Crime-Fighting System using Vehicle Tracking

A civilian wouldn’t normally engage in covert vehicle tracking. This was actually reserved for military applications in the past. Today, though, civilians need to protect themselves and their possessions from criminal minds. Mass carjacking and car theft have been going on, and it has become common for criminals to steal a car parked among hundreds of other cars in various parking lots.

These type of occurrences are what made covert vehicle tracking so essentially useful nowadays especially to the average citizen. Covert vehicle tracking is the process of tracking and determining a certain vehicle’s location via a vehicle tracking system in such a way that the driver of the vehicle is not made aware that he or she is being tracked. An obvious real world application of such a concept is the pinpointing of the location of a stolen vehicle by law enforcers. Unlike before when vehicle tracking simply meant dangerous interstate car chases, vehicle tracking nowadays uses methods that are so inconspicuous the culprits won’t even know they are already being followed until it is too late.

The Lo Jack Stolen Vehicle Recovery system is a good example of a covert vehicle tracking system. It makes use of a small, inconspicuous transmitter which is installed on a random location within the vehicle. The transmitter even when installed in plain sight will not indicate anything since it looks like a regular car component.

Many police departments and jurisdictions already make use of the LoJack as their way of tracking vehicles, especially stolen ones. As soon as a vehicle is reported stolen, all they have to do is activate the transmitter for that vehicle and the location of the vehicle is given to them for them to be able to recover it. Radio frequency is being used by the LoJack vehicle tracker so that locations can be sent from the transmitter to the remote controller.