February 2, 2007
Tracking Your Car by Cell and E-Mail
Inilex Inc. uses global-positioning satellites to track the location of customers' cars and deliver a host of other information. PhysOrg reports.
The "Kepler Advantage" device, sold through car dealers for $600 to $1,100 plus a monthly subscription, looks like a walkie-talkie and gets stowed covertly under the dashboard.
Then car owners or corporate fleet managers can go on an Inilex Web site to track their vehicles' locations - and set up alerts that would be delivered by e-mail or a cell-phone text message.
With this service, you can be notified within minutes that your parked car has been moved, presumably by a thief, and shown where it is in real time - fruitful information to pass on to police.
Or you can set up a "virtual fence" on a map and be told if the car ranges outside it. Paranoid parents could halt their kids' late-night joyriding by letting Inilex warn them when the car exceeds a certain speed."
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