Vehicle Tracking Device
Vehicle Tracking Device -
A vehicle tracking device employs GPS ( global positioning satellite) technology to pin-point the exact loaction of a vehicle. You can also determine where and what time a vehicle was at a specific location. Applications for this are obvious.
These popular tracking systems are avilable to anyone who feels the need to discreetly monitor the where abouts of a person and or particular vehicle.
So...who is being tracked with using this popular product? This technology is most popular for those wishing to track:
- Employees
- Spouses
- Teenage Drivers
- Businesses relying on delivery efficency
How Vehicle Tracking Devices Work
Here are some of the common features you will find with most vehicle tracking devices:
- Utilize GPS technology
- Most tracking devices are easy to install, taking less than 1 minute, and usually magnetically attaching to any flat metal surface under the car.
- Typically vehicle tracking devices weigh only a few pounds.
- Most run off of AA cell batteries, which will usually log travel data for 3-4 months.
- Many units have built in motion detect sensing to track when a vehicle is stopped for a specific time interval. If the vehicle is stopped for more than 5 minutes, for example, the unit will go into a virtual sleep mode. It will continue tracking once the vehicle resumes motion.
- To see where the vehicle has been, you typically remove the tracking device from the car and with a USB cable, attach the tracking device to your computer. The provided software will display a travel history of where the vehicle has been. including location and duration of stops.
- Display on many brands is similar to a "Mapquest" interface - for easy visual reference, which flags stop, start points on the roads traveled.
- Many of these vehicle tracking devices are accurate to about 50 feet.
- The more sophisticated systems offer email updates of the vehicle tracking data.
- Prices vary but expect to pay around $300 - $700 for a reasonably good quality vehicle tracking system.
Here are some of the more popular selling vehicle tracking devices: Vehicle Tracking Devices