Fleet Management Solutions powered by Javascript and Ajax - By: Steven Reiser

Many organizations have mobile staff that performs the business functions away from the office. And these services are sales, maintenance, delivery scenarios etc. These workers operate vehicles and are responsible for the expensive equipment and products and tracking these assets to make sure that they are being used correctly is not an easy task and to continuously monitor it next to impossible. The fleet management software helps in tracking. Some fleet management solutions use GIS which is a costly affair. Then the GPS (global positioning software) came into picture. Then GPS has its own disadvantages. The GPS Equipment was specific to one particular vendor's software and it cannot be re-used. Due to the above mentioned costs and complexity, new approaches gaining popularity are the ones such as outsourcing of the fleet management software using software as a service (SaaS).

Fleet and asset tracking solutions add value to the organization by reducing fuel charges, maintenance cost, discouraging misuse and optimizing field operations. Various API's (Application Programming Interface) are used for integrating maps and locations into fleet tracking applications. The primary API used is Ajax/JavaScript APIs. It is used for web browser development. Advantages of these APIs include working directly in a user’s browser without specialized plug-ins beyond the ubiquitous JavaScript. Many UI features (such as panning/zooming etc) are part of the APIs. UI development with these API building blocks is relatively easy, and entry skill level is not high. JavaScript will also work with any web server technologies making the implementation very flexible. For fleet and asset tracking, the JavaScript APIs provide vector overlay which is ideal for showing real-time and historical positions. We can take the example of Google maps which uses javaScript extensively. The technique of providing greater user-interactivity by performing asynchronous network requests with Javascript and XMLHttpRequest has recently become known as Ajax. Maps actually uses XmlHttpRequest sparingly, preferring a hidden IFrame with form submission because it preserves browser history. It also uses JSON for data transfer rather than XML, for performance reasons. These techniques both fall under the broad Ajax umbrella.

Fleet and asset tracking solutions provide significant value to organizations with mobile resources. By implementing a fleet solution that combines on premise software with Cloud mapping services, organizations can maximize benefits and minimize costs.

Here are some of the projects which Mindfire has completed

1. Fleet Management System
2. Fleet Management Projects India.

Mindfire Solutions is regarded as one of the top JavaScript AJAX Development providers in India and Ria Ajax application service providers. It has also gained adequate expertise in asp.net application development. Our software development team has years of experience in developing the above mentioned applications and projects in various industry domains.

Be it the dedication to serve, be it the exceptional transparent dealings or be it the personalized client centric focus, Mindfire has always shown the passion to create a long lasting business partnership with customers. Mindfire Solutions is a Microsoft Gold certified partner, an Apple developer connection premier member and has business partnerships with big names like IBM, Adobe and others.

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