GPS Tracking Device For Lost / Stolen Items
Anyone have any recommendations or experience for mini GPS tracking devices for lost / stolen items?
Take a look at this offering - size of a button, use BLE:
Here's the company website - TrackR.
Any experience? Any alternatives? Any thoughts?
Ultimately, a mini GPS tracker could be very interesting for security purposes.
I backed Tile when they were on SelfStarter.
I think I have five of them coming (they were cheap for early backers). Fairly similar to the TrackR, though it also has a strength meter which it says you can use to determine distance and direction of the object.
The issue I see is that BLE only has so much range. Past that, you're hoping that other people have the app running and your stuff will be found. It's not true GPS tracking. If I needed exact location of something at all times, I'd be looking at something different. But for lost and found, these seem interesting.
I suspect there will be a few uses. Bottom line. Who's tracking whom? Or What? Other than looking for MY 'bug' Would My phone know that I'm tracking -anything-? If not, how secure is it from a hack? That would allow anyone to fetch what's being tracked?
Then there is the X wife. Now X because she caught you using it on her car?
It's not GPS, but Trakdot is a GSM transponder designed to stick in your luggage, so you can confirm it made the right connecting flights with you. $90 to buy w/ 1 year service, <$13 per year afterward.
put one of those on the back of our roku remote so i can find it after my kids keep losing it...
TrackR has added a map showing their "coverage", which looks awesome on paper, and I admit they got me to click through, because coverage seems good:
But let's take a look at my town and the truth is revealed...
Well played, Trackr. Well played. I guess they can only make those red dots so small...
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