In the first four months of this year, gplink has been ordered by dealers from coast-to-coast (welcome Hawthorne Machinery, Milton Cat, Ransome Cat, Alban Cat, Pantropic Power & Blanchard Machinery) and internationally (Finning UK & Finning Chile, Pon Power in the Netherlands, Sotreq in Brazil, CML in Taiwan, TSL in Singapore & Borusan in Turkey). All of these dealers have completed orders and will soon reap the benefits of the insights & selling tools gplink is able to provide to dealers. We look forward to working with you all!
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General news and updates from gplink headquarters
Gplink is Going Global
Keeping Your Fleet at Your Fingertips
Simplify the management of your entire fleet by placing critical details at your fingertips. With our Fleet View feature you can view all your vessels, their location (worldwide) and alert status. This feature also shows a popup message of speed, heading, latitude & longitude for each vessel.
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Little Footprint, Big Results
gplink’s tracking and monitoring systems for Cat® powered vessels play a significant role in helping fleets to optimize energy consumption, lower operational costs and meet sustainability objectives for reduced carbon emissions.
gplink provides a blend of hardware, software, content and expertise to enable efficient resource management and support both voluntary and mandatory carbon reporting. In addition, the telematics technology of the gplink system measures fuel consumption and determines carbon emissions from any Cat powered vessel.
Good Things Come in Small Packages
We get asked all the time how big the gplink box is. The gplink box is a tiny workhorse, with a footprint of less than 9” x 4” x 3” and one box located near each engine.
All gplink units need to be hooked to a continuous power source by a certified gplink installer, and are easily identifiable by the black, yellow & white gplink emblem on the box.
Retrieving Accident Info with Collision & Incident Reports
gplink is proud to announce the development of collision & incident reporting. While still in its infancy, it will work like this:
Your gplink unit will take a snapshot numerous times each minute of significant shipboard data. In the event of a collision, the box will instantly upload a detailed report of engine codes (such as gear position, speed, rpms and other information) which will assist in determining the root cause of the incident.
Vessel Security Integration with GPLink
Did you know that there’s an almost unlimited potential for security features which can be hooked into your gplink system?
The gplink system is capable of interfacing with up to 4 total onboard systems (one of these must be the RF receiver).
This means you can use the bilge and smoke alarms that come as part of the standard kit and still interface with your existing security system. If you interface with your shipboard security system you will then receive alerts anytime there is a security breach. If on-board, you can consult your control panel to identify the specific troubled area. If you are not on-board you will know there is an issue and need to send someone to look into it.
GPLink Helps Engine Dealers Stay Connected
Ron Lisoski, Product Support Rep with Foley Cat®, has recently had several commercial customers install gplink aboard fleets of vessels. By using gplink, fleet managers can select parameters to be monitored, which can also be accessed by their Cat® dealer, if they choose.
In this example, the client wanted Foley Cat to know how their engines were performing. Lisoski has been able to monitor them and request changes to reporting and vessel usage which has saved his clients tens of thousands of dollars per vessel, per year. Needless to say, the client has been very happy with the results.
gplink is always happy to make sure Cat® dealers have access to what their customers approve. This helps to take the dealer/customer relationship to a whole new level.
GPLink Has You Covered
gplink is proud to partner with the Iridium Network to provide you with the most reliable coverage available. With a network of 66 active satellites, Iridium is capable of providing coverage from the North Pole to South Pole and all points in between. We’re aware very few of our vessel owners need the arctic coverage, but most do spend time offshore well beyond GSM range.
gplink customers deserve the very best, and this partnership allows gplink customers to have the freedom to venture anywhere they choose knowing that we will have their vessel monitored.
We also understand privacy is a concern to our customers. We’re comfortable with the Iridium satellite network because it has such exceptional security features which are trusted enough to be utilized by the Department of Defense.
Boating Season is Heating Up
The 2013 Fishing Tournament and Boat Show Season is upon us. The fun was kicked off in January with the Costa Rica Los Sueños Signature Billfish Series. This past week brought the Miami Boat Show followed not long after by spring and summer fun-filled events like the Bahamas Billfish Championship, the Custom Shootout, the Big Rock, Pirate’s Cove, Bermuda Big Game Classic, and many other great tournaments. This summer is bound to be a blast.
We will be at many of these events and we hope to see you there. We will also be at your service as you participate in the hunt for that big catch. You can count on gplink to be ready should a problem arise and you need us.
GPLink Can Add to Your Boat’s Resale Value
So you are ready to sell your vessel and questioning the value of your gplink, eh? Even if gplink never had the chance to save your vessel from sinking, alert during a fire or help track your way back to the hookup of that prize-winning billfish, you are about to see gplink earn its stripes.
How? Your account maintains engine history for up to seven years when you have gplink aboard. All the engine data that you receive in your monthly statements makes a fantastic “you should up my trade-in value” argument at resale time, or “here’s how great of a vessel she is” if you are selling yourself.