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Live Tracking & Mapping

Real-time location tracking and mapping dashboards for assets that don't stay still.

What this solves

Tracking software is easy to build badly: a map with a pin that updates every few minutes, good enough for a demo, useless for an operator who needs to know where something is right now. Live tracking is a different engineering problem — position data streamed continuously, processed with minimal delay, and rendered on a map that updates as the asset moves. We build that layer for fleets, delivery operations, and any connected device where location matters in the moment, not in a report generated the next morning.

The hard part usually isn't the map — mapping libraries are a solved problem. It's everything underneath it: handling devices that drop connection mid-route without losing their last known position, deciding how to reconcile a burst of delayed position updates when a device reconnects, and keeping a dashboard usable when it's showing hundreds of assets instead of five. That's the layer most tracking projects underestimate, and the one we build for first.

What we build

Real-time position streaming

Location data pushed from devices into a live map view over WebSockets, updating continuously instead of on a polling interval.

Geofencing & breach alerts

Configurable boundaries with real-time breach detection, so a restricted zone or delivery radius is enforced by the system, not manual checking.

Multi-asset fleet dashboards

One operational view across every tracked asset — position, status, and history — built for operators managing more assets than they can watch individually.

Historical playback & route history

Stored position history that can be replayed, useful for audits, disputes, or understanding how a route actually ran.

Custom map integrations

Mapping built on the provider that fits the use case — from standard web maps to specialized geospatial platforms.

Connection-loss handling

Graceful handling of devices that drop connection mid-route — holding and clearly flagging last-known position rather than silently failing or showing stale data as current.

Built on infrastructure made for real-time data

WebSockets

Persistent connections that push live position updates into the dashboard with minimal latency.

MQTT

Lightweight messaging for devices reporting position over constrained or intermittent connections.

AWS Lambda

Event-driven processing for position ingestion and geofence evaluation that scales with fleet size.

DynamoDB

Storage built for high-throughput time-series position data from many devices at once.

SNS

Fan-out alerting for geofence breaches and status changes to the right channel immediately.

Built for teams already in motion

Fleet & logistics operators

Tracking vehicles or deliveries across a territory and need live visibility, not end-of-day reports.

Field service companies

Managing technicians or equipment across sites and need to know location and status in real time.

Asset-heavy operations

Any business where a physical asset moves and its location matters to a decision being made right now.

This is the same real-time infrastructure we use for drone telemetry, applied to any asset that moves — vehicles, equipment, personnel. If you're already tracking something with GPS but the data isn't reaching anyone in time to act on it, that's usually the actual gap, and it's the one we close.

Most of the projects that come to us aren't asking 'can you add GPS tracking' — they already have GPS hardware in the field and a spreadsheet or a barely-used app on top of it. The actual request is closer to 'we have the data, why can't we see it live,' and that's a pipeline and dashboard problem, not a hardware problem, which is usually good news for the timeline.

Common questions

What's the difference between live tracking and standard GPS tracking?
Standard GPS tracking often means periodic location logging reviewed after the fact. Live tracking means continuous position streaming into a dashboard that updates in real time, so someone can act on it while it matters.
Can you integrate with our existing GPS hardware/devices?
Yes — most projects integrate with hardware that's already deployed rather than requiring new devices.
How many assets can a fleet dashboard handle?
The architecture is built to scale with fleet size — the infrastructure (Lambda, DynamoDB, SNS) is the same whether you're tracking 10 assets or 1,000.
Do you build the mapping interface too, or just the data pipeline?
Both — the tracking pipeline and the dashboard/map interface that makes the data usable.
What happens when a tracked asset loses connection?
The system holds and clearly flags the last known position and timestamp rather than silently freezing or showing stale data as if it were current — an operator should always know whether what they're seeing is live or last-known.
Can historical route data be exported or reviewed later?
Yes — position history is stored, not just streamed, so it can be replayed, exported, or reviewed for audits, disputes, or operational analysis after the fact.

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