In recent times, affordable GPS tracking technology has led to an explosion in the manufacture of cheap and effective GPS devices. These are successfully being fitted into an increasing diverse number of applications, from car tracking devices to GPS watches. Nowadays you can download a tourist guide app to your GPS activated mobile phone or strap a GPS tracking device to your dog.
The ever-increasing variety of uses means that you never need to be lost again or be stuck deciding on where you should go out to eat. GPS tracking has revolutionised many aspects of travel, shopping and physical exercise by giving pinpoint locations for individuals, businesses or vehicles anywhere on the planet.
The types of GPS tracking products typically available include:-
Car and van trackers. Small tracking devices that are easily fitted to domestic or commercial vehicles and give complete information, either live or passively via a memory chip, as to distance, direction and speed travelled. Fleet vehicle trackers are useful for monitoring the whereabouts of multiple vehicle users such as taxi firms or parcel couriers and delivery companies.
Global trackers can be used to transmit a signal every two hours from anywhere on the planet, whether in remote locations, at sea or in the middle of a busy city. Useful for tracking commercial containers, following adventurers, sailing or following long road trips.
Personal trackers are a range of miniature devices that allow users to trace movement on laptops. These are useful for monitoring dogs, kids or progress while undertaking sporting activities such as marathon running. Covert trackers are useful for investigative or secret tracking when you do not wish an intended target to necessarily know they are being followed or for the use in car security and recovery.
These include pen trackers, matchbox sized devices and watches that can be easily attached to an individual or object needing to be followed. GPS mobile phones, the majority of modern touch-screen phones contain a tracking facility and by downloading functional apps such as maps and street guides or social functions like restaurant and estate agent programs you can find places to eat, sleep and entertain yourself at the touch of a button.
GPS has rapidly become the must have facility on any new device and people are instantly able to pinpoint their locations and find sites of local interest, shops or wandering children without any fuss at all.