Perhaps you've heard about GPS or Global Positioning Systems. They have been in the news a lot lately and you can purchase everything from GPS Navigation systems in cars to hand held GPS devices. One item you may not have heard of is a Real Time GPS Auto Monitoring Device which have a variety of uses. The main use being to track and locate a vehicle in real time if it is ever stolen.

What Exactly is GPS or Global Positioning System

A GPS locating device is a compact unit that fits onto the bottom of an automobile or any mobile unit, such as a car, boat, bicycle, or even a person. From a third location, the satellite technology of the GPS can send signals to a GPS receiver, so that the location-position of the unit can be relayed. Three areas are involved, altitude, latitude, and longitude. The satellite technology is a constellation of 24 satellites that send information to the GPS receiver.

The GPS system originally was used as a military device by the U.S. Department of Defense, between 1974 and 1977, to track missiles and bombs that were delivered by our armed services forces. It wasn't until President Clinton was in office that use of the GPS was opened to civilians. Additional bandwidth and advances in technologies caused a surge in GPS applications and marketing.

Many vehicle features can be monitored and controlled from a Millennium Plus GPS Vehicle Tracking device that is placed securely underneath the vehicle. Satellites and patented microburst engineering allows you to communicate with the specified vehicle 24/7 through use of the computer internet. Also you can access reporting and alert functions by email, cell phone,or pager!

Millennium Plus operates using an innovative hybrid of technologies, including GPS satellites and patented GSM cell technology. Each time you communicate with the transceiver in the vehicle, there is a two way flow of information.

* When accessing Millennium Plus via the Internet using any standard browser, you send out a signal. That signal then travels to the cell phone tower nearest your current location.

*Microburst engineering uses cellular networks to transmit data and information. The system is able to hook up to unused channels or frequencies on the back side of standard cell lines.

* The GPS satellites then locate and communicate with the Millennium Plus transceiver on board your vehicle, which exchanges information on location and speed, as well as executing any commands you've sent.

* Cell tower engineering is again used to transmit the location back to your location.

What would prompt a person to buy a Millennium Plus GPS auto tracking system? There are many reasons. The possible applications could be so spread out in a Millennium Plus system that they would be helpful at work, at home or for leisure purposes.

• auto-mechanically inclined
  
• campers
  
• anti-car theft
  
• parents of teen drivers
  
• couriers
  
• municipal managers
  
• ATV'ers
  
• u-haul movers
  
• heavy machinists
  
• auxilliary fire people
  
• environmental engineers
  
• auto attendents
  
• DUI drivers
  
• delivery personnel
  
• law enforcement
  
• tow truck businesses
  
• RV'ers
  
• environmentally conscious people
  
• emergency managers
  
• vintage vehicle owners
  
• natural resource park attendents
  
  

Individual uses for GPS vehicle recovery anti theft system...anyone who wishes to ensure the safety and well being of drivers, vehicles, and their cargoes.

With 1.2 million vehicles stolen at a cost of about 8.2 billion, vehicle theft has become the country’s number one property crime as listed by the most recent FBI Uniform Crime Reports (ca 2001). Worse than this, you will only have a 62% in 2001, chance of getting your automobile back. This rate has dropped from an 84% change of getting it back in 1990. With police failure at regaining your assets, how will a person get their car back?

In Phoenix/Mesa, Arizona, for two years in a row, the rate of stolen vehicles reached the highest in the country. A police spokesperson there suggested this; "installing a tracking device in your vehicle to help recover it if it is stolen" is the best way to deter criminal behavior.

Insurance Discounts

The chief use of Millennium Plus ia an Anti-Theft device, although it has broad spectrum uses. One plus could be an anti-theft device discount on your insurance rates. It is now law in many states that insurance carriers have to offer this discount if the tracking device is used. Contact your individual insurance agent to see if your state is one of them that offer the discount

USNO NAVSTAR Global Positioning System Information