Gps vehicle tracker

after reading some new threads about nicked Landies, I found this...looks like it does the job

New Vehicle GPS/GSM Tracker Car Van Truck Fleet Boat on eBay (end time 02-Feb-10 21:19:10 GMT)

would need to be hidden and have it's own separate power supply methinks

there's a bloke on here that develops something along these lines

mmmm..could run it off the aux battery...

I asked the same question a while back. I'm gonna get one myself as soon as funds allow.

Email or PM Ryder

He has some out there working for a few companies I think he said its 100% vehicle return rate and a few funny stories about what kind of things he has recovered with his own GPS tracking system. its cleaver stuff if a vehicle moves between a set time period set by the owner he gets an immediate sms txt and can shut down the engine and or anything a relay can operate (think South Africa) Not legal in the UK tho.

and hide it behind some trim in the back-aerial up a door pillar...mmm thinkin thinkin.

cheers Jai

im thinking of this aswell just been down my local audio shop today and found these In Car Electronix Limited :: Tracking
and seriously thinking about the smart track alert 24 wehere you can also put an area of which when your car goes out of it they send you a txt. and you can moniter where your car is 24/7 within a metre the shop says . but the 1 catch is you have to pay a subsription of £160 a year to the tracking company . also asked if it did get nicked could you get the location to get it back etc they said yes but the police probably would be there before you . and its the size of a relay so easy to disguise also drops your insurance

Maplins do a sms based gps tracker that doesn't carry any subscription charges.

Hi Guys,

This is on topic so I hope you don't think of it as spam!

Things to remember...

Insurance companies do not give discounts for cars with after market tracking systems. Sales people will tell you otherwise, but if they do then ask for the company concerned and phone them if this is an aspect you are interested in.

If someone wants your motor badly enough they will get it. All we can do as an industry is slow them down and improve the chances of recovery.

Tracking devices come on all shapes and sizes... and costs to suit every budget. You DO, however, get what you pay for where the equipment is concerned.

A 12 or 16 channel GPS receiver will give a more reliable position than a 4 channel, but might cost a little more. A unit with digital outputs, allowing you to switch devices in the vehicle on or off, will cost more than a dedicated GPS tracker that does nothing else.

I have clients who have recovered vehicles stranded in France and Germany, after the driver had been gassed for his passport and wallet.

Look at the accompanying software. Does the unit come with a subscription to a web site that will allow you to locate your vehicle on a map? I know ours goes down to street level worldwide, and Rusty Rhinos used it last year in the Sahara (Tunisia and Algeria) to allow folks back home to track their progress.

Letting the Police get there first would be a wonderful thing if the buggers responded fast enough. When they do then they might get the tea leafs... when they don't then you will get to the vehicle before them (assuming you have fitted some sort of inhibitor.)

Finally...

Give due consideration to the power delivery and the location of the unit. Antennae can be discreet and not visible from the outside of the motor, and assuming you are not stupid enough to put a feckin great sign on the outside of the vehicle that says "Tracked By Wewantourlandyback.com", you will get the vehicle back.

Power wise: A supplementary car battery is serious overkill and might be a target, so fitting a small battery of between 10 and 30 volts (in my case), and allowing it to charge from the main alternator will prevent the trtacker from being disabled through simply disconnecting the battery.

Check out my sig for more details or PM me. It's my pet project so I should be able to answer any queries you might have.

Cheers

Ryder

OH! One thing I forgot to mention:

SMS tracking is much less reliable than GPRS (internet) based tracking. Just think of how long it took your SMS to get to you loved ones when you wished them Happy New Year at Midnight on New Year's eve. SMS messages can be delayed, something that is kind of counter productive.

Originally, SMS was the only technology able to complete the tracking requests, but they were expensive and unrelilable; just ask Minor Planet - industry leaders at that time. This is why all reputable systems use GPRS - the units cost a little more but are a hundred times better.

For those who want to go the whole hog, some of our units will allow you to take a photo of the driver and view it on the web site... great for future prosecutions!

think there's a big market for a £50 device that can be hidden somewhere along with a nicad topped up via the alt

sooner or later it'll be on dragons den getting big bucks just to market it to the likes of us lot

so yu dont recomend no tracker - just a "Tracked By Wewantourlandyback.com" sticker on the back then?

its a bit expensive don't ya think?

i know its not as expensive as getting the car replaced but at 120 quid a year its just like another tax!

what about something a little cheaper?

a payg sim and a second battery. some of these devices(most) have thier own power supply which should be adquate to direct the cops to its location if you set the geofence/movement alerts up!!!

i'm pretty sure there is cheaper methods that yours. quality is another issue but then the device only has to work once and you can buy another for 50 quid!!

have a looksy:

gps gsm tracker, Consumer Electronics, Vehicle Parts Accessories, Home Garden items at low prices on eBay.co.uk

The Mad Hat Man said:

so yu dont recomend no tracker - just a "Tracked By Wewantourlandyback.com" sticker on the back then?

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LOL no... the sticker tells the tea leafs to use a jammer!

gavbriggs said:

its a bit expensive don't ya think?

i know its not as expensive as getting the car replaced but at 120 quid a year its just like another tax!

what about something a little cheaper?

a payg sim and a second battery. some of these devices(most) have thier own power supply which should be adquate to direct the cops to its location if you set the geofence/movement alerts up!!!

i'm pretty sure there is cheaper methods that yours. quality is another issue but then the device only has to work once and you can buy another for 50 quid!!

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We are talking about 2 different applications here. The device you refer to is a simple location device - preferably without any server backup and providing only Lat-Lon information, not showing it on a map or providing historical reports of movements etc.

The device that I describe on the site does much more. It is backed up by quite a decent program that handles web based requests for information and so on.

£120 per year is, for a system of this complexity, comparatively cheap. This is not a "Use Once" device. The issue really is whether the people who develop these systems should be allowed a reasonable return on their development time. In my case four years. Many people pay much more money for systems that do much less - it really comes down to deciding what you want from the device.

If you want a cheap tracker that does nothing but track... they are available from as little as £150.00. But there is precious little by way of support. I would have thought that either purchasing the device outright, paying monthly, or paying a small contribution for use of the server space would be a good investment.

£120 per year for this kind of protection - against the value of your landy might be seen as worthwhile.

I actually made a point of offering someone else on this forum the tracker they wanted at the price they said they wanted to pay with no subscription for three years -

They suddenly changed their tune and decided not to go to such lengths to proterct their vehicle. ALSO - as a safety device when my daughter is out in the car... priceless.

Sean said:

think there's a big market for a £50 device that can be hidden somewhere along with a nicad topped up via the alt

sooner or later it'll be on dragons den getting big bucks just to market it to the likes of us lot

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No it won't. The dragons would not be interested in investing because the technology is not new. Prices are coming down year on year but the temptation to use cheap chinese devices is happily being tempered by a little caution from the bigger users.

I can copyright my software - but I can not stop the next guy from writing the same program or providing the same service. That's partly why it has to be profitable... otherwise development stops and in five years the system is next to useless.

Who thought Pebble was a good name for it???

Ryder said:

LOL no... the sticker tells the tea leafs to use a jammer!

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LOL can you supply these?

So a tracker is no use nor ornament if someone has a jammer then?