Stolen Boat – You want to find it ??

[andy_wilson]

YES BUT!!!

"You cannot locate phones without the consent of the user at any time."

These systems ONLY work on confirmation from the hidden secret handset, that it allows itself to be tracked.

What 8l00dy use is that?

 

[David52]

Well if this is spam thread can I also level the playing field for those thinking "not a bad idea" may I also recommend browsing some alternative providers:

www.followus.co.uk
Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) tracking service

www.mapamobile.com
29.99 connection charge with top up PAYG service after

www.verilocation.com/
Easy to set up, low cost and all web based. Track any mobile in the UK. from 20p per track + account fees from 1p per day. These guys also do a number of GPS tracking units.

www.mobilelocate.co.uk
Track your company or own mobile phones anywhere in the UK from as low as £1.47 per mobile per month - or as little as 16p

www.trackershack.co.uk
Provide a number of GPS and mobile based tracking solutions

There are plenty more - and as you can see not all require a subscrition comitment -

You could always find a Marina with a lock gate and get to know the staff!!

 

[Neddie_Seagoon]

Re: YES BUT!!!

You set up the phone to track on the phone location service website, including confirming it, and then go and hide it in the boat, it's very simple. I have several phones tracked via www.fleetonline.net - it's not a perfect service but it generally works OK (not currently working for T-Mobile). You log on to their website, and get the approximate position of your phone. I have never had to reconfirm permission to track, and some of my phones have been on the system for over 2 years. I have not tried it on a boat.

Problem is that it only gives a location back when you ask it to, so you need to know that your boat has been nicked - by which time it might be out of reception, or you can with some services set up a regular polling of the phone - once per hour / day etc. As each location request costs c. 25 pence this can soon build up to a respectable cost.

The best type of asset trackers monitor their own GPS position and proactively send you an alarm when they move outside of a specified area, either a radius from a fixed point or a "watch box" defined by a polygon. These systems are not cheap. but worth it for an expensive asset. I think the web-based versions are available for c £1 per day upwards. As they are GPS based rather than trying to radiolocate a mobile phone they are much more accurate, but they still send the data back to you via SMS/GPRS so as soon as they're out of range of the mobile phone network they become useless; your 25 knot capable MOBO could be out of signalling range before you've had a chance to respond to the alert message telling you it was nicked /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif Ultimately one would hope that the boat would reappear within mobile network range either here or abroad, so it would eventually reappear on the map!

A colleague had an Audi TT with a premium 'Tracker' fitted. Thieves nicked it while she was on vacation and we never recovered it. By the time she returned from holiday and alerted Tracker that her wheels had gone the vehicle was inbvisible to Tracker, either the concealed Tracker had been disabled or the vehicle had been shipped abroad.

Steve

 

[Neddie_Seagoon]

Re: YES BUT!!!

re FleetOnline, I have just checked and they have fixed their T-Mobile problem as of yesterday,

 

[Superflid]

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Nah /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif how would they geddit off your sandbank Ken?

cheers Joe

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Nobody told me they let the water out....... /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Tisme]

Re: Was it or wasn\'t it.

Well, was it spam?

It reads like spam and looks like spam. But the self deprecating comments about not necessarily being the best or the cheapest was a clever move.

I reckon it was.....but better than average. I would award it 8 out 10. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif