The personal tracker from Maplin combines both GSM and GPS technologies in an easy-to-use package. Sold as a device to help monitor vulnerable individuals, it wouldn’t take much imagination to conceal the device as a covert tracking device. The personal tracker has the facility to store up to 3 telephone numbers for emergencies. By pressing one of the pre-set buttons, the person with the tracker can quickly speak to someone at the end of one of those phone numbers.
The tracker also has an SOS button, which when pressed, will send the exact GPS coordinates of the tracker to up to 3 preset mobile phone numbers. The SOS button allows the vulnerable person to send for help, whilst providing rescuers with detailed location information.
If you want to find out the location of the tracker at any time, you simply send a text message to the tracker from any mobile phone. You’ll quickly get a reply with the GPS coordinates of the tracker. Once you have the GPS coordinates via SMS, you simply enter the coordinates into Google Maps or Bing Maps to determine the nearest landmarks and road names.
The personal tracker clearly has a very specific practical application, but it just goes to show how small GPS trackers have become, and how useful they can be!
This article is a guest post by Dan Harrison. Once upon a time, Dan used to design spy gadgets and gps trackers for private detectives and UK police forces!
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