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1.	How GPS works>History of GPS  Throughout the 1960s the U.S. Navy and Air Force worked on a number of systems that would provide navigation capability for a variety of applications. Many of these systems were incompatible with one another. In 1973 the Department of Defense directed the services to unify their systems. The basis for the new system would be atomic clocks carried on satellites, a concept successfully tested in an earlier Navy program called TIMATION. The Air Force would operate the new system, which it called the Navstar Global Positioning System. It has since come to be known simply as GPS. The new system ca ...  [ Read the GPS Article: History of GPS ]
2.	How GPS works>How Does GPS Work?  Global Positioning System satellites transmit signals to equipment on the ground. GPS receivers passively receive satellite signals; they do not transmit. GPS receivers require an unobstructed view of the sky, so they are used only outdoors and they often do not perform well within forested areas or near tall buildings. GPS operations depend on a very accurate time reference, which is provided by atomic clocks at the U.S. Naval Observatory. Each GPS satellite has atomic clocks on board. Each GPS satellite transmits data that indicates its location and the current time. All GPS satellites synch ...  [ Read the GPS Article: How Does GPS Work? ]
3.	GPS Devices>Where am I ?  "Where am I?" The first and most obvious application of GPS is the simple determination of a "position" or location. GPS is the first positioning system to offer highly precise location data for any point on the planet, in any weather. That alone would be enough to qualify it as a major utility, but the accuracy of GPS and the creativity of its users is pushing it into some surprising realms. Knowing the precise location of something, or someone, is especially critical when the consequences of inaccurate data are measured in human terms. For example, when a stranded motorist was lost in a Sou ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Where am I ? ]
4.	>GPS Timing  Although GPS is well-known for navigation, tracking, and mapping, it's also used to disseminate precise time, time intervals, and frequency. Time is a powerful commodity, and exact time is more powerful still. Knowing that a group of timed events is perfectly synchronized is often very important. GPS makes the job of "synchronizing our watches" easy and reliable. There are three fundamental ways we use time. As a universal marker, time tells us when things happened or when they will. As a way to synchronize people, events, even other types of signals, time helps keep the world on schedule. An ...  [ Read the GPS Article: GPS Timing ]
5.	How GPS works>How does the Global Positioning System (GPS) work  The Global Positioning System satellites transmit signals to equipment on the ground. GPS receivers passively receive satellite signals; they do not transmit. GPS receivers require an unobstructed view of the sky, so they are used only outdoors and they often do not perform well within forested areas or near tall buildings. GPS operations depend on a very accurate time reference, which is provided by atomic clocks on board. Each GPS satellite transmits data that indicates its location and the current time. All GPS satellites synchronize operations so that these repeating signals are transmitte ...  [ Read the GPS Article: How does the Global Positioning System (GPS) work ]
6.	Electronic Monitoring Programs>Electronic Monitoring  Introduction In the criminal justice system, with the overcrowded jails, alternative sanctions have become imperative. The City and County of Denver, under the Manager of Safety, have helped to address this need with its unique and innovative Electronic Monitoring Program. The cost-effectiveness of electronic monitoring, with its administration being self-sustaining and fully accountable to the City, has resulted in enormous savings for the City. The intense supervision, with an emphasis on treatment and employment, has been balanced with the recognition that each person and each case is indiv ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Electronic Monitoring ]
7.	GPS Offender Tracking>BI ExacuTrack™  Approximately seven out of ten offenders are not behind bars, but reside within our neighborhoods. To maintain public safety, criminal justice professionals require efficient and reliable ways to monitor and track offenders released into the community. BI ExacuTrack™ enhances BI Incorporated's industry-leading radio frequency monitoring system with GPS tracking and sophisticated online case management to provide reliable, efficient, and comprehensive offender monitoring. In addition to detecting the absence or presence of an offender at home, passive GPS tracking records the offender’s locatio ...  [ Read the GPS Article: BI ExacuTrack™ ]
