Will Mobile Worker Applications Be Bigger Than Vehicle Tracking

Vehicle tracking systems are an invaluable management tool for many businesses and have revolutionised the way they work. Their effects are felt at all levels of an operation and can often be the stimulus for a positive change in culture.

Vehicle tracking systems are however inherantly limited by the very fact they are fixed to the vehicle and whilst they provide crucial business information they cannot be used to interact with customers or improve processes outside of the vehicle.

Mobile Worker Applications are different, they go with the driver, are not limited to the vehicle and we have all come in to contact with them at some point. Whether it’s the courier company asking for your signature or the customer survey in the high st they are everywhere and they are predicted grow exponentially over the coming years.

In a recent survey by TrackCompare industry experts predict market penetration of Mobile Worker Applications of 4% compared to the predicted penetration of vehicle tracking of only 2%. There have been many false starts with Mobile Worker Applications which have been held back for years whilst the devices are made more user friendly, reliable and robust and the data networks coverage and speed improved.

Whereas previously most Mobile Worker Applications were tailored specifically for the company they were going in to, now they are available off the shelf with minimum work required to integrate them in to the companies own back end system and to replicate the paper forms and processes the company uses in to an electronic format.

Mobile Worker Application developers have been working hard on getting the commercial proposition right and the software and hardware working together to offer business a real opportunity to get rid of their paperwork and streamline their business. TrackCompare launched its mobile worker comparison service in June 2010.