Net-Centric Business Strategies are Dependent on GPS

In an article called Net-Centric Field Force Automation, the author Kevin Benedict discusses the concept of net-centric business strategies. This concept involves closely tracking mobile resource (employees), mobile assets and stationary asset locations and using this information to better manage operations. Let me explain each:

• Mobile resources - most often relate to employees, contractors and other team members that are part of a project or operation
• Mobile assets - vehicles, trailers, mobile inventories, cargo, heavy equipment, tools, and other assets that are moving.
• Stationary assets - buildings, properties, roads, bridges, fences, utilities, infrastructure, etc.

Think about a large contruction project and all the moving parts to a project. Net-centric strategies would incorporate tracking, managing and viewing the ongoing operations by seeing all the moving parts via GPS tracking and a GIS (geospatical information system) solution that is integrated with project management systems.

Managers should be able to look at their computer screen and see the location of all of their mobile resources and mobile assets - equipment, vehicles and employees. This information allows management from hundreds or thousands of miles away to monitor a job site location and provide assistance.

Of course for this net-centric strategy to work, all of these moving parts need to have GPS tracking equipment attached to them and identification information on each of these moving assets and resources.

To learn about GPS system integration with live video feeds read here.

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