Provides Complete Resource Management
for Fleet and Heavy Equipment
BRADENTON, FLA. - September 25, 2006 - GE Security,
Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the General
Electric Company (NYSE: GE) today announced the
release of its new NavLogix mobile resource
management (MRM) solution. NavLogix combines the
flexibility of the Internet with GPS and cellular
technologies to provide complete resource management
for service, utility, cable, and heating/air
conditioning fleets with anywhere from 1-75,000
vehicles. Additional business fleets, ranging from
armored vehicles to heavy equipment, also improve
business processes by using GE's NavLogix solution.
With NavLogix, fleet managers access a variety of
operating information, including finding a vehicle's
exact location and routing, identifying start and
stop times to indicate when drivers arrived and
departed appointments, determining mileage, and
receiving e-mail alerts for speeding, excessive
idling, unauthorized moving and more. Managers can
view custom maps to give drivers directions and
alternate routes. NavLogix also helps managers to
navigate tight delivery schedules. With NavLogix,
vehicles can be restrained within specific
boundaries using geo-fence capability. By generating
a variety of multiple reports, fleet managers
improve overall routing activities and boost fleet
and individual driver efficiency.
"NavLogix combines today's newest technologies to
provide a tool for complete mobile resource
management. Our customers gain improved customer
service, asset utilization, productivity, and
security by locating, dispatching, re-routing, and
providing directions to their fleets quickly and
easily," said Dave Nark, a GE Security Growth
Initiatives Leader. "Because companies using
NavLogix use the Web to view every fleet vehicle in
real time, they provide accurate estimated
times-of-arrival to their customers who inquire
about service appointments."
As a hosted web application, NavLogix provides
customers with convenience, ease of use, and secure
access via the Internet without any IT investment.
Virtual geo-fences can define landmarks such as
facilities, customer appointment locations, parking
lots or malls. Alerts provide e-mail notification of
notable events, such as speeding and entering or
exiting a geo-fenced area. Customers can receive
24-hour reports of vehicle activity and the routes
driven. GE Security provides all hardware,
associated installation, database resources and 24/7
service for NavLogix. The system is also user ID and
password protected.
"We know that fleet managers are increasingly
concerned with managing expenses," said Nark. "Fuel
and maintenance, employee overtime, and low employee
productivity can break an operating budget. The
NavLogix solution helps our customers manage these
expenses more efficiently. In a fleet of
approximately 150 vehicles, savings can easily reach
several thousand dollars per month."
Additional details can be found at
www.GESecurity.com/know. NavLogix orders will begin
shipping to customers in November 2006.