8.	Electronic Monitoring Programs>ELECTRONIC MONITORING  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The concept of electronically monitoring offenders in the community was conceived by an American psychologist, Dr. Robert Schweitzgebel in the 1960s, but it took almost twenty years to become a reality in corrections. Electronic monitoring programs have been introduced in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and many other nations world-wide in an effort to reduce prison populations. Currently, electronic monitoring programs use either continuously signaling or programmed contact devices. Continuously signaling devices have three essential components: a transmitter, ...  [ Read the GPS Article: ELECTRONIC MONITORING ]
9.	GPS Offender Tracking>GPS: Keeping Cons Out of Jail  An electronic tracking system that follows suspects and criminals around their neighborhoods and compares the information to current crimes has received, of all things, the stamp of approval from the American Civil Liberties Union. The Global Positioning System's satellites track probationers and parolees and compare their whereabouts to the location of crimes committed in their vicinity. While local governments across the country are using GPS to track offenders, the additional crime cross-referencing tool is unique to the VeriTracks system, which is manufactured by the Arlington, Virginia, ...  [ Read the GPS Article: GPS: Keeping Cons Out of Jail ]
10.	How GPS works>HOW GPS WORKS:  HOW GPS WORKS: AN INTRODUCTION by Craig Haggart (haggart@slac.stanford.edu) Amazingly precise satellite navigation receivers are now widely available and reasonably priced, thanks to the Global Positioning System (GPS). How do these little wonders figure out exactly where you are? The basic principle behind GPS is simple, and it's one that you may have used if you have done any coastal navigation: if you know where a landmark is located, and you know how far you are from it, you can plot a line of position. (In reality, it's a circle or sphere of position, but it can be treated as a line if ...  [ Read the GPS Article: HOW GPS WORKS: ]
11.	Work Release Programs>Working with Offenders  This paper reviews developments in electronic monitoring technologies, including passive and active systems and Global Positioning Systems; describing their different applications in Australia and the relevant legislative framework. Advantages and disadvantages control are analysed, whilst considering ethical, legal and practical issues. Title: Electronic Monitoring In the Criminal Justice System Series: Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice No. 254 (Australian Institute of Criminology) Number of pages: 6 Date published: May 2003 Criminal justice authorities may need to control the l ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Working with Offenders ]
12.	Electronic Monitoring Programs>Officials seek a GPS eye on offenders  In slain girl's name, officials seek a GPS eye on offenders By JONI JAMES Published February 19, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TALLAHASSEE - Evoking the slaying of 11-year-old Carlie Brucia, Florida law enforcement officials descended on the state Capitol Wednesday to urge key lawmakers to invest $35-million next year to keep minute-by-minute track of thousands of paroled criminals. Pitched as the next technological revolution in crime-fighting and already up and running in four Florida counties including Pinellas and Citrus, the VeriTra ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Officials seek a GPS eye on offenders ]
13.	GPS Offender Tracking>GPS tracing can keep track of released sex offenders but it is not without limits  While lawmakers point to global positioning system (GPS) technology as a tool in keeping track of released sex offenders, GPS tracking isn’t without limitations. “It’s not as good as I’d like to have,” said Sen. Leo Foley, DFL-Coon Rapids, Senate crime prevention and public safety committee chair. Indeed, while system coverage in the metro is good, coverage diminishes in Greater Minnesota, Gary Shelton, of Midwest Monitoring/Surveillance, told the Senate committee on Wednesday (Feb. 18). Factors such as building structure can influence whether global position satellites can get a read. “I’d be ...  [ Read the GPS Article: GPS tracing can keep track of released sex offenders but it is not without limits ]
14.	Youth Tracking>Parents Use Cell Phones to Track Kids  Parents wanting to keep track of their teenagers can now use a cell phone with a GPS tracking device to monitor their child's movements. A company called "Teen Arrive Alive" is marketing the Nextel phone to parents. A tracking device on the phone alerts parents to where the teen is and even how fast the teen is driving. Jack Church, Vice-President of Marketing for "Teen Arrive Alive," calls the phone a tool for parents to keep closer watch on their children. Church became involved with the company after losing his own son in a drunk driving accident. His body was not found for two days. Par ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Parents Use Cell Phones to Track Kids ]
