Vodafone Ghana Limited on Thursday launched a tracking service designed to track and manage fleets of vehicles and general mobile assets for companies.
The device is meant to address challenges business entities including driver idling, over speeding, hijacking, fuel and car theft, high operational cost and safety of staff and property.
Other features includes fuel sensors for monitoring fuel consumption, digital cameras for taking pictures around the vehicle, audio voice recognition for communication with the driver, magnetic locks for extra security and coded log-in features for knowing the identity of the driver.
It also seeks to assist business customers with five or more vehicles within the corporate and government institutions to increase productivity.
Mr Derek Appiah, Director of Business Solutions at Vodafone, said it would increase efficiency whilst reducing operational costs and ensuring the safety of their staff and property.
The tracking service has a 'GPS' tracking device with a data 'SIM' installed in the vehicle and tracking software installed on a computer and accessed by the customer through the internet or on a mobile phone.
"We are confident that a significant amount of our customers' lives and businesses will be improved with this product," he said.
Mr William Agyei, Head of Product and Proposition at Vodafone, said the introduction of the service would eliminate challenges companies face in respect of management of their fleet of vehicles and mobile assets.
"Ultimately this product will improve productivity, reduce accidents, improve safety of passengers and reduce cost significantly," he said.
Mr Agyei said customers could monitor a number of vehicles located in any part of the country and beyond simultaneously while the device sends event reports to the customer via SMS, email and pop up signals.