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Tracking Device
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Tracking Device
From smart devices we purchase to devices being..
...installed on vehicles, these devices are making it increasing easy to track ones location. And while many people today are struggling to find ways to protect there privacy. The future is coming to deliver more sophisticated tracking devices that will be much harder to detect.
...installed on vehicles, these devices are making it increasing easy to track ones location. And while many people today are struggling to find ways to protect there privacy. The future is coming to deliver more sophisticated tracking devices that will be much harder to detect.
Possible Benefits
Business can use tracking system to monitor their inventory
Tracking systems can be use to locate someone missing people who may be lost, in need of medical assistance, or even kidnap.
it can also be used to track down dangerous fugitives.
it can also be used to track down dangerous fugitives.
By placing a tracking device on a item, someone can be easily locate the item if itbecomes lost or stolen.
Concerns & Fears
There are many ways to track someone‘s location and activities without them knowing.
This creates many possible scenarios that would put one’s privacy and safety at risk.
This creates many possible scenarios that would put one’s privacy and safety at risk.
Many people prefer to have control over which of their personal information or aspects of their lives are public or private.
With it being easy to track someone’s that’s getting harder to control. When someone‘’s location is tracked and monitored their activities, lifestyles, interests, habits, etc... is all being exposed
With it being easy to track someone’s that’s getting harder to control. When someone‘’s location is tracked and monitored their activities, lifestyles, interests, habits, etc... is all being exposed
"The devices create a permanent electronic record that can be compared, contrasted and coordinated to deduce all manner of private information about individuals,"
The deepest privacy threat from mobile phones—yet one that is often completely invisible—is the way that they announce your whereabouts all day (and all night) long through the signals they broadcast.
More than 200 apps and services offer would-be stalkers a variety of capabilities, from basic location tracking to harvesting texts and even secretly recording video
Types of Devices
If several Bluetooth-enabled receivers are strategically placed to cover a large area, they can track the positions of any discoverable device, recording and sending any data back to a single address. Each Bluetooth receiver acts like any regular Bluetooth device: It searches for every device within range.
Mobile phone tracking is a process for identifying the location of a mobile phone, whether stationary or moving. Localization may be effected by a number of technologies, such as using multilateration of radio signals between (several) cell towers of the network and the phone, or simply using GPS. To locate a mobile phone using multilateration of radio signals, it must emit at least the idle signal to contact the next nearby antenna tower, but the process does not require an active call. The Global System for Mobile Communications(GSM) is based on the phone's signal strength to nearby antenna masts.[1]
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A GPS tracking unit is a navigation device normally carried by a moving vehicle or person or animal that uses the Global Positioning System (GPS) to track the device's movements and determine its location. The recorded location data can either be stored within the tracking unit or transmitted to an Internet-connected device using the cellular (GPRS or SMS), radio, or satellite modem embedded in the unit. This allows the location to be displayed against a map backdrop either in real time or when analysing the track later, using GPS tracking software. Data tracking software is available for smartphones with GPS capability.[1]
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Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. An RFID tag consists of a tiny radio transponder; a radio receiver and transmitter. When triggered by an electromagnetic interrogation pulse from a nearby RFID reader device, the tag transmits digital data, usually an identifying inventory number, back to the reader.
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History
1993
1993
- The Global Positioning System ( GPS ) becomes fully functional.
1973
1973
- Michael T. Goss develops An ankle transmitter to track offenders who are on probation.
1995
1995
- William Reagan receives U.S. patent for his Vehicle Location System named “LoJack”.
Wabot Robot
Waseda University initiated the WABOT project in 1967, and in 1972 completed the WABOT-1, the world's first full-scale humanoid intelligent robot. It was the first android, able to walk, communicate with a person in Japanese (with an artificial mouth), measure distances and directions to the objects using external receptors (artificial ears and eyes), and grip and transport objects with hands.
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