| Vehicle Trackers Prove Their Worth To The | | | | Lithium battery technology have meant that |
| Modern Investigator | | | | powering the devices on an extended deployment |
| Up until 2006, whilst working as a Private | | | | is no longer an issue. The devices themselves |
| Investigator I was constantly asked whether | | | | have become smaller and more intelligent and the |
| there was a way to track a vehicle by attaching | | | | tracking platforms that the vehicle trackers send |
| a tracker underneath. At the time there was no | | | | their information to provide a wealth of data for |
| such device in existence that could be placed right | | | | analysis. Live tracking is also now available through |
| underneath a vehicle to reliably and accurately | | | | the mobile phone, so monitoring a covert GPS |
| track its movements over a protracted period of | | | | tracker whilst on the move yourself is now not |
| time. GPS tracking technology was available, but | | | | an problem. |
| they hadn't advanced enough to enable them to | | | | From a Private Investigators point of view the |
| be placed out of 'line of sight' of the sky. At the | | | | latest specialised tracking systems are the 'Holy |
| same time GPS tracking devices were fairly | | | | Grail' of surveillance. Magnetic vehicle trackers |
| power hungry and battery technology had not | | | | take seconds to deploy. They then work away |
| advanced enough to provide for a long-term | | | | without need for constant monitoring to provide a |
| deployment. | | | | catalogue of valuable data from which the |
| How times have changed. in the last four years | | | | surveillance professional can decide his or her next |
| vehicle trackers have come a long way. The | | | | move. And when on a 'live' surveillance follow the |
| latest Sirf Star III GPS chipsets are sensitive | | | | vehicle tracker is there to get the investigator |
| enough to maintain a GPS fix even when placed | | | | back on track if the subject vehicle has been lost |
| completely under a vehicle. The power-saving | | | | from view. Magnetic GPS Trackers really are a |
| features of modern vehicle trackers including | | | | 'must have' surveillance essential to the modern |
| sophisticated movement sensors and advances in | | | | investigator. |