| Cell phone GPS tracking | | | | summon assistance by locating the exact position |
| Ever been stunned by the disappearance of your | | | | of the nearest ambulance via their GPS receiver. |
| mobile phone when you were quite sure you had | | | | This speedy response to your dire medical need is |
| locked it up securely!! If you had installed a GPS | | | | what saves your life. |
| mobile phone-tracking device, you would not be | | | | A GPS mobile phone tracker also assists in the |
| tearing out your hair and screaming in anger. | | | | quick delivery of documents and parcels via |
| Installing such a device could make you calmer as | | | | courier mobile phones. That chocolate gift basket |
| it would help you to track the location of the car. | | | | you received on your birthday, those flowers you |
| Of course, in such a scenario, don?t tear off in a | | | | have delivered to your sweetheart on Valentine |
| rush to heroically rescue your car! Contact the | | | | day, the dozens of pizza boxes that are delivered |
| police and let their efficient teams track down the | | | | for your office party, all these, and more, are |
| car and give the thief a nasty surprise. | | | | promptly sent via efficient transport mobile |
| A Basic Understanding of GPS | | | | phones equipped with GPS devices. It is the GPS |
| GPS is the abbreviated form of Global Positioning | | | | mobile phone tracker that keeps a check on the |
| System. There is a lot of mind-boggling | | | | location of every mobile phone and their routes. |
| technology involved, including the use of no less | | | | When you wish to go on a trip with your family in |
| than something in outer space: satellites lazily | | | | your camper, a GPS tracker in the mobile phone |
| circling our planet. Actually, the satellites are not | | | | will guide you down the right routes via its display |
| lazy! They are putting in a lot of hard work. To | | | | screen. On the screen you can obtain precise |
| put it in layman?s terms, a receiver in the mobile | | | | locations of campsites where you can take a |
| phone captures signals from the satellite. These | | | | breather. You will also know in advance if the area |
| signals are transmitted when the GPS satellite | | | | you are approaching is undergoing major |
| system coordinates the latitude and the longitude | | | | roadwork and the detour you need to take. |
| points of the receiver. The coordinates | | | | The driver of a public bus may need assistance |
| themselves are based on what is known as the | | | | when he has a flat tire. He can immediately |
| World Geodetic System 1984 (reference: | | | | contact use the emergency button of the GPS |
| bestnetcraft.com). The movement and locations | | | | device in the bus to contact the main bus station |
| of the mobile phone are recorded in the system, | | | | and request for help. Another bus can be sent to |
| and transmitted to the main control system, | | | | pick up the stranded passengers while the other is |
| wherever it is set up. | | | | being attended to by mechanics. |
| The System itself can be of 2 kinds: Active or | | | | Some Types of GPS mobile phone Trackers |
| Passive. | | | | One sophisticated type of a GPS Satellite Tracker |
| An active system is one that literally checks up | | | | is a device that you can mount in your mobile |
| on the mobile phone all along its route, even | | | | phone to enable you to monitor its location in any |
| noting its speed limits and parking time. | | | | region of the world. It has an external antenna |
| A passive system, on the other hand, merely | | | | and it can be remotely programmed via special |
| records the various points of the mobile phone?s | | | | software. You are provided with detailed street |
| route. This information is then downloaded on the | | | | maps of various countries, which you can opt to |
| mobile phone?s return. This helps, for example, a | | | | buy separately. The cost could generally be above |
| bakery to keep track of a delivery van?s usage | | | | $1200. |
| on a daily or a weekly basis. Suppose the driver | | | | A GPS pocket tracker enables you to monitor |
| returns abnormally late from delivering a box of | | | | the location of your car without the bother of |
| cakes. The owner of the bakery will immediately | | | | wiring systems. You track the mobile phone easily |
| know, via the downloaded information, whether | | | | via your laptop or pocket PC. The cost could be |
| the driver played truant and went off in a | | | | about $200. |
| different direction. Detailed questioning of the | | | | EMy car has a GPS Tracking device already |
| driver will result in him admitting that he went to a | | | | installed how do i track the car on the Internet?" |
| friend?s house to watch a World Cup cricket | | | | The average GPS receiver does not have a |
| match! | | | | transmitter and will not allow you to track your |
| In short, a GPS mobile phone tracker is a very | | | | truck or car so you will need a real GPS tracking |
| effective mode of keeping an eye on anything | | | | device. |
| that moves (and even when stationary), no | | | | Some mobile phone have OnStar which can find |
| matter how remote the location maybe. Of | | | | the location of your mobile phone and some use |
| course, some GPS tracking devices may have | | | | car dealers may install tracking device to keep |
| restricted range. | | | | track of their property till it it paid off. |
| What else can a free GPS mobile phone tracker | | | | It really depends on what type of tracking device |
| do? | | | | you have purchased. Some GPS tracking device |
| For one thing, it can be a wonderful first aid | | | | only record where the mobile phone has been and |
| assistant to you when you are caught in the | | | | you have to remove the tracking device to |
| midst of an emergency. Let?s suppose you are | | | | retrieve the route information. There are other |
| unfortunately the victim of a head-on collision | | | | GPS tracking device that uses GPRS and you can |
| between your bike and an oncoming car. A | | | | track it almost real time on the Internet, about |
| passing police cruiser comes to your aid | | | | every 2 minutes or so. |
| immediately. Realizing you require urgent medical | | | | There are also GPS devices that uses both GPRS |
| attention, the men in blue are instantly able to | | | | and WiFi like the DASH navigation system. |