From time to time, our sales team gets phone calls from consumers asking about GPS tracking watches for their child, or elderly parent.

Here is why we don’t sell this type of device, yet.

Reason #1: Battery life. Batteries in watch sized devices are not designed to transmit gps/gsm data on a continuos basis. The small battery size, coupled with current battery technology, requires frequent re-charges. Sometimes, as often as every eight hours. Not very practical.

Reason #2: Quality. The majority of gps tracking watches we have seen, come from China. Besides questionable quality control issues, these devices do not have FCC certification, nor do they have PTCRB certification. PTCRB certification, is a requirement to use such a device on a carrier’s network, like ATT, T-Mobile, etc. In layman’s terms, this means, its not legitimate.

Sometime, in the future, we might find a product that meets our requirements.

Installing a vehicle tracking device is a fairly simple process when you have the proper information, and tools required to do the job.
Pre-Installation Checklist:

1.  Determine the year of the vehicle, make and model
2.  Locate your particular vehicle’s wiring diagram
3.  Have proper tools: Wire strippers, multi-meter, Phillips screwdriver, socket set, electrical tape, and soldering gun.
4.  Info Sheet

Determining the year, make and model of your vehicle is important.  It will allow you to find specific wiring diagrams online for you to use as a guide.

A simple search on Google for “vehicle wiring diagrams” should point you in the right direction for locating your particular vehicle’s wiring information. Read the rest of this entry »

Wow! TomTom Australia is planning on selling GPS data it collected about their customer’s routes to traffic enforcement agencies and private companies in Australia. TomTom rejected the privacy concerns, by saying something to the effect that although they were in fact collecting real-time gps data, the individual user’s information was removed from the data. The data was useful only when taken as a whole and not on an individual basis.

So, the logic goes like this: TomTom sells a customer a device, who uses it to navigate around town. In fact they sell thousands of devices, and collect mountains of information. They then take the customers information and SELL it to whoever they want?

Does anyone else have a problem with this?

TomTom, you should know the difference between what’s right and wrong, we all learned this along time ago. Selling out your customer base to increase your corporate profits – is definitely not the right thing to do…In fact, I am sure of it, your competitor’s like Garmin, who say they don’t operate in this manner – are jumping for joy!

This morning stopped off at the local gas station, and filled up. The total price: about $70.00 for 15.65 gallons of gas!

Are we over it yet?

A Video Capture Of Version One Of Our Iphone/Droid GPS tracking App. The Apps only work in conjunction with our Live Trac products: