patrick_g
Elite Member
gemini5362 said:I smell a niche for a buisness here.
You sell a gps tracking unit that fits on the tractor somewhere out of sight. Then you sell monitoring service. If the tractor moves more than a predetermined distance from the area it normally is stored then the monitoring service calls the owner to see if he has it on a trailer. If the owner is not the one monitoring it then the monitoring service calls the police and vectors them to the area where the tractor is. You could make a specially designed taillight with the gps tracking unit in it or something of that nature.
Pat you want to help me design it and put up some investment capital.
we could give a 15 per cent discount to TBNers
Note the cell phone jammer. Jamming GPS is even easier than jamming cell phones. The monitor may know the tractor's GPS is "LOST" but will have no clue where it is as the system you describe requires the device to tell the monitor where it is. That is why when I designed the anti-theft device for heavy equipment I had the units periodically send an I'm OK message. Disabling the unit prevents it from sending the I'm OK message and results in scrambling the security troops.
The GPS system would essentially be reduced to the same approach by GPS jamming. All yo know is that there is a problem. IF the tractor is loaded and moving out you have no clue in what direction.
Take for example the JSOW (Joint Stand Off Weapon) it uses GPS but can be jammed. Hence the inertial backup. I think LOJACK would be more cost effective than supplying an anti theft device with inertial navigation telemetry to notify you of the ground track of the purloined equipment.
LOJACK seems like a reasonable approach.
A small shaped charge under the seat wired to the ignition switch (where you leave your keys in the ignition to make it more likely the thief will be in the seat when the switch is turned)
would probably stop the average thief.
OK so you are too timid for that approach. How about a small squib in a dye pack ala the bank's booby trap?
Pat