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I’ve just recently discovered that the City purchased — at least a year ago — a dozen GPS units and a license to Grey Island Systems’ InterFleet application for the purpose of tracking the City’s snow plow fleet. Public Works staff have been tinkering with the system but it has not been fully deployed. The intention is to eventually have a public-facing map on the City’s website that shows the location of all the plows in real-time.

Staff have access to a wider array of functionality such as vehicle history that would theoretically allow staff to respond when told, “Your plow knocked off my car’s side-view mirror last night on Ambrose Street”, by saying “Actually, there were no snow plows on Ambrose Street last night”, which may or may not be the basis for another complaint. I haven’t actually seen the product in action yet, and by all accounts this project has fallen off the radar somewhat, so I plan to stick my geeky nose into this business and find out what exactly we’ve purchased and how (or if) it can be put to good use.