placeline

Open source sample app to track the movement history of your workforce

We built an app to track our movement throughout the day and discovered that you could benefit from it. Today, we're releasing it as an open-source sample app.

api

Integrating with our APIs just got easier

Improved capabilities and better integration experiences are coming your way! This week, we rolled out the following updates to our APIs ...

dashboard

Build live location dashboards for asset tracking with ReactJS

You can now build your own live location tracking dashboard for asset tracking with ReactJS. To customize your HyperTrack dashboard experience–swap out the map layer, change the icon, add tool-tips, swap out the device list, and more–use this newly released React Views module.

hypertrack live

Build live location sharing in your app with these open-source samples

We open-sourced a simple app that starts tracking upon granting location permissions. User can share live location through a short URL, sent through their favorite messaging app, to track live location.

Technology

How we built a serverless architecture with AWS

Our customers go serverless for live locations with HyperTrack. We go serverless for our platform with AWS. In this blog, we give you a peek under the hood and share our learnings.

trips

New Trips API, short URLs for shared views, and dashboard live support

More HyperTrack features are coming your way: Check out the Trips API, short URLs for shared views, and chat support from within the dashboard

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HyperTrack Culture

HyperTrack culture: make customers happy, the quality-speed flywheel, radically open communication, proactive and respectful

product

V3 Updates: React Native quickstarts, improved webhooks, and embeddable views

We have a lot of exciting news for you! Many asked for a React Native quickstart, improved webhooks, and embeddable views. Today, we’re delivering!

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Why I joined HyperTrack

A blog about Alexander Graebe joining HyperTrack as Head of Developer Experiences

company

Painting the town green with HyperTrack

HyperTrack JS front ends to view real-time location streams on a map. These views always tell us stories we least expect. This post shares some of these stories.

product

HyperTrack V3 makes live location tracking easy for app developers

Building apps with live location tracking is harder than it needs to be. HyperTrack V3 just fixed that. Disclaimer: Not a good fit for tracking consumers.

ondemand

Reducing on-demand delivery time with activity data

Performance of an on-demand delivery is measured as delivery time–time taken from placing the order to delivery to the customer. Reducing delivery time leads to happier customers, higher income for delivery riders, and better business for the on-demand delivery company.

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Heartbee–a family safety app built with HyperTrack

These hackathon winners built an app for remote families to track the the health and safety of their elderly parents in Chinatown San Francisco

movement

Movement part 3 — Real-time

This article talks about challenges faced in building real-time location tracking apps across the entire stack (device, server, UI) and some approaches to overcome those. This is part three of a ten part series called Movement.

android

HyperTrack supports the new Transition API for Android Activity Recognition

Today, Android announced Activity Recognition's new Transition API. HyperTrack was amongst the few pre-release evaluation partners for the Transition API (hat tip to our friends at Life360 for making the connection). We have

customer case study

How Trucke is moving the needle

This is a guest post by Josh Amaku, co-founder and CTO at Trucke. About Trucke Trucke is a startup reinventing the moving experience. We are disrupting the industry by applying the core principles

movement

Movement part 2 — Accuracy

This article talks about techniques, methods and algorithms to get accurate location and activity data. This is part two of a ten part series called Movement.

movement

Movement part 1 — OS

This article talks about the evolution of Android and iOS from location to movement services. This is part one of a ten part series called Movement.

movement

Movement — Introduction

This is the introduction to a ten part series about building movement-aware applications.

tracking experience

Uber vs HyperTrack location tracking experience

I was in an Uber the other day. I used their Share ETA feature in the app so my friend could track my ride. In parallel, I shared my live location using HyperTrack

customer case study

How A/C equipment provider P&T Ltd refreshed its delivery experience with HyperTrack

This is a guest post by András Takács, Development and Marketing Manager at Planning & Trading Ltd. First, some background P&T Ltd imports and distributes A/C units in Hungary (where

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HyperLog: Android Remote Logger Library for Debugging

HyperLog, a utility logger library for Android on top of standard Android Log class for debugging purpose. It is not easy to debug live mobile apps or libraries, or create every possible environment

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Augmento–a social path time machine built with HyperTrack

This is a guest post by Ed Arenberg. Ed built one of the top entries at the HyperTrack hackathon at API World 2017 in San Jose. Here is the demo video. Introduction Augmento

hackathon

HyperTrack got PyConned

PyCon is the largest annual gathering for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language. HyperTrack decided to be a part of PyCon India 17 as a Platinum sponsor. We were

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HyperTrack at Code-off 2017 Hackathon

Last week Hypertrack team was at IIIT Delhi as one of the main sponsors for Women Who Code’s Code-off hackathon. Around 150 students from all corners of Delhi region participated, and needless