How do I track my belongings using GPS?

February 28, 2009 by admin · 3 Comments
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James Geddes asked:


I want to be able to track my bike, car, phone and laptop should they get stolen.

I don’t want to pay a monthly subscription.

How can I track these items using GPS?

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3 Responses to “How do I track my belongings using GPS?”
  1. inderdeepg says:
    March 3, 2009 at 12:44 am

    that link above is good for tracking your phone – its a joke one.

    the link above is really good for laptop tracking – especially for macs… and its a real software.

    as for your bike… i dont know.
    sorry.

  2. Andrew A says:
    March 4, 2009 at 12:57 pm

    A GPS only knows where it is, it doesn’t tell anything elsewhere it is.

    So if you want to track your phone, car, laptop and bike by GPS you would need to attach a GPS to your phone, a GPS to your car, a GPS to your laptop and a GPS to your bike.

    You would then need some way of getting that GPS receivers location back to you. Normally that sort of thing is done using the cell phone network but that requires a subscription.
    You could maybe use the internet, have the GPS system upload its current location and some history onto the internet whenever it sees a public wi-fi network. That would avoid the subscription requirement.

    So all you need is a GPS receiver, a wi-fi interface and some custom software. And enough batteries to keep the whole thing running for a reasonable amount of time.

    Of course once you add all of that hardware to something like a bike it’s far more likely that someone will steal it in the first place. But you did ask how rather than whether it was practical.

  3. Addison S says:
    March 4, 2009 at 5:50 pm

    You may visit this site for all GPS related issues:

    And its community:

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