Archive for February, 2010

Gps Cell Phone Tracking Technology

New regulations concerning GPS cell phone Tracking will make you more secure especially during emergencies. Under new FCC regulations (E911) all new cell phones must have a GPS chip installed during manufacturing. This allows the local 911 dispatcher to access your location during any emergency. This technology has already saved a great number of lives. In addition it has help law enforcement agencies to track and arrest criminal suspects. Besides, many manufactures have designed their phones to allow the user to use the phone for navigation. However GPS cell phone tracking technology is not without its critics.

Many people feel the new GPS cell phone tracking technology is another threat to their privacy. FCC regulations generally prohibit anyone from accessing your cell phone information including your GPS tracking information. Even law enforcement agencies are required to have a judicial warrant to enter your GPS cell phone tracking data. However, there are several new companies that have begun to provide private GPS cell phone tracking information on any cell phone user. GPS tracker is useful in our daily life for it ensure we travel safety .

The new GPS cell phone tracking technology allows the phone company and 911 dispatchers to accurate locate your cell phone to less 100 feet in most outdoor environments however if you live and work within the deep canyons of an urban setting the accuracy will be degraded to 300 feet or even more. Buildings that do not allow good cell phone coverage will obviously prevent cell phone tracking. Additionally if are located within area that blocks cell phone service. Lately a woman lost control of her car while on our local interstate ending up deep within the heavily treed median. She was trapped in the vehicle but could call 911 for assistance. Unfortunately she was unable to tell the dispatcher exactly where she was. State troopers and sheriff deputies spent time looking for her but her vehicle was not visible from the Interstate. Fortunately dispatch was able to access the GPS cell phone tracking information for her phone. Troopers could locate exactly where she was located and she was extricated from here vehicle and taken to the local hospital.

Personal Tracking Devices

GPS tracking is now a common technology used in everyday life. In business, sport or domestic scenarios GPS tracking has entirely changed the way we live our lives. However, GPS Tracking has a very important role to play in Crisis Management. As the satellite technology is introduced into various devices, such as Maritime Tracking devices, Military Tracking Devices and Vehicle Tracking devices we can give central communication bases better intelligence to help our troops on the ground in high conflict, remote areas. Personal Tracking Devices can be used in everyday or some high risk situations. Consider remote aid workers for example who put themselves at risk just to help those less fortunate then ourselves. Remote aid workers put themselves in high risk situations in foreign lands to deliver food, act as peace keeping parties and helping to educate those in some 3rd world countries. A personal tracking device might be the difference between an aid worker surviving or losing their life in a conflict situation. Most personal tracking devices are small enough to be extremely discrete so as not to interfere with the primary tasks of the remote workers. They allow for the position of the worker to be tracked through a central management team, but also offer the remote worker with a panic alert facility so if they enter a hostile environment they can alert the attention of the monitoring team. Because personal tracking devices use GPS (Satellite) they are ideal for remote locations in which cell phone technology just wouldn’t work. This means that they will work in even the most remote locations in, for example, Africa and Eastern Europe. Avoiding Crisis at all cost is a high priority, and through the use of inexpensive devices to help track employees you are able to avoid unnecessary injury, or even worse, loss of life. If you want to gain travel safety ,maybe GPS tracker can help you a lot.Of course Personal Tracking devices aren’t just for use in remote locations. Business travellers and VIP’s can also make use of them to help aid security and close protection teams. They are multi-functional devices that could be used for everyday use, sporting events and travellers.