15.	VIP protection>GPS Guides Supply Parachutes to Iraq Combat Zone  U.S. Marines used GPS-guided parachutes to carry supplies to soldiers in an Iraq combat zone for the first time on August 9. Programmed with the drop zone's coordinates and maneuvered by motor-tugged lines, the Sherpa Autonomous Parafoil Delivery System units steered themselves from nearly two miles high to within less than 200 meters of their target. A week prior to the Sherpa's debut, a KC-130 had dropped a load of rations for Marines at Korean Village. Even from the aircraft's altitude of 800 feet, the cargo landed 300 meters from its target, according to Army Capt. Art Pack, combat develop ...  [ Read the GPS Article: GPS Guides Supply Parachutes to Iraq Combat Zone ]
16.	>Record-Setting Performance  GPS technology providers Trimble, Garmin, CSI Wireless, and NovAtel all rewrote their record books with best-ever financial performances in second fiscal quarters of 2004. Trimble of Sunnyvale, California, recorded second quarter (Q2) revenues of $179.5 million, a 30 percent increase over 2003. Q2 net income rose 140 percent, to $19.5 million. Trimble's construction machine control and agricultural guidance solutions recorded strong sales and margins, as did new product launches such as the TrimTrac locator. Garmin Ltd., based in the Cayman Islands, posted a 32-percent jump in revenue in its ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Record-Setting Performance ]
17.	>JAMFEST II  Department of Defense (DoD) organizations and contractors, and civil agencies, are preparing to jam November 1-5 at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico's Tularosa Basin. The groups plan to hold the 2nd GPS JAMFEST at the 3,200-square-mile range to test real-life signal jamming scenarios and the effectiveness of advanced anti-jamming technologies. Conducted by the 746th Test Squadron, the inaugural event took place at the White Sands Missile Range May 24-28, 2004, and drew 12 multiservice DoD organizations and several civilian contractors and agencies. Paul Benshoof, director of the GPS ...  [ Read the GPS Article: JAMFEST II ]
18.	VIP protection>Done Deal  The United States and the European Community have signed a ground-breaking agreement on the promotion, provision, and use of the GPS and Galileo global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). Signed June 26 by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Loyola de Palacio, the European Commission's Vice-President with particular responsibility for transportation and energy matters, the agreement follows years of bilateral talks on cooperation and interoperability of GPS and the system being developed by the European Commission and the European Space Agency. Powell characterized the agreement as "a r ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Done Deal ]
19.	GPS Offender Tracking>Perry proposes GPS tracking for sex offenders  Sex offenders would be required to wear satellite-tracking devices as a condition of parole under a proposed law, a Republican lawmaker said Thursday. Sen. Gary Perry of Manhattan wants to use global positioning system, or GPS, technology to follow the movements of sex offenders, letting law enforcement keep a closer eye on them than ever before. "This program creates a whole new avenue of control of criminals and of protection for our communities," he said. "And keeping our families safe is our highest priority." Perry has drafted a bill to implement the plan, and it will be taken up by the L ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Perry proposes GPS tracking for sex offenders ]
20.	GPS Offender Tracking>GPS will track sex offenders  BOSTON -- Some of the state's most dangerous sex offenders will be required to wear ankle bracelets under a satellite tracking system that will allow law enforcement to monitor their whereabouts 24 hours a day. Gov. Mitt Romney yesterday approved $1 million to use Global Positioning System technology to track Level 3 sex offenders during the terms of their parole or probation. Gov. Romney said public safety concerns outweigh their right to privacy. "We are working hard together to make sure that if you're a dangerous sex predator, Massachusetts is your worst nightmare," Gov. Romney said. A ...  [ Read the GPS Article: GPS will track sex offenders ]
21.	GPS Offender Tracking>GPS tracing can keep track of released sex offenders but it is not without limits  While lawmakers point to global positioning system (GPS) technology as a tool in keeping track of released sex offenders, GPS tracking isn’t without limitations. “It’s not as good as I’d like to have,” said Sen. Leo Foley, DFL-Coon Rapids, Senate crime prevention and public safety committee chair. Indeed, while system coverage in the metro is good, coverage diminishes in Greater Minnesota, Gary Shelton, of Midwest Monitoring/Surveillance, told the Senate committee on Wednesday (Feb. 18). Factors such as building structure can influence whether global position satellites can get a read. “I’d be ...  [ Read the GPS Article: GPS tracing can keep track of released sex offenders but it is not without limits ]
