A few years ago if you’d asked me if I needed a GPS system I would have said no. But a year ago I purchased a TomTom Navigator 6 and recently I’ve replaced it with a TomTom Go 720, and now I don’t know how I’d live without a GPS unit.
I’ve always wondered what other users GPS devices could be put to. The review that has just been purchased for this site is a great example. The GPS Tracking Key is designed to ‘open the door of unknown activity’ by allowing you to attach it to vehicles so that you can track the drivers activity.
The GPS Tracking Key is powered by just 2 AAA batteries and can be placed inside, outside and even underneath the vehicle using a powerful magnet. Some of the examples given on the site for potential uses of the key are quite scary:
- To track the location of kids
- To check if your partner is cheating on you
- To see if your employees are using your vehicles for personal use
- To produce travel history for company vehicles
With one of these devices there will be no need to call ‘Cheaters’ if you suspect your partner is having it away, just get a GPS Tracking key, that can pinpoint the position of the cheater to within 2.5 metres.
In order to make sense of the data that the GPS Tracking Key is sending, reports can be received via text reports or even better, the data can be downloaded and overlayed using Google Earth for analysis. I’m not sure how helpful this actually would be under the cheaters scenario, unless the GPS tracking Key also reports whether the ‘suspect’ stopped a certain address for an hour or two.
Although the device is small and easy to conceal, I think the battery live needs to be improved as the batteries need replacing too regularly, meaning that any surveillance operation would run the risk of getting caught e.g. if a car is driven 2 hours a day, the batteries will need changing every 2 weeks. I hope there’s a low battery warning, especially if a low battery would mean the device is providing incorrect information!
