Tuesday, August 26, 2008

The Kinds of Vehicle Tracking Systems

By Salvador Paez


Many car owners find vehicle tracking very important. It's a highly useful addition to any automobile. If you think that vehicle tracking is just about installing a tracking system into a car and letting another hardware home in on the system, you're wrong. This is an innovative technology that has undergone numerous efficient changes ever since its first use in shipping. Just like other technologies, it also needs a particular effective system so it'll work at its best.

Made with a set of electronics, a vehicle tracking system is a device that's useful when locating a particular vehicle, either by other third party groups or by the owner himself. The tracking system also has a specific protocol, used by the electronic devices so they can perform their job well and be in contact with each other.

Many modern day vehicle tracking systems are used today, such as:

GPS - This is the most famous kind of vehicle tracking system available today. Maintained and controlled by the government, this is an efficient satellite tracking system. It's very budget-friendly, even for ordinary citizens.

GPS has many user-friendly functions. For one, because it uses satellite tracking, it doesn't need a direct line with the sky. This makes it more efficient and reliable in numerous ways. GPS's efficiency is even preferred by numerous law enforcing automobiles, and it's considered their most common way of tracking vehicles.

LoJack- The name of this vehicle tracking system is supposed to be comical, derived from the word "hijack". This tracking device is manufactured and produced by the LoJack corporation.

Another friendly feature of the GPS is that, being a satellite tracking system, it does not require direct line of with the sky, which makes it extremely efficient in a lot of ways. A significant majority of law enforcement vehicles use GPS as their primary form of vehicle tracking system.

LORAN, which also makes use of radio frequency like LoJack, is another popular kind of vehicle tracking system.

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