22.	GPS Offender Tracking>Sex offenders need tracking  To combat the problem of repeat sex offenders, Office of Public Safety Secretary Edward Flynn has proposed using Global Positioning Satellite devices in Massachusetts to monitor convicted sex offenders after they are released from prison. GPS devices will help law enforcement workers eliminate wrong suspects and find criminals more efficiently. If used judiciously, this proposed policy will not rush in an era of Big Brother, as some critics fear, but will instead be a useful, lifesaving tool for Massachusetts law enforcement. A convicted sex offender may get released from jail, but this does n ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Sex offenders need tracking ]
23.	GPS Offender Tracking>Satellite to track released sex offenders  Around the first of the year, some 600 violent sex offenders who have been released from Tennessee prisons will be wearing ankle bracelets that will allow authorities using satellite technology to track their every move. Although some cities and counties in other states are already using the Global Positioning System to keep track of released felons, Tennessee apparently will be breaking new ground with a state program. ''You all are the first in the nation to do this,'' said Mandy Wettstein of General Dynamics, one of the potential bidders on the project. ''The country will be watching to see ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Satellite to track released sex offenders ]
24.	GPS Offender Tracking>ROMNEY HAILS NEW SEX OFFENDER TRACKING TOOLROMNEY HAILS NEW SEX OFFENDER TRACKING TOOL  Continuing his efforts to keep families and their children safe from the Commonwealth’s most dangerous sex offenders, Governor Mitt Romney today welcomed the use of a new tracking tool designed to keep a watchful eye on sex offenders who are on probation or parole. “We are sending a clear message to the people of the Commonwealth: We are committed to protecting communities from dangerous sexual predators,” said Romney. “While these high-risk offenders are under state supervision, we will have the capability to closely monitor their every move.” The new $1 million initiative signed into law b ...  [ Read the GPS Article: ROMNEY HAILS NEW SEX OFFENDER TRACKING TOOLROMNEY HAILS NEW SEX OFFENDER TRACKING TOOL ]
25.	How GPS works>What is GPS?  The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a worldwide radio-navigation system formed from a constellation of 24 satellites and their ground stations. GPS uses these "man-made stars" as reference points to calculate positions accurate to a matter of meters. In fact, with advanced forms of GPS you can make measurements to better than a centimeter! In a sense it's like giving every square meter on the planet a unique address. GPS receivers have been miniaturized to just a few integrated circuits and so are becoming very economical. And that makes the technology accessible to virtually everyone. ...  [ Read the GPS Article: What is GPS? ]
26.	How GPS works>Global Positioning System Overview  These materials were developed by Peter H. Dana, Department of Geography, University of Texas at Austin, 1994. These materials may be used for study, research, and education in not-for-profit applications. If you link to or cite these materials, please credit the author, Peter H. Dana, The Geographer's Craft Project, Department of Geography, The University of Colorado at Boulder. These materials may not be copied to or issued from another Web server without the author's express permission. Copyright © 1999 Peter H. Dana. All commercial rights are reserved. If you have comments or suggest ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Global Positioning System Overview ]
27.	Youth Tracking>teen tracking  Locate your teen and car fast... The G-Trac Locator (Tracking Beacon) is one of the most innovative GPS tracking devices on the market today. This one-of-a-kind location device is concealed in a standard silver casing (left). This tracking device can be concealed in practically anything, from a car to a boat, to anything that requires concealment. This device was designed for constant, reliable operation and high-life. This device can be connected to the power supply on a vehicle or boat to prevent drain on the units internal battery. This tracking device is not able to be found unless a stand ...  [ Read the GPS Article: teen tracking ]
28.	Youth Tracking>Tracking Your Children With GPS: Do You Have The Right?  Modern technology means we can track our children, but do we have the right to know where they are, and do they have the right to keep their location from us? Parents may not be able to keep their children in sight at all times, but GPS technology allows them to track their location almost anywhere. Many emerging products focus on children. With either existing GPS technology or that which one day may find its way onto the retail shelves, parents will be able to keep track of teenagers' use of cars, to know how fast the teens have been driving, or to find them when they do not return from a d ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Tracking Your Children With GPS: Do You Have The Right? ]
