Find your Stolen Bike FOR the Cops

[Bert]

Hi Guys and Girls.
Thought that some of you might be interest in a technology update for motorbike gps tracking. a couple of freinds of mine have finished developing a online gps tracking service, and are bring out a smaller gps (about the size of a smoke packet) unit that would happily fit onto any motorcycle either wired into the bike battery or stand alone system. this will work just about anywhere in NZ.
They can be permant or removable.
buy once and move it from bike to bike.
they can also tell you how fast the vehile is moving (good for mums and Dads)

basically the system can be hit every 20 seconds or you can ping it when you want so you can find out where your bike has gone or if it has been stolen you can point the cops to within 3 houses

If you'd like any more info check out :

http://www.wheresmycar.co.nz/demo_track_2.php

they have a email address onsite.

Bert

[Sniper]

Neat, thanks bert mate. Any ideas on cost?

[Skunk]

They say on the site:

WHERESMYCAR - Prices.

Your first choice for interactive GPS vehicle and asset tracking

Units are available for both purchase and short term lease. There is a small monthly fee with wheresmycar.

All prices incl GST unless stated otherwise

Purchase Options
Per unit: $695.00
wheresmycar monthly account $12.50 (prepaid)
plus per unit call: .20c
plus fitting (please see your local auto electrician)

Lease Options
Popular for people that want short term protection for their car.
Refundable bond on return of undamaged unit: $695.00
Monthly lease fee: $100.00/month (Minimum 1 month)
wheresmycar monthly account: Included in monthly lease.
plus per unit call: .20c
plus fitting (please see your local auto electrician)

Self contained unit
Refundable bond on return of undamaged unit $895
Weekly lease fee: $50.00 (Minimum 1 week)

Fleet solutions
For 3 or more units, base unit priced at $595 + gst each
Ongoing costs: POA
Software: POA

[Bert]

that the current price but they might be comming down in price. and the same old story the more units out there the cheeper things get

[FlangMasterJ]

Great idea but unfortunately 5 months late........sniff.....snob.

[dhunt]

Very cool, I'm in the middle of making something very similar for my bike which costs about half that. So that's probably not too bad a price when you take all the labour costs and marketing into account.

[Biff]

Nice tool.
Any idea what bearer it uses to carry the geo-location info to a fixed network? GSM, GPRS?

[45.from.tdc]

Nice tool.
Any idea what bearer it uses to carry the geo-location info to a fixed network? GSM, GPRS?

I have one.
Theres two types, the real time tracking uses GPRS back to their servers or the other is for ocassional one off locations which uses GSM. For both systems you can look at their map on-line to see where the location is.
I get the real time tracking for $29.00 month The occasional one off location service is $10 + 50.c per location per month I think. I use the GPRS one so I can diary my trips.