GPS and other stuff it could be used for

Something like this unit?

http://trl.trimble.com/dscgi/ds.py/Get/File-154831/trimtrac_datasheet.pdf

- Certainly, vehicles of all kinds (personal vehicles, fleet vehicles, ag/con equipment, trailers, containers, etc).

- Could probably put a device like that into a kid's school backpack or a teenage girl's purse.

- Include the device in the package with high-value shipments (jewelry, drugs, etc)?

- Need a smaller version to attach to a pet's collar.

 

TEENAGERS!

 

Same thing the above were thinking: young children, teens, pets.

Prisoners - there might even be a use in prison management to be able to track them in the facility, make sure they're in right quadrant at the right time (or else their head blows up, ala Running Man).

 

Lots of people use them to track cheating spouses. Stalkers use 'em. Maybe as a theft recovery tool. Generally if you want to know and follow the whereabouts of someone or something. Right now a live system is kinda pricey and you have to pay monthly fees.

 

Belongings that are typically stolen without the theives with any sort of technical knowledge knowing that it is installed.

 

That girl over there, buying a coffee...

 

GPS (and accelerometer) based track logging

http://www.race-technology.com/WebPage2/Products/DL1/DL1Home.html

 

yeah and it's only the comms side of things that keeps it that way. gps and mapping are the easy part for me (i do it every day) but having something send a message where it is every n seconds is costly.

that said, i'd attach one to my socks as i'd sure as hell like to know where they go when i put them in the dryer!

 

silicone

 

The t.v. remote, the portable phone, my wife's car keys...

 

I was wondering about the accuracy, and I'm a techno idiot... I have never heard "hertz" mentioned in reference to GPS... When it says "5 Hertz" GPS does this mean it updates its location 5 times every second? If so, that's pretty fast.

 

reckon it must

 

Read their site and it tells you a lot about how they use GPS... "Outputs position, speed, position accuracy and speed accuracy every 200ms with no interpolation. GPS tracking loops optimised for applications up to about 4g. tracking of all satellites in view."

It has LOTS of goodies

http://www.race-technology.com/WebPage2/Products/DL1/DL1Spec.html

http://www.race-technology.com/WebPage2/Products/Software/SoftwareHome.html

 

Roger that.

 

I think packages in shipment would be a good thing to use it for... especially diamonds etc like someone mentioned above.

 

I read today that a MA councillor wants GPS in every handgun.

 

As I look into the crystal ball in the very state I live, I see things that have alternative motives. Because history repeats itself. Man is predictable.

After that passes in California "for the good of the children", they will pass an additional law that makes it mandatory that all newborns be implanted with GPS tracking. Their reasoning will be this; it will assist in locating lost children and help speed record processing for medical. Everyone will embrace it, they will love it. It's for the children. And they will modify it along the way. When the children grow up and depending on their path in life, their chip ID will be linked to criminal, personal, financial databases and everyone can be found. Everywhere they go, everthing they do will be recorded. Special hardware equiped to read their ID chip will approve or deny services. This same hardware will inform government where you are and arn't supposed at any given time. As you go about your daily life, each movement of your location and transaction must coincide with your tax data. You belong to the system.

and they ONLY want to GPS track guns?

 

I bet that the technology to have unobtrusive implantable GPS is still a ways out...... RFID tags are one thing but GPS is another.