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Live location tracking with Node.js and Python

Product development teams around the world are creating applications powered by real-time location tracking. Now these teams have the power at their fingertips to control tracking on mobile devices with Node.js and Python code running in the cloud.

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Location history of app users as a timeline

Mobile phones have powerful sensors to log detailed information about your app users' movements with their permission. Replaying the location time-series as a polyline on the map makes the journey come to life.

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Evolution of location access on Android

As more apps started using location in the background, and sending this data to servers for use by applications outside the device, Android started setting some rules of the game to manage battery drain and user privacy. The Android platform has evolved significantly with Android 8 and onward.

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Live location dashboards for large field operations teams

Operations managers for large fleets require the proper tools to map their tracked assets, identify anomalies, and foster an efficient workforce.

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Build your own location-aware logistics app in an hour

Mobile apps are driving the digital transformation of logistics. Modern workforce and fleet automation solutions must have a location-aware mobile app for drivers as they are out and about performing their deliveries and service visits.

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Free 100k events per month in your developer account

Building live location apps is harder than it needs to be. HyperTrack is the easiest way to build live location apps for businesses. Today, we are extending our free tier to 100k events per month. Let your imagination run wild and build away.

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Spin up your own ride-sharing app in an hour

We were encouraged when the developer community went nuts with the open-source Uber-for-X sample app built with HyperTrack in 2017. Since then, we’ve only seen more and more demand from ridesharing, gig economy and Uber-for-X apps using HyperTrack for live location.

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A&B Courier builds asset management application with location tracking

A&B Courier, the leading courier and trucking company of Ontario, Canada, has built an in-house asset management application with HyperTrack's live location tracking APIs. A&B Courier is a 39-year young logistics company with significant delivery volume on the move on any given day.

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Add live location tracking to any app in minutes — and my HyperTrack story

This is a guest blog by Gavin Sherry (Co-founder and CEO of Autonomic, now a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company) who recently joined the HyperTrack Board of Directors. Prior to Autonomic, he was

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Digital transformation of enterprise fleets

HyperTrack is the live location API for developers to build software eating the world that moves. Live location is the dot that connects this physical world with software.

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redBus launches ridesharing with live location tracking

redBus is the world’s largest online bus ticket booking service trusted by over 20 million users. In June 2019, we launched a ride-sharing service rPool (bike-pool and car-pool) for our users to commute smartly where they can reduce traffic and also save money on their daily commutes.

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Build live location dashboards for operations managers in 3 steps

Forward-thinking fleet and workforce managers are building apps for their teams to manage work while on the go. HyperTrack makes these apps location-aware. In-app telematics provides powerful insights on the fleet's key performance indicators.

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Build live location sharing for customers in 3 steps

Businesses delivering products and services to customers within time-critical windows have started using apps for their mobile workforce to manage their work. Now, these apps need to become location-aware like those ridesharing apps. It’s as easy as 1 - 2 - 3.

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Open source sample app to track the movement history of your workforce

We built an app to track our movement throughout the day and discovered that you could benefit from it. Today, we're releasing it as an open-source sample app.

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Integrating with our APIs just got easier

Improved capabilities and better integration experiences are coming your way! This week, we rolled out the following updates to our APIs ...

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Build live location dashboards for asset tracking with ReactJS

You can now build your own live location tracking dashboard for asset tracking with ReactJS. To customize your HyperTrack dashboard experience–swap out the map layer, change the icon, add tool-tips, swap out the device list, and more–use this newly released React Views module.

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Build live location sharing in your app with these open-source samples

We open-sourced a simple app that starts tracking upon granting location permissions. User can share live location through a short URL, sent through their favorite messaging app, to track live location.

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How we built a serverless architecture with AWS

Our customers go serverless for live locations with HyperTrack. We go serverless for our platform with AWS. In this blog, we give you a peek under the hood and share our learnings.

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New Trips API, short URLs for shared views, and dashboard live support

More HyperTrack features are coming your way: Check out the Trips API, short URLs for shared views, and chat support from within the dashboard

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HyperTrack Culture

HyperTrack culture: make customers happy, the quality-speed flywheel, radically open communication, proactive and respectful

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V3 Updates: React Native quickstarts, improved webhooks, and embeddable views

We have a lot of exciting news for you! Many asked for a React Native quickstart, improved webhooks, and embeddable views. Today, we’re delivering!

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Painting the town green with HyperTrack

HyperTrack JS front ends to view real-time location streams on a map. These views always tell us stories we least expect. This post shares some of these stories.

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HyperTrack V3 makes live location tracking easy for app developers

Building apps with live location tracking is harder than it needs to be. HyperTrack V3 just fixed that. Disclaimer: Not a good fit for tracking consumers.

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Reducing on-demand delivery time with activity data

Performance of an on-demand delivery is measured as delivery time–time taken from placing the order to delivery to the customer. Reducing delivery time leads to happier customers, higher income for delivery riders, and better business for the on-demand delivery company.

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Heartbee–a family safety app built with HyperTrack

These hackathon winners built an app for remote families to track the the health and safety of their elderly parents in Chinatown San Francisco

HyperTrack is helping communities respond to COVID-19 worldwide. See what we’re doing →

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