How does one incorporate product tracking into a website?

I know you can track a product or cargo using RFID technology. How do you incorporate that feature into a website where users can track it? Does the RFID reader send the info to the web servers? Is that how it works?



What about GPS? For example, a vehicle that has a GPS device, and our website want to be able to locate and track the vehicle in real time. Does it require that the GPS device communicates with the servers in some way? Is it usually through the cell phone network? ThanksHow does one incorporate product tracking into a website?
Such systems have to be built and improved for years as the above user said it would be better to use the existing tracking system then to build your own from scratch. And yes, such systems send GPS data to their servers databases to process and store.



If you are looking for a web-based GPS product tracking solution it is advisable to use only the most reputable services which have been around for years and improved their GPS tracking software based on their long experience with many customers.How does one incorporate product tracking into a website?
Unless you have very deep pockets, you probably want to buy a solution rather than building your own. The price tag to develop from scratch is going to run into the $millions. Easily.



RFID and GPS are reasonably dumb devices that do one thing, but do it well. They tell you what is on a tag, or they tell you where on earth you are. But they don't automagically send that data to your server, or write a web app for you so people can see where their asset is on a map. You need to write code to make that happen. Quite a bit of code, actually. (I do it for a living).



Yes, cell phone or satellite are your basic choices for pushing the data from device to server. There are pros and cons to each. And of course neither is free ;-). So you have to know how to charge customers accordingly.How does one incorporate product tracking into a website?
My guess is that you would need to store all information in a database, and as the product is moved, a new record is stored and made available to the consumer through table readers, etc.