Description of service
Every entrepreneur is interested in the growth and development of their business. Mobile employees is an MTS service that allows you to determine the location of employees, monitor the status of task completion, divide personnel into teams, distribute responsibilities and solve other problems. This is a simple tool with which you can optimize the work of your team and thereby achieve greater earnings.
Geopositioning
As already mentioned, we have a unique opportunity to determine the location of field employees using three parameters: GPS/GLONASS chip, Wi-Fi module and base stations.
Competitors either do not have this detection capability or do not have such a service. If an employee is in a building where satellites are not “finishing off”, then the search for him is carried out through base stations. We have learned to measure the signal level and determine how far a person is from a particular base station. Thanks to this, we have increased the accuracy of determination by BS from 2 km to hundreds of meters, and in the city within 100 m. In addition, the location of an employee in a building is also determined via Wi-Fi networks. It's no secret that Google collects data from all smartphones based on Wi-Fi hotspots and their location. The accuracy of Wi-Fi location is 10-20 meters. By the way, if a smartphone sees 3-5 satellites, then the accuracy of detection is 3-5 meters.
There are clients who are interested in whether it is possible to find out not only in which building an employee is located, but also on which floor. To be honest, there is no such option yet. Technically, there are several options for solving this problem. The first option is quite complicated: the smartphone has a device that measures the magnetic field. Using this sensor, the number of floors can be determined. The second option: creating artificial markers for indoor orientation, for example, Bluetooth markers. The smartphone, “passing” along the markers, determines its location. As soon as there is not just interest, but an order, we will be able to implement this solution.
Some time ago, we proposed implementing the technology to railway workers. They wanted to see online how trains moved in a huge depot. Equipping cars with GPS modules would be too expensive and energy-consuming. Therefore, we proposed as a solution to attach a passive tag to the car and install a “reader” on the switches. The car rolls past the marks, and we understand where it is. The project has not yet been implemented.
I’ll tell you about another case when we “finished” an application for a client. Thus, one of the companies that owns a network of gas stations needed to monitor the work of service engineers checking the operation of the gas station. Engineers visited all gas stations and checked whether the prices were set correctly, whether all the lights were on, whether the goods were laid out correctly, etc. The client demanded to record not just the passage of engineers along the highway past the gas station, but also the fact that the employee stopped at the gas station, entered it and stayed there for some time. The difficulty was that the service engineers were equipped with Apple tablets. And the iPad has very strict requirements for writing software, plus they do not provide the ability to manage energy consumption. This was a huge problem, because if the engineer did not use the tablet for some time, then our application would unload and might not “capture” the fact of visiting the site. As a result, we have significantly improved the iOS application in terms of energy consumption and GPS/GLONASS control. The application now consumes half as much battery power and allows you to strike a balance between accuracy and power consumption. It took about two months to finalize. In addition, we developed a unique report for this client, which reflected not only the fact of visiting the gas station, but also the time spent at the site. Based on this, the company is now evaluating the work of service engineers.
Service variations
The tool for monitoring employees using MTS has three versions. Let's look at their features:
- Employees. As part of the option, you can use the MTS Tracker program to accurately and quickly determine the location of workers. Thanks to the tool, the manager sees the location of his people with an accuracy of 500 m in the city, 500-800 m on the outskirts and 1000-2000 m outside the populated area.
- Transport. After logging into the personal account of the MTS Mobile Employee option, you can control the company’s vehicle fleet. Using the service, it is possible to eliminate the inappropriate use of transport, determine its location, and control fuel consumption. Data is transmitted via Wialon or EGTS protocols.
- Coordinator. It is used to plan employee departures, control traveling workers, increase efficiency and quality of services, collect data from the “fields,” and automate the distribution of tasks. The service allows you not only to control movement on the map, but also to plan / keep control over the execution of tasks, coordinate actions and receive reports.
Summing up
The Radar service is quite popular. This is the best option for those who want to know where relatives or friends are at one time or another, using a simple mobile version. The function is easy to use. After sending the corresponding request via phone, the applicant will be able to see the person’s location on a detailed map of the city.
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Price
After logging into your MTS Mobile Employees personal account, you can control all parameters, including cost. The following features apply here:
- Employees - from 4.3 rubles per employee. Monthly fee - 130 rubles. Costs for using the option are included in the costs for corporate services.
- The cost of the Transport option depends on the number of cars used and the time of use. If the number of cars is from 1 to 5, the cost will be 470 rubles, 423 rubles, 376 rubles and 306 rubles for 1, 6, 12 and 24 months, respectively. As the quantity increases, the payment decreases. For example, if you have from 6 to 10 vehicles, the payment amount is 440 rubles, 396 rubles, 352 rubles and 256 rubles for 1, 6, 12 and 24 months, respectively.
- The cost of the Coordinator service within the MTS Mobile Employees option is from 5.3 rubles per employee.
Can employees cheat the system?
Theoretically, yes.
You can edit the report photo by changing its location and time, and upload it to the application as a file. But it will already be clear that the photo is not from a camera, but from a file. In principle, we can connect an additional module and detect facts of photo editing. But so far none of the clients have expressed a desire to implement such a module. It is theoretically also possible to fake an employee’s geoposition, but it is expensive. A special system for replacing coordinates is needed. Recently, social networks have been discussing how a similar system allegedly works near the Kremlin. The drivers noticed that when approaching the Kremlin, they suddenly, according to the navigator, found themselves in Vnukovo. Our service has protection against incorrect coordinates. If suddenly a person, according to GPS coordinates, moves too great a distance at some prohibitive speed, then these coordinates will be eliminated as incorrect.
