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GPS System & Address Validation For Shipping

How can you be sure that the package you sent was delivered to the correct house or business? This is where GPS System & Address Validation comes in handy. With this system, the delivery person uses a cell phone like device to make a enter the package identification code from the drive of the place of delivery and the GPS system marks the location of the delivery, effectively validating that the package was delivered to the correct address.
By use of GPS service, the company can mark the precise location of the unit receiving the goods. These units can be very high precision. Some have a high enough precision that they can be used in land surveying. The unit can give the location of the delivery truck as the delivery is made. The unit can be used either in the truck or at the door of the home or business where the delivery is made. If it has a built in bar code scanner, the driver can quickly and accurately identify the package, the location and the time. All of this information can be sent back to the home office of the delivery company using cellular transmission systems.
This system is helpful in ending customer complaints of never receiving equipment that has been shipped. Show them the GPS stamp and it is up to them to find where your delivery has been stored in their place of business. If the delivery truck is in the wrong location, the system can alert him before the delivery is made so there is no backtracking and hoping to retrieve a delivery made to the wrong address.
Another use of this equipment is in the delivery of court papers to an individual. In addition to the manual address verification, the person serving the papers can have GPS address validation that the papers were served to the correct address.
The GPS system was first used experimentally by the US navy in 1960. Since that time several other satellites have been launched. These satellites have been used for airplanes and ships in navigation for years. In more recent times hand held units have become popular and today, many cell phones have included a GPS locator. These much smaller units have made it possible to allow GPS technology to be used for such things as address verification.
One thing that should be taken into consideration is that the US government has a built in error in the system that can cause it to be off as much as 100 meters (over 300 feet or the length of a football field). This error was included in order to prevent take over of the system by enemy forces and use in directing munitions sent by forces attacking the United States. This error must be taken into account in the address verification system. Thus it may not be possible to determine if a package was delivered to your home your next door neighbors, simply due to the fact of the built in error.
Overall the address verification GPS system is a good system. It can give directions to the route driver for the next delivery. However, the driver must still use clues such as street signs and address markings to ensure that the package is delivered to the correct location.
Overall the technology for this type of system is precise, but a built in error is a bug that will need to be worked out for the system to be as useful as possible.

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GPS systems are getting cheaper everyday. It's not hard to find where you need to go using address validation and spatial data.

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