Porter describes those GPSI services as "channels," and the company does begin to sound a bit like a fledgling media empire.
The GPSI equipment, installed at the Club Car factory, can cost as little as $15 per car per month, depending on what services the customer wants, Porter said. It can display an on-screen overview of a property as a golf cart passes it. The system also is helping to sell real estate. Those opportunities include master-planned communities, college campuses, military installations and manufacturing plants, he said. "It is the launch of a new commercial segment for GPSI and our exclusive partner, Club Car, that expands our collective fleet management and telematics into nongolf applications and is GPSI's introduction into additional commercial opportunities," Porter said in a statement. The 6-year-old GPSI developed its products for the golf industry, and now controls fleets of carts and keeps players informed at major courses such as Desert Mountain in Scottsdale, Arizona The Polo Club in Boca Raton the Congressional Country Club in Maryland and Trump National Doral Miami.Īlthough Casa de Campo has 90 holes of championship golf, GPSI's system will be used by guests at its resort or living in its villas to get around the huge property established on the site of a sugar plantation by the Gulf & Western Industries Inc., according to the resort's website. The resort on the Dominican Republic's southeastern coast includes a 245-acre shooting center, a polo and equestrian club, a tennis center, a yacht club and its own artisans' village, Altos de Chavon, modeled on a 16th century Mediterranean village. More will be equipped with the system as the 41-year-old resort upgrades its 300-cart fleet, said Ben Porter, GPSI CEO.īecause the resort does not have shuttles, it instead supplies guests and employees with golf carts. There, 80 four-passenger golf carts made by Georgia-based Club Car are equipped with GPSI's Visage Resort Edition system.
It's the next-best thing to self-driving cars.Ī Sarasota-based maker of systems that connect golf carts and other low-speed vehicles has a new product that:Īnd the company, GPS Industries LLC, has landed a big initial customer for its Visage system - the 7,000-acre Casa de Campo resort in the Dominican Republic.
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