Login to your personal account
To use the service, you must go to the main page and log in to the MTS Mobile Employees account. To authorize, you must enter your login and password. If you don’t have an account, you should register - click on the appropriate button and go through a few steps. In particular, you need to enter company data, region of work, login information and other data.
Service capabilities
To find out a person's location, you don't have to call him. It is enough to connect the MTS Search service, which includes 5;
The services allow you to obtain information about the location of friends, colleagues, children, and also your car. When you activate “My City,” you will receive information about the infrastructure of the locality.
Application
To use the service, the following applications may be required:
- Mobile employees - allows you to control the situation regardless of location. Available for Android smartphones with version 4.4 and higher, as well as iOS from 11.0.
- MTS Coordinator. The program is provided for Android from 4.4 and higher, as well as iOS from 9.0. Allows you to plan field tasks and monitor their execution.
- MTS Tracker. The application is installed on employee phones for Android OS with version 4.0 or higher. With it, you can monitor your location, exchange messages and record your movements.
Users also have access to the MTS Transport desktop program, which allows them to control the movement of cars online, receive reports, see fuel consumption and receive other information.
Mobile programs can be downloaded from the Play Market or Apple Store, depending on which devices they are needed for. Links to programs are also available on the official website mpoisk.ru.
Other options for locating subscribers
Let's tell you a little more about two more services provided by the mobile operator MTS to ensure the safety of children and control over children or other loved ones. In terms of functionality, they resemble “Locator”.
Option “Child under supervision”
The offer allows:
- find out where the subscriber is;
- see the operating status of the mobile gadget at the moment;
- request balance;
- access the list of installed programs.
For parents, the first function is, of course, most relevant, because it is this that allows you to find out where the baby is walking. You can use the service more comfortably by installing the “Children’s Smartphone” application on your child’s phone. Once activated it works like this:
- generates phone statistics;
- creates a list of downloaded programs;
- reports battery charge level;
- uses satellite communications to track coordinates.
The service is activated using a simple algorithm:
- Send an SMS with the text “MOM” or “DAD” to the short number 7788. You will receive a key used to identify the other parent;
- Send a message like this to 7788: “CHILD NAME NUMBER” (indicate the name and telephone number of the object of observation).
Keep in mind that your son or daughter must confirm the surveillance with a response message. If this is not done, the efforts will be in vain. However, it is not difficult for parents to get into their child's device, unless, of course, it is locked with a password.
You can find out where the child is like this:
- send an SMS to 7788 with the words “WHERE IS THE CHILD_NAME”, after which you will receive a message with coordinates;
- look at the website for this option “Child under supervision”;
- check through the “Where are the Children” application, which is installed on tablets and smartphones.
To stop using the service, send the word “DELETE” to 7788 and you will receive an SMS notification about the deactivation.
Reviews
With the growing popularity of the service, business representatives often leave reviews about the MTS Mobile Employees tool. Clients note the convenience of the service, affordable cost, accuracy of the information provided and similar reports. Among the shortcomings, some difficulties stand out in understanding the principles of operation of the system. In addition, many are confused by the cost of services, but it is usually lower than that of competitors.
MTS mobile employees are a useful option that allows business representatives to keep employees under control and optimize costs.
The main thing is to immediately decide which service suits you best and submit a request to connect it. You also need to install a special application. If our article helped you, please like it!
How does MTS Locator work?
A service of this type is based on the use of special settings that must first be installed on the mobile device at your disposal. If you make the appropriate settings and activate the option, you can easily track the location of the person you are looking for.
A special feature of the function is that you do not need to connect a GPRS connection to perform a search. The location area is determined strictly when using a regular Internet map. It can be obtained by sending the appropriate command. As a response, the system will send the necessary coordinates of the desired device on a map of a certain area.
Our plans for the future
In the future, we plan to introduce a full-fledged API.
More extensive messaging, machine analysis, and forecasting will appear. We will also create for clients a designer of reports and tasks to suit any tastes and production requirements. Currently, report templates are created based on the focus query. We want to make our platform as flexible as possible. Also in the future, we will introduce artificial intelligence, which will recommend to the dispatcher certain employees to complete each task. For example, it is necessary to repair a fiber optic line in the area of Domodedovo Airport. The dispatcher needs to quickly find an employee who has the competence and can arrive there as soon as possible. The system will make recommendations on which employees have the minimum arrival time, required experience and zips.
Is everything under cover?
Obviously, someone in your organization may have a negative attitude towards the introduction of this type of service. They say that total control is established over employees. But from my experience I can say that the staff positively perceives the implementation of MTS Coordinator. Because in addition to the “stick” in the form of determining the exact geoposition of each employee, there is also a “carrot” among the functionality. Now the field employee does not need to come to the office to pick up orders, write a report by hand or enter numbers into Excel - the application does this for you. That is, we give people a tool that makes their work more efficient and convenient, and allows them to complete more requests. Conventionally, in one day it is possible to fulfill not one request, but five.
