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Real-time gps tracking. Zero hardware. One phone.
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Real-time gps tracking. Zero hardware. One phone.
2 followers
Turn everyday phones into fleet gps trackers.
View your devices on a map with real-time locations and alerts. Live map locations, trips, and reports all in one dashboard.
Mileage and expenses. Speed alerts. Geo-Zones. Share live map. Low battery alerts. Offline capable.
Hardware GPS trackers vs phones—issues I’ve seen helping people choose
1. SIM & Connectivity Lock-In
Global SIMs required, but the providers are impossible to contact.
After 2 years, prices jump — you're trapped.
2G networks being switched off globally, bricking older devices.
3G data costs are disproportionately expensive in many regions relative to wages.
2. SMS-Based Tracking Is Broken
SMS is unreliable and insecure — other people can see your device.
Location is cell-tower-based, so you get an area, not your vehicle's actual position.
Device reconfiguration via SMS frequently fails, requiring physical access.
APN settings vary by telecom provider and need tech support to change.
3. Dangerous Engine Cut-Off
Off-the-shelf devices offer remote engine cut-off via SMS at highway speeds — that's reckless.
Cutting into electrical wiring can void fleet insurance and cause fires unless done by a certified mechanic.
4. You Don't Own Your Own Account
Resellers register devices under their admin account. When they close shop, you lose access to your own fleet.
10 devices often means 10 separate accounts and 10 separate maps.
5. Hardware That Doesn't Fit Real Life
Devices with weak Wi-Fi/GPS chips that "must not be placed near metal" — useless for covert placement under a vehicle.
OBD dongles are trivially removed by staff or customers.
Many installs require repositioning under the dash with splitter cables — mechanic labour and cost.
6. No Single Pane of Glass
Fragmented views: multiple accounts, multiple maps, no unified fleet picture.
7. Labour Gap & Update Nightmare
Fleet-wide policy isn’t a spreadsheet row — it’s physical labour: firmware, APN, or box settings on dozens of hardwired units means paying someone to crawl under every dash, repeatedly.
Same class of pain as only being able to change fleet-wide behaviour after a yard day.
8. Calibration Drift & Cheap Hardware Truth
Budget boxes: heading / motion sensors drift after months of vibration; you think you have truth, you have slowly wrong truth.
Phones aren’t perfect either, but the failure mode here is cheap silicon with no field recalibration without a visit.
9. Cloud vs Landfill
Legacy fleets rarely get seamless fleet-wide OTA for brain-in-the-box; units age into unsupported SKUs while phones get app updates from the store and policy updates from the cloud.
Their pattern is often capex + crawl + landfill; phone-based stacks are enrol + update + redeploy without a bay lift per VIN.
10. Vehicles Still Need to Be Turned or Moved Regularly
Hardwired or poorly designed trackers can flatten batteries if vehicles sit; policy becomes “start every vehicle on a schedule” — another hidden ops tax.
Track My Geo Architecture
Track My Geo is built as a Next.js web platform with a Node.js runtime and a custom WebSocket server for realtime updates. It uses PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB for relational and time-series data, Azure IoT Hub and Azure Functions for telemetry ingestion, NextAuth with Microsoft Entra External ID / Azure AD B2C for authentication, and Stripe for subscription billing.
Tech stack
Web app: Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
Server/runtime: Node.js, custom WebSocket server
Authentication: NextAuth, Microsoft Entra External ID / Azure AD B2C
Data: PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB
Device / telemetry: Azure IoT Hub, MQTT, Azure Functions
Maps / geospatial: MapLibre GL, TileServer GL
Payments: Stripe
Infra / cloud: Azure App Service, Azure Bicep
State / data fetching: TanStack Query
Testing: Vitest, React Testing Library
Observability / communications: Azure Application Insights, Log Analytics, Azure Communication Services
My excuse was, I needed to wait a month to see if the subscription renewed correctly. Then I needed to wait another month to see if it correctly expired, stopped billing and paused the service correctly.
Thats my excuse, Im sticking to it. It worked.
Geo zone speed events being delivered hours after the event is like being punched in the face, in hospital.
Switch logged in user, is a pain in the auth. Just log auth.
I cant give it away. lol