NEW YORK,
TeleNav Track provides the inspectors with customized wireless forms for easy data entry on their BlackBerry handsets, and the GPS technology helps management identify where SCOUT inspectors have been. This information is then wirelessly captured by AT&T's nationwide(1) wireless data network. Then it is sent to the 3-1-1 Customer Service Center, which sends the information to the appropriate agency for corrective action, including the city's Department of Sanitation, Department of Transportation, Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Buildings and the Department of Parks and Recreation.
"This new team, equipped with GPS technology, will bring an extra set of
eyes to our city streets," said
The SCOUT inspectors will observe and report conditions, including: illegal dumping, street potholes, graffiti on buildings, missing traffic signs, dangling or down traffic signs, open fire hydrants, down newspaper boxes, property damage in parks and damage to bus shelters and sidewalk shed ads.
The SCOUT team includes 15 inspectors, most of whom will drive three-wheeled scooters and travel every city street once a month.
"Thousands of organizations are now using TeleNav Track to leverage mobile
GPS technology and create more efficient processes," said HP Jin, co-founder,
president and CEO of TeleNav. "We are proud that, using AT&T's advanced
wireless data network, we can provide
TeleNav Track uses GPS and wireless technologies to provide business-management solutions via mobile devices. It includes a variety of mobile features, including GPS tracking/reporting and navigation, wireless job dispatching, wireless forms and wireless barcode scanning.
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AT&T has been working with
The flexibility of mobile data applications, such as TeleNav Track, and the broad choice of devices and network coverage available through AT&T have led to a significant increase in the adoption of wireless data across all industry segments. AT&T is the world's leading provider of BlackBerry services and operates the largest national wireless data network in the U.S., with availability in more than 13,000 cities and towns and along some 40,000 miles of major highways.
(1) Not available in all areas
About TeleNav Inc.
TeleNav, Inc., a privately-held company headquartered in
TeleNav's solutions include GPS navigation, Mobile Resource Management (MRM), asset GPS tracking (AVL), social networking and local search. The company's flagship product, TeleNav GPS Navigator(TM), is comparable to in-car systems found in luxury vehicles, offering a superior experience with functionality, such as automatically-updated maps and business locations, full color 3D moving maps, traffic alerts and one-click rerouting, location-sharing, business reviews, speech recognition, Wi-Fi hotspot finder, lowest-price fuel finder and more. TeleNav's enterprise application, TeleNav Track, incorporates GPS-enabled tracking, time sheets, wireless forms and navigation. TeleNav Track is a widely adopted service with over 8,000 customer organizations using it today.
TeleNav offers its services internationally through leading wireless carriers including AT&T. For more information on TeleNav, please visit http://www.telenav.com.
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