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Car GPS tracker

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brucine Posted messages 24741 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -

Hello,

For 2 days I’ve been looking at GPS trackers to place one on my car. I’ve looked on the net and Amazon to avoid naming them. Probably good products, and many not-so-good ones.

Not very knowledgeable, I’m turning to your experiences.

I would like it to be obviously effective and of decent quality, of course. If possible, not only geolocate the car at the precise moment (T) but also its route (a bit like running). No subscription, no SIM card. I’m on Samsung Android.

And you’ll easily guess, without breaking the bank.

Thanks in advance to the contributors.

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    contrariness Posted messages 17903 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   6 243
     

    We can do without GPS satellites by using inertial navigation, but it's still less precise. For very high precision, we combine the two principles.
    But it won't transmit the position.
    For that, a communication system is needed, hence the SIM card.

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    1. brucine Posted messages 24741 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 154
       

      Hello,

      Autonomous GPS devices are by definition capable of determining the car's position.

      This is also the case for the apps of a number of recent vehicles even without an integrated GPS in the tablet, whose mechanism and degree of precision I do not know and which are often paid after a certain number of years.

      In the first case, the thing works in a closed loop (except once at home to retrieve the route on a PC) but the second does not use a SIM card specific to the app and I do not know what the transmission method to the phone is, except of course that the car must be modern enough to allow this collection: assuming, imaginary, that it stays permanently in a Wifi zone connected to a "hotspot", we would formally not need a SIM card on the phone.

      But that was just to remark, where a GPS tracker with subscription would in principle work via mobile data, if it is off it does it via voice data (SMS) and thus necessarily with a SIM card and, to the extent that this request is intermittent, with lower precision.

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