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By measuring the fuel level in the tank continuously rather than at intervals, so that fuel leaving the tank appears as an event with a time and a place, rather than as an unexplained difference between two readings.

An e-seal is an electronic seal fitted to a shipping container that locks it, tracks it and reports on it — combining an electronic lock, GPS tracking, door and tamper detection, geofencing and an inbuilt camera in one unit.

A PoC radio — push-to-talk over cellular — is a handset that behaves like a two-way radio but carries the voice over a mobile data network instead of transmitting directly to another handset.

An anti-jamming tracker is one that treats the loss of its mobile signal as an event in its own right — alerting you and acting on it — instead of simply going quiet like an ordinary tracker does.

A geofence is a boundary drawn on a map that a tracking system treats as meaningful: when a vehicle crosses it, the system records the crossing and can alert you.

Telematics is the combination of telecommunications and vehicle data: a device in the vehicle collects information about where it is and what it is doing, and sends it over a mobile network to somewhere you can read it.

Immobilisation is the ability to prevent a vehicle's engine from starting or continuing to run, either through the vehicle's own factory immobiliser or through a fitted system that can be triggered remotely.