Jul 10 2005
Sazo GPS tracker for nervous parents
Via Engadget: Sazo GPS tracker for nervous parents:
There’s apparently no end to the steady stream of devices that use some combination of GPS, RFID and cellphones to help nervous parents track their children. The latest, now on sale in the U.K., is the Sazo, a £100 GPS unit that sends location updates to its distributor’s server via GPRS.
Parents can retrieve data via a browser or get updates by SMS. There’s also a panic button that automatically sends a text message to parents, and a deluxe version includes a full-fledged cellphone. Sounds great. Until the kid loses it. Or spends too much time indoors, and falls off the satellite’s signal. Or the server gets hacked, letting anyone get in and retrieve the location data. While parents might like the idea of a GPS tracker, in the end, they may find that just giving the kid a cellphone (even a simplified one like the Firefly) is a heckuva lot simpler.
Is there any way that I can be traced using a GPS reciver thorugh internet, like if am outside and my GPS is working is there any application by which anybody can trace me sitting on computer?
GPS units only receive radio signals, so you’re OK there. The mobile phone carriers can, of course, tell where your phone is. Also software on your PC connected to a GPS device could compromise you depending on what is in the software.
Hey, this SAZO GPS unit is very secure their servers are kept in a location where the MOD keep their stuff plus other big companies.
Incase the Kids do stay in to long and it loses the GPS signal it has a back up to locate as a cell location, I know cell ocation is not very accurate 50+ meters but its better than nothing. (I checked all this out before I purchased it for my Kids)