Bayer Protective Services Saves More Than $216,000 Annually on Field Management and Dispatch Costs With TeleNav
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SUNNYVALE, CA and SACRAMENTO, CA, Apr 20 (MARKET WIRE)
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Bayer Protective Services, Inc., a regional contract security firm, has
improved its reporting ability with its clients and has increased employee
accountability through TeleNav Track(TM), a cell phone-based GPS
navigation and tracking service. The company is also using Nextel Direct
Connect and wireless devices from Sprint for instant employee
communication.
"We turned to TeleNav Track to more effectively manage our security
officers," said Bryon Bayer, president of Bayer Protective Services.
"Prior to TeleNav Track, supervisorial personnel had to physically check
each guard location to make sure our officers were doing the job
assigned. By implementing TeleNav Track, we are able to confirm in real
time that our employees are doing what they say, which has reduced our
field management costs by more than $120,000 a year."
Founded in 1995, Bayer Protective Services currently provides over 250,000
security man-hours a year to high-end commercial and industrial property
clientele. With its annual service revenue at just under $5 million, Bayer
Protective Services is one of the largest regional security providers in
its industry. Always looking for ways to offer its clients the greatest
return on investment, the company undertook efforts to ensure maximum
operational efficiency.
In the physical security industry, clients will commonly voice concerns
about not seeing their assigned guards very often. By deploying TeleNav
Track on 100 Nextel phones available from Sprint, Bayer Protective
Services has made its processes completely transparent to its clients.
The company uses breadcrumb reports to show clients where assigned guards
were located at specific times, as well as providing them a copy of the
report to review in greater detail.
TeleNav Track has also eliminated the issues of timecard rounding. With
geofencing, and wireless timecard notifications, Bayer Protective Services
is able to monitor where officers are in real time. As a result, the
company is able to patrol 1,400 site locations a week with five patrols,
saving over 100 hours each week in operations costs.
As well as increased insight into everyday practices, Bayer Protective
Services has seen additional savings through more efficient dispatch
efforts with TeleNav Track. By being able to route, track and verify the
same amount of work, the company has reduced labor and vehicle-related
expenses. What used to cost Bayer Protective Services $10,000 a month is
now only $2,000 -- providing a net savings of $96,000 annually.
With Nextel Direct Connect, Bayer Protective Services can communicate with
its patrol officers out in the field immediately with just the push of a
button. Sprint provides Nextel Direct Connect on the fastest national
push-to-talk network (based on initial call set-up time). Additionally,
the company has significantly reduced the cost of two-way radio
communication, all while operating on a private frequency.
"In growing industries such as physical security services, it is crucial
that companies be able to provide clients with a measurable return on
their investment," said Keith Halasy, senior marketing manager of B2B
products at TeleNav. "TeleNav Track helps companies compete by improving
the way they conduct business. By better monitoring the services it
provides, Bayer Protective Services is able to pass its savings on
directly to their customers, thus keeping a satisfied and increasing
clientele."
Currently, more than 9,000 organizations rely on TeleNav Track to help
manage their mobile resources. In addition, industry analyst firm, Frost &
Sullivan, recognized TeleNav Track with its 2008 North American Mobility
Award for Best MRM Solution on a Handheld Device. For a free consultation
or to order TeleNav Track, please visit http://www.telenavtrack.com or
call 1.88.TeleNav.2 (1.888.353.6282).
To subscribe to an RSS feed of TeleNav press releases, please go to
http://feeds.feedburner.com/telenav/press-releases/.
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 13 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), social networking and local search. The company's flagship service,
TeleNav GPS Navigator(TM), offers functionalities comparable to in-car
systems and standalone navigation devices such as automatically-updated
maps and business locations, full-color 3D moving maps, traffic alerts
with one-click rerouting, location-sharing, business reviews, speech
recognition, Wi-Fi hotspot finder, gas price finder and more. TeleNav
also delivers its award-winning navigation service on the TeleNav
Shotgun(TM), a standalone GPS personal navigation device (PND) tailored
specifically for business travelers. TeleNav's enterprise application,
TeleNav Track(TM), incorporates GPS-enabled tracking, time sheets,
wireless forms and navigation. TeleNav Track is a widely adopted service
with over 9,000 customer organizations using it today.
TeleNav services are available on more than 450 wireless devices and run
on most major mobile platforms currently available. TeleNav's partners
include Alltel, AT&T, Bell Mobility, Boost Mobile, China Mobile, deCarta,
Ford Motor Company, Hewlett-Packard, HTC, INRIX, LG, Motorola, NAVTEQ, NII
Holdings, Nokia, Palm, Qualcomm, Research In Motion (RIM), Rogers,
Samsung, Sanyo, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile Austria, T-Mobile UK, T-Mobile
USA, Telcel, Tele Atlas, Turnpike Global Technologies, Verizon Wireless
and Vivo Brazil.
For more information on TeleNav, please visit www.telenav.com.
Copyright 2009 TeleNav, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
"TeleNav," "TeleNav Track," "telenavtrack," the TeleNav logo, and
"telenav.com" are registered and unregistered trademarks and/or service
marks of TeleNav, Inc. Unless otherwise noted, all other trademarks,
service marks, and logos used in this press release are the trademarks,
service marks or logos of their respective owners.
Contacts:
Mary Beth Lowell
TeleNav, Inc.
425.531.0122
Email Contact
Melanie Wehrman / Kate Sowell
LEWIS PR for TeleNav
Melanie: 408.573.3665
Kate: 408.573.3664
Email Contact
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