Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Vehicle Tracking System

By hispanic


Covert vehicle tracking is not something that civilians used to engage in as it used to be reserved for military service. With all the forms of car theft and carjacking happening though nowadays, civilians need to be able to protect themselves from criminals who may target their cars. Covert vehicle tracking has become essential even to just the average citizen. Basically it is a way of tracking a vehicle and determining where it is exactly, without the driver having to be aware that the car is being tracked. A special vehicle tracking system is installed and used in order to be able to do this.

These type of occurrences are what made covert vehicle tracking so essentially useful nowadays especially to the average citizen. Covert vehicle tracking is the process of tracking and determining a certain vehicle's location via a vehicle tracking system in such a way that the driver of the vehicle is not made aware that he or she is being tracked. An obvious real world application of such a concept is the pinpointing of the location of a stolen vehicle by law enforcers. Unlike before when vehicle tracking simply meant dangerous interstate car chases, vehicle tracking nowadays uses methods that are so inconspicuous the culprits won't even know they are already being followed until it is too late.

A good example of a covert vehicle tracking system is the LoJack Stolen Vehicle Recovery System. This particular system uses a small, indistinct transmitter that is often installed in a random location inside the vehicle. The transmitter in fact looks like a regular car component, unlikely to be detected as a transmitting device even in plain sight.

The LoJack is the primary form of vehicle tracking system being used by several police jurisdictions. The transmitter of a particular vehicle is automatically activated upon receiving a report of that vehicle being stolen. From there, an accurate location of the transmitter is given and this increases the chances of finding the stolen vehicle. Frequencies sent from the transmitter to the remote controller is the system that the LoJack tracker uses.

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