- TeleNav, Inc. today announced that Brown Electric Company, Inc., a
supplier of industrial, electrical and instrumentation contracting
solutions, has improved employee accountability and reduced operating
expenses with the implementation of TeleNav Track™, a market leading
GPS-enabled Mobile Resource Management (MRM) service.
Brown Electric has been in business for more than 30 years and has earned a
reputation of providing quality services to its customers in the
Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. High specialty labor costs and
rising material prices have increased the need for real-time project
management data in the commercial electrical contracting industry. With an
amplified focus on effectively managing its mobile workforce, Brown
Electric began researching mobile GPS solutions. It was important to find a
system that could be incorporated within its existing wireless devices, and
the company chose TeleNav Track based on its ease of implementation.
With TeleNav Track, mobile employees at Brown Electric are able to utilize
turn-by-turn voice activated driving directions from their mobile phones,
saving time when navigating to clients' sites. The system's 'favorite
location' feature allows users to store and recall commonly used addresses
at a moment's notice. In addition, GPS tracking gives management a clear
view of operational productivity and current workforce locations. With that
knowledge, Brown Electric can easily allocate mobile assets and employee
services to appropriate locations. This real-time snapshot of its mobile
resources immediately improved customer satisfaction, lowered operating
expenses and increased employee accountability.
"The easily accessible navigation options of TeleNav Track have become
invaluable assets for our employees. The turn-by-turn directions are easy
to follow and save employees a considerable amount of time when trying to
get to a location," said Luke Wade, manager at Brown Electric. "While
workers are saving time and increasing productivity, the company has saved
on costs and is able to provide even better customer service. We can now
determine the closest craftsman or safety professional to an emergency
location and dispatch accordingly, something we weren't able to do before
implementing TeleNav Track."
"Brown Electric and other companies that rely heavily on managing mobile
workforces are discovering that technological advancements for mobile
devices can greatly contribute to continued success," said Sal Dhanani, sr.
director, marketing and co-founder of TeleNav. "TeleNav Track gives
management the insight they need to improve field operations, delivery
quality customer service and save on overhead costs in the process."
TeleNav Track enables organizations to optimize mobile workforce operations
through mobile GPS tracking and navigation, wireless timesheets, job
dispatching and wireless forms -- all using existing GPS-enabled mobile
phones. Currently, more than 8,000 organizations rely on TeleNav Track to
help manage their mobile resources.
Industry analyst firm, Frost & Sullivan, recently recognized TeleNav Track
as the #1 MRM solution with its 2008 North American Mobility Award for Best
MRM Solution on a Handheld Device. For a free consultation or to order
TeleNav Track, customers should visit http://www.telenavtrack.com or call
1.88.TeleNav.2 (1.888.353.6282).
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About Brown Electric Co., Inc.
Brown Electric Co., Inc. is an industrial and commercial electrical
contractor specializing in new construction, electrical maintenance, fiber
optic installations, emergency power restoration projects, system upgrades
and instrumentation and control system services; such as, calibration,
checkout, troubleshooting and system commissioning. In order to support
these services, Brown Electric also offers project management and
professional engineering solutions to our clients.
For more information on Brown Electric, please visit www.brownelec.com.
About TeleNav, Inc.
TeleNav, Inc., a privately-held company headquartered in Sunnyvale,
California, was the first to launch a cell phone GPS system in the United
States. Deployed by 15 carriers in 21 countries, TeleNav is a global leader
in wireless location-based services (LBS). Currently, the company's
solutions are available in four continents, including North and South
America, Asia and Europe.
TeleNav's solutions include GPS navigation, Mobile Resource Management
(MRM), asset GPS tracking (AVL), social networking and local search. The
company's flagship product, TeleNav GPS Navigator™, is comparable to
in-car systems found in luxury vehicles, offering a superior experience
with functionality, such as automatically-updated maps and business
locations, full color 3D moving maps, traffic alerts and one-click
rerouting,
location-sharing, business reviews, speech recognition, Wi-Fi hotspot
finder,
lowest-price fuel finder and more. TeleNav's enterprise application,
TeleNav Track, incorporates GPS-enabled tracking, time sheets, wireless
forms and navigation. TeleNav Track is a widely adopted service with over
8,000 customer organizations using it today.
TeleNav products are available on more than 200 wireless devices and run on
all major mobile platforms currently available. TeleNav's partners include
Sprint Nextel, AT&T, T-Mobile USA, Alltel, Boost Mobile, Qwest,
SouthernLINC Wireless, Rogers, Bell Mobility, T-Mobile UK, T-Mobile
Austria, China Mobile, Vivo Brazil, NII Holdings, Research In Motion (RIM),
Motorola, Samsung, Sanyo, LG, Palm, HTC, Hewlett-Packard, Nokia, NAVTEQ,
Tele Atlas, deCarta, INRIX, Qualcomm and SiRF Technology Holdings.
For more information on TeleNav, please visit www.telenav.com.
