Wednesday 20 June 2012

GPS Tracking- An Easier Way to Pin Point the Location

GPS Tracking
Now days the best way to track a mobile phone is through GPS technology. This helps in finding the exact position of the cell phone user with the help of Assisted Global positioning System. The GPS establish the network with its mobile towers on the location.

With the help of GPS tracking technology, the user can be easily track out. There are some other benefits also of using the same. But the negative part of this technology is that the price is generally high of these cell phones.  These are not affordable enough to be purchased by every person. Although it provides excellent features, still it is not a pocket friendly deal to everyone.

The technology itself involves a lot of cost as it requires land networks to empower and facilitate the GPS. For establishing the same huge investment is required. Once you get the GPS network in the phone, it is free of cost to use and can be used anytime and anywhere. To utilize the same, first of all, the entire person has to acquire the services from the telecom company so that he can activate the same on his mobile phone. Sometimes, you may require availing these services from a third party company and they will charge some amount of money for providing the same.

There are few draw backs also for using the GPS tracking. The foremost issue is related to the theft and privacy of the people. All these have been increased in due course of time. People may start misusing the devices that can even harm other people. No one would want anyone to find out their exact location especially when they are on a holiday or at any other important work where they need privacy.

In the coming near future, location based advertisements will be started and definitely no one would want to be spammed with upcoming offers all the time when they walk up around the streets or the shopping malls with family or friends for enjoyment. This can be annoying.

Apart from these drawbacks, there are some benefits as well for the usage of this technology. Especially for the parents as they can easily find out their children anytime. If someone gets lost in a particular location, the same can be used to find out his actual position. With the help of this various kidnappings also became unsuccessful. The GPS tracking can be successfully used while travelling to explore new places and to find out different destination points with the help of the cell phone. They also include travel and tour guides that help in providing location based tour guide information to the user.

For tracking the location of a particular cell phone, it must emit a roaming signal which can be easily detected by the nearest mobile tower with communication antenna. After getting the same, the GSM localization will help in strengthening the phone signal and finding the exact location of the mobile user.

 In urban areas and cities the location can be tracked close to 50 meters as the density of the mobile traffic is very high. However in rural areas the antennas are located far and can hamper the service.

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