Inatech wins Nominee Award

Following Inatech’s entry to the 9th EMEA OPN Innovation Awards in November 2008, the IT services provider has been recognised as a successful Nominee.

The award is for entering a “qualified submission”, and is given for Inatech’s Location Based Mobile Tracking Solution. On 13th November 2008 Oracle announced the winners of its 9th OPN Innovation Awards. Designed to encourage, reward and recognize innovation among Oracle's partners in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), the award's First Place went to First Ondemand (UK) for Authentisec™, its secure identity and authorisation engine, with Sunrise Telecom (Italy) taking Second Place, and Argela (Turkey) receiving Third.

Oracle was keen to recognise successful applicants who were not awarded but had developed innovative and useful products that enhance customer offerings.

The product provides users with the ability to find the geographical location of a mobile device and provide services based on this information. It can used in a number of situations, such as on race courses, and by logistics, distribution and retail firms to track mobile objects. The Location Based Mobile Tracking Solution LBS is positioning, which is leveraged on the Global Positioning System (GPS). Positioning allows a mobile device to identify its location with varying degrees of precision and accuracy.

The solution uses Oracle 10g Application Server, JSP & Oracle Web Services, Thin Client 3-Tier Architecture, Oracle 10g Spatial database, Google Map APIs integration using JSP, Oracle Application Express (APEX), Oracle Wireless Messaging Services for alerts, and Syslog-ng on Linux to receive TCP messages form the GPS device.

Customers now leverage various Oracle technologies to track mobile objects. Inatech’s LBS can provide:

• Accurate and dynamic routing information
• Enhanced and personalized customer service
• Maximizes efficiency of marketing activities
• On demand information for users
• Real-time information delivery by the application

The technology is available worldwide for any business that requires a technology solution to track mobility using GPS devices. Inatech has key experience implementing these systems with the SCM, Manufacturing, Logistics, Distribution, Retail Entertainment industries.

Arun Kumar, Vice President – Information Services at Inatech, who led the project said: “This was our first requirement for a Location Based Service. From the outset, it was very different from what we normally do, but being an Oracle centric solution provider, we just combined Oracle technologies and developed new skills around GPS to frame a solution. We had invested in resources and infrastructure to meet the demands of the customer.

“We spent approximately £20,000 on development, however since it’s first installation in the UK, we have leveraged this solution as a part of several other projects – thereby reducing project implementation time and saving costs for many of our customers in the SCM, Manufacturing and Logistics industries.”

The LBS was the result of a small start-up business in the UK requiring a horse tracking system to track horses used for racing which are insured for high amounts. They wanted to track the movement of horses inside a particular boundary and whenever it crossed the boundary an alert message would be sent as SMS or Mail alert. Inatech’s solution allowed horse/ranch owner to know the location of their horses and keep tabs on their movements.

A web interface was also provided to add or modify the horse details, boundary co-ordinates, alert mobile numbers, control GPRS commands sent via SMS and postcodes.

The product is the only of its kind currently on the market, and is marked out by its innovative approach. It combines distinctive Oracle technologies with GPS devices in a unique way to deliver high-quality results.