublip is focusing on building an online community centered around M2M. If you’re interested in learning more about the M2M industry then I encourage you to check out www.m2mforums.com. The site is in its infancy, but there’s already a strong community of knowledgeable experts talking about all different aspects of M2M. If you’re not familiar with the industry let me explain the overall problem. Right now there are so many areas of fragmentation that starts with sensors and embedded devices, wireless networks and protocols, middleware software, database, and ultimately web applications. There are so many different implementations and suggested standards in each of these area it will make your head spin.

The goal of M2MForums is to create a community where this information can be shared across different areas of the value chain. Since I’m a guy that is heavily involved with Web development I may be able to  provide suggestions and best practices to an embedded guy work on an implementation. This is a two way street and there are so many areas and nitty-gritty details to understand. I could ramble on and on, but please feel free to join and I look forward to seeing you over there!

The cat is out of the bag. At Ublip, we’ve just released our easy to use GPS tracking system that is very affordable and can be self-installed. If you analyze a majority of our competitor’s offerings you’ll notice the “kitchen sink” approach where the GPS software has every feature under the sun. We believe we’ve baked in just the features you need to locate your assets, view basic reports, geofences, and notifications. Of course we’ll be extending the product, but our current customer base is extremely pleased with the features that are available out of the box. In the world of GPS vehicle tracking, fleet management, or whatever name you prefer, we believe there’s a HUGE opportunity to make GPS asset tracking more approachable from both a technology and cost perspective. Check out a tour of our web-based GPS tracking software and we’ll be releasing a live demo soon. Also, if you’re interested in using a GPS enabled mobile phone for tracking then please drop me a note or leave a comment below. I’m contemplating bringing the Windows Mobile and Symbian versions of BlueGPS out of retirement for a basic phone implementation.

I’ve spent a good deal of time explaining to friends and family what it is I do. They know that I’m involved with the web to some degree, but don’t really understand the whole SensorLogic concept. It’s probably my fault that I don’t convey the business concept very well, and I normally compare what we to do to a service like OnStar. We recently posted an audio interview that our CEO, Ray Hood, did for Fortune radio. Press the play button below to listen to the interview. Ray explains what we do better than I ever could.