Covert Vehicle Tracking As A Crime-Fighting System

Why would a civilian wish to engage in covert vehicle tracking? Isn't that reserved for military applications only?

In today's world of mass carjacking and other forms of car theft, civilians need to protect themselves and their possessions from criminal minds. And the common criminal logic is: what could be easier to steal than a car parked in the midst of hundreds of others in an isolated parking lot?

These type of occurrences are what made covert vehicle tracking so essentially useful nowadays especially to the average citizen. Covert vehicle tracking is the process of tracking and determining a certain vehicle's location via a vehicle tracking system in such a way that the driver of the vehicle is not made aware that he or she is being tracked.

An obvious real world application of such a concept is the pinpointing of the location of a stolen vehicle by law enforcers. Unlike before when vehicle tracking simply meant dangerous interstate car chases, vehicle tracking nowadays uses methods that are so inconspicuous the culprits won't even know they are already being followed until it is too late.

A good example of a covert vehicle tracking system is the LoJack Stolen Vehicle Recovery System. This particular system uses a small, indistinct transmitter that is often installed in a random location inside the vehicle. The transmitter in fact looks like a regular car component, unlikely to be detected as a transmitting device even in plain sight.

Several police jurisdictions are already using the LoJack as their primary form of vehicle tracking system. Upon receiving a report of a stolen vehicle, the transmitter for that particular vehicle is automatically activated, and an accurate location of the transmitter and, hopefully, the vehicle is provided to the police.

The LoJack uses radio frequency to send from the transmitter to the remote controller.