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Guides & E-books

Strategic resources
for fleet operations.

In-depth guides, playbooks, and handbooks designed to help you plan, deploy, and scale vehicle tracking infrastructure with confidence.

6 guides
6 categories
Free to download

A curated strategic resource vault

Every guide is designed for depth — not surface-level overviews. These are the resources teams use to plan deployments, build business cases, evaluate vendors, and scale fleet tracking infrastructure with clarity and confidence.

Who it’s for

Fleet Managers

Operational playbooks, industry guides, and ROI frameworks.

IT Teams

Deployment planning, migration strategies, and infrastructure sizing.

Decision Makers

Buyer's guides, cost analysis, and business case templates.

Partners

Launch guides, enablement resources, and go-to-market tools.

Featured

FeaturedBuyer's Guide

The Self-Hosted GPS Tracking Buyer’s Guide

A practical decision framework for evaluating self-hosted GPS tracking platforms across ownership, data control, device compatibility, operations, integrations, scalability, security, and long-term fit.

PDF38 pagesGPS and telematics business owners, CTOs, technical decision-makers, fleet leaders, IT teams, system integrators, and procurement professionalsRead more
The Self-Hosted GPS Tracking Buyer’s Guide — cover
FeaturedDeployment Guide

Open VTS Deployment & Infrastructure Planning Guide

Plan the servers, storage, networking, device connectivity, security, resilience, monitoring, backup, and production rollout required for a reliable Open VTS deployment.

PDF32 pagesCTOs, technical directors, system administrators, DevOps teams, GPS and telematics engineers, system integrators, and IT infrastructure teamsRead more
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FeaturedMigration Playbook

The GPS Platform Migration Playbook

A practical roadmap for moving from SaaS or legacy GPS software to a self-hosted platform while protecting devices, data, integrations, users, and operational continuity.

PDF33 pagesGPS and telematics business owners, CTOs, technical teams, system integrators, fleet operators, IT teams, and migration project leadersRead more
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FeaturedBusiness Case

The Business Case for Self-Hosted GPS Tracking

A practical framework for evaluating total cost, control, scalability, operational independence, responsibilities, and long-term value in self-hosted GPS tracking.

PDF28 pagesGPS and telematics business owners, founders, CEOs, CFOs, CTOs, finance leaders, procurement teams, and infrastructure decision-makersRead more
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FeaturedArchitecture Guide

The Architecture of Modern GPS Tracking

Understand how GPS data moves from tracker packets and protocols through ingestion, processing, storage, events, realtime systems, automation, APIs, and fleet applications.

PDF27 pagesCTOs, software architects, GPS and telematics engineers, developers, technical founders, system integrators, product leaders, and infrastructure teamsRead more
The Architecture of Modern GPS Tracking — cover
FeaturedSecurity Handbook

Fleet Data Ownership & Security Handbook

A practical handbook for understanding fleet data custody, access control, infrastructure security, retention, backup, recovery, accountability, and shared responsibility.

PDF21 pagesCTOs, IT and security leaders, technical decision-makers, GPS and telematics business owners, system administrators, enterprise architects, procurement teams, and compliance teamsRead more
Fleet Data Ownership & Security Handbook — cover

All Guides

Audience

6 guides

The Self-Hosted GPS Tracking Buyer’s Guide — cover
Buyer's Guide

The Self-Hosted GPS Tracking Buyer’s Guide

A practical decision framework for evaluating self-hosted GPS tracking platforms across ownership, data control, device compatibility, operations, integrations, scalability, security, and long-term fit.

PDF38 pages~0.95 MB
Open VTS Deployment & Infrastructure Planning Guide — cover
Deployment Guide

Open VTS Deployment & Infrastructure Planning Guide

Plan the servers, storage, networking, device connectivity, security, resilience, monitoring, backup, and production rollout required for a reliable Open VTS deployment.

PDF32 pages~1.15 MB
The GPS Platform Migration Playbook — cover
Migration Playbook

The GPS Platform Migration Playbook

A practical roadmap for moving from SaaS or legacy GPS software to a self-hosted platform while protecting devices, data, integrations, users, and operational continuity.

PDF33 pages~0.95 MB
The Business Case for Self-Hosted GPS Tracking — cover
Business Case

The Business Case for Self-Hosted GPS Tracking

A practical framework for evaluating total cost, control, scalability, operational independence, responsibilities, and long-term value in self-hosted GPS tracking.

PDF28 pages~0.89 MB
The Architecture of Modern GPS Tracking — cover
Architecture Guide

The Architecture of Modern GPS Tracking

Understand how GPS data moves from tracker packets and protocols through ingestion, processing, storage, events, realtime systems, automation, APIs, and fleet applications.

PDF27 pages~1.52 MB
Fleet Data Ownership & Security Handbook — cover
Security Handbook

Fleet Data Ownership & Security Handbook

A practical handbook for understanding fleet data custody, access control, infrastructure security, retention, backup, recovery, accountability, and shared responsibility.

PDF21 pages~1.35 MB

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