Ok, last one for now. There are many paid ones apparently. This one does everything you asked about plus a whole lot more.
KoolTrax™ Mobile helps turn a mobile phone into an affordable personal GPS tracker
You wanted an affordable GPS tracking device that still offered our amazing GPS-standard
4 metre accuracy and
real time tracking. We listened, we acted.
Now at very low cost you can download KoolTrax™ Mobile today and turn any Windows Mobile 5+
*, GPS enabled mobile phone PDA into a GPS tracking device, so you can track the exact location of your loved ones.
If you don't use Windows, sign up to hear about our
imminent releases on other platforms: Symbian (Nokia), iPhone, Blackberry, Java.
Does it work outside the UK and Ireland?
It works wherever your phone works, just get roaming enabled on your phone.
This is
NOT the same as the commonplace mobile tracking services offered that provide very poor accuracy and position on request. Follow these links to understand why you need
GPS accuracy and
real time tracking.
Here's our website developer trying both systems out. In this video the person being tracked uses a
KoolTrax™ Ranger, but besides that, everything else is the same for KoolTrax™ Mobile.
If you want to see what happened when he tried a competitor's service that relies on mobile phone signal triangulation, take a look at this:
You don't have to buy a dedicated
KoolTrax™ Ranger tracking device for your family or your staff, they just need a Windows Mobile 5+ mobile phone
* with GPS and KoolTrax™ Mobile software.
Download it now
Alert states
KoolTrax™ Mobile turns a Windows Mobile 5+
*, GPS enabled mobile phone into a fully functioning GPS tracking device with all the location and panic-button alert functionality of KoolTrax™ Ranger (but no no-movement alarm or low battery alarm).
Using an Internet connected Windows PC with our KoolTrax™ PC software (included) installed, you can set up one or more geographic boundaries by drawing an on screen map. Then when the person leaves (or enters) the area, you can set it to alert you either on-screen, by email or by mobile text message.
You can set more than one boundary for each user and switch between them as you wish. Have one for college, one for work, one for town, another for a friends house.
It's easy to set up a temporary boundary too, for instance around a club or venue, just for the night. When the tracking device leaves the boundary, you'll get an alert.
Alert methods
You can set up how alerts are delivered:
- Enter the people who are involved in the monitoring of the person
- Set up who receives notification of which type of alert
- Decide which method is used to deliver each alert: text message (additional credits required), email and/or on-screen alert
If your child, loved one, or employee uses KoolTrax™ Mobile, you can track their whereabouts in real-time with accuracy down to just 4 metres using a Windows PC and the Internet.
Take a
look at the prices, and download KoolTrax™ Mobile here.
*What if I don't have a Windows Mobile 5 phone?
In order to use
KoolTrax™ Mobile software to turn your mobile phone or PDA into a personal GPS tracker, your phone needs to be running Windows Mobile 5+ and have NMEA compliant GPS capability.
If you don't know whether your phone is running Windows Mobile 5+, there's a screenshot on
Wikipedia which shows you what it looks like.
KoolTrax™ Mobile also requires a device with GPS capability.
If your phone or PDA is incompatible but you want KoolTrax™ Mobile, here are some options.
If your phone or PDA isn't Windows Mobile 5+, then you might consider taking the opportunity to get a new phone. If you're doing that, aim for a phone that has inbuilt GPS such as the
Mio A701 available through
Amazon
.
Alternatively if your phone or PDA supports Java, a Java version of KoolTrax™ Mobile is under development, so you might prefer to wait for that. Sign up to receive notification when
KoolTrax™ Mobile Java is launched.
The most common phone operating system is Symbian. If you have a Nokia, Ericsson, Sony Ericsson, Panasonic, Siemens AG, Samsung or BenQ phone it's likely it's running Symbian rather than Windows Mobile 5. We are developing a Symbian version too. Sign up to receive notification when
KoolTrax™ Mobile Symbian is launched.
If you have a Windows Mobile 5+ phone that isn't GPS enabled, you can buy GPS devices that connect to your phone using BlueTooth, for instance those provided by
Garmin or the
Holux GPSlim236 Wireless Bluetooth GPS Receiver, again available through
Amazon.
In addition, to manage the service and display the position of one or more KoolTrax™ Mobile user, you will need an Internet connected Windows PC.
If you would like to track a child or someone with dementia who is likely to lose or abuse such a desirable phone, or if you need a 'not being worn', no movement or man-down type alarm, consider
KoolTrax™ Ranger.
KoolTrax™ Mobile makes GPS tracking accessible to all
You asked, we delivered. We know you want accurate, real-time GPS tracking at the best possible price. KoolTrax™ Mobile is the answer.
Download KoolTrax™ Mobile now