Currently, Vehicle tracking equipment is freely available to the general public. Satellite tracking can be also be contracted with minimal equipment costs and a monthly fee.
In security and surveillance, there is nothing better than having your ‘eyes’ on your target.
A surveillance team wishes it could be able to keep watch on their target by having him in view constantly but we know that's not possible. Especially, when the target knows he's being observed. When this happens we can use electronic technology to help the surveillance or security team.
What seems to be many years ago this author would use Direction Finding transmitters (DF) to keep watch on a target. We would attached a transmitter to a vehicle and track it using special receivers. The transmitters would send out a beep every few seconds for a good distance of a thousand yards or little more. The system worked but it could give you headaches and it required several or more vehicles working together to track down a vehicle in the city.
However the world has changed, technology has greatly improved everything it touches and it has touched tracking.
I believe that zoologist and animal trackers have been instrumental in these new advances. It was always important for this author to stay aware of such people and their systems.
To me they always seem to be about five to six years ahead of security and surveillance professionals.
In this new age, thanks to animal trackers, we now track people and their vehicles with satellites. Security and companies across the nation now employ GPS tracking technology to monitor their mobile assets such as vehicles and people.
To quote LandAirSea at vehicle-tracking.com
“Sensitive receivers placed inside the vehicles get readings from a system of 24 satellites in space, then transmit location data by wireless network so that they can be read from a remote computer. By capturing readings at regular intervals, usually every few minutes, GPS tracking systems illustrate the bus as it progresses on its route. Multiple vehicles can be viewed over a map simultaneously. This is called active tracking.”
Administrators
at a large school district in Colorado plan to take Global
Positioning System ( GPS tracking) technology a step further, by
monitoring the buses in their fleet while they’re out on their
routes, and also the students in them. The
school system has its eye on a dual-purpose vehicle
tracking system that will show – on computer in real time -
their buses as they travel around the district. It will also monitor
the comings and goings of their students, who will carry
individualized ID cards that will scan as they embark and disembark
the bus. The technology is similar to a key card. There are numerous
tracking system's and providers currently available.
I recommend LandAirSea's at http://www.vehicle-tracking.com.
LandAirSea's tracking equipment is very durable and fairly inexpensive compared to other providers. The equipment is easy to install and easy to operate. A LandAirSea's GPS tracking system records 300 hours of driving data. It is downloaded to computer using LandAirSea’s free software, included in it's package. Driving activity will be or can be displayed over an animated digital street map, in a text report or over satellite imagery using Google Earth.
Lesson to be learned here is;
Tracking a vehicle is now easier than ever.
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