ESRI Offers Real-Time Tracking with Tracking Server

ESRI (CA, USA) has announced the availability of Tracking Server, a solution for collecting and sending near real-time data from many data sources and formats to Web and desktop clients. Tracking Server was developed by Northrop Grumman to enable the integration of real-time data with GIS.
Tracking Server offers the following key features:

• an extensible architecture that allows it to receive data from new sources and transmit that data to new clients
  
• ability to log data as it is received to ArcSDE or distribute it directly to clients including ArcGIS Tracking Analyst
  
• a tracking message server component and a tracking Web distribution component that work together to collect and distribute data to the people who use it on the Web and as desktop clients.

Tracking Server has already been implemented by ESRI business partner CompassCom. CompassCom is a provider of solutions for GIS field data collection and automated vehicle location. Other uses include real-time tracking of assets through the supply chain life cycle.

Tracking Server is an ESRI solutions product. It is an enterprise-level technology that is integrated with ESRI's other server and services products.