29.	Criminal Justice System>GPS used to track pedophiles  BRITAIN has launched a pilot project using satellites to track child sex offenders and other criminals, triggering alarms if they approach schools or other places barred to them. In the "prison without bars" project, some 120 offenders in Manchester and several other cities will wear tags allowing the police to monitor their location using the global positioning system (GPS). The offenders to be tagged in the 12-month project include paedophiles, spouse beaters and juvenile delinquents who will be monitored following their release from jail or as part of a community sentence, officials said. ...  [ Read the GPS Article: GPS used to track pedophiles ]
30.	>Lawmakers earn praise  On Sept. 17, I attended a press conference where Rep. David Nangle and Sen. Steven Panagiotakos announced that one million dollars had been set aside in the supplemental budget for the GPS tracking of Level 3 sex offenders. As a parent who has been very involved in this issue, I see this as another win for the children of Massachusetts, and I applaud Rep. David Nangle and Sen. Steven Panagiotakos for listening to the needs of their constituents, and the commonwealth. Due to their combined efforts, this bill was not only created, but was walked through the many legislative processes by them to ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Lawmakers earn praise ]
31.	GPS Offender Tracking>STaR  STaR Satellite Tracking and Reporting System A new level of monitoring Elmo-Tech's new STaR system takes monitoring outdoors, enabling program operators to apply tight surveillance programs in cases that require it. 24/7 location reports Exact path surveillance Restricted "hot", off-limits zones alerts Scheduled zones management The STaR System Operation Principles Elmo-Tech's STaR system is based on highly advanced global positioning satellite (GPS) system components, and Elmo-Tech's field-proven RF monitoring technology. Offenders wear a body-secured transmitter and are assigned person ...  [ Read the GPS Article: STaR ]
32.	GPS Offender Tracking>Real-Time Tracking of Parolees Taking Off  Law-enforcement agencies are learning the value of using GPS to keep a constant eye on some released prisoners. Violent sex offenders in Tennessee will receive a shiny new piece of jewelry from the state government when they're paroled from prison next year: a GPS ankle bracelet that tracks their whereabouts around the clock. About 600 ex-cons (half of the number of rapists scheduled to be released in the state) will get clamped with the tracking devices as part of a pilot program. Portable Tracking Devices (or PTDs) have long been used by law enforcement to keep tabs on parolees and house-ar ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Real-Time Tracking of Parolees Taking Off ]
33.	Criminal Justice System>Peterson Judge Allows GPS Tracking Evidence  After nearly two days of testimony from experts on global positioning system technology, Judge Alfred A. Delucchi said he believed the devices were reliable - despite a defense lawyer's objections they were error prone. Because GPS technology has yet to be tested in state criminal court, prosecutors had to establish both its reliability and demonstrate that the technology was used correctly. Delucchi decided Tuesday they had met those legal tests, calling the technology "generally accepted and fundamentally valid." Legal observers believe it is the first time a California judge has admitted ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Peterson Judge Allows GPS Tracking Evidence ]
34.	GPS Offender Tracking>Technology Tackles Troublemakers as the War on Crime Heats Up  He has been on the run for over a year. Hiding in caves, mountaintops, and countrysides, Osama Bin Laden is America's most wanted. As U.S. military forces vigilantly track and monitor his every move to try to capture him and his henchmen, arguably the most effective weapon in their arsenal is global positioning systems, more commonly known as GPS. These devices, equipped with a transmitter and receiver, work in tandem with aerial satellites to determine the pinpoint location of Al Qaeda forces in the war on terrorism. GPS military products have been very successful over the last year in helpin ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Technology Tackles Troublemakers as the War on Crime Heats Up ]
35.	Electronic Monitoring Programs>DIGITAL DETECTIVE  A group of global satellites will soon be tracking Georgia's most violent parolees and sex offenders. Ten Georgia counties, including Bibb, Houston and Toombs, have been selected to participate in a $500,000 state program that will monitor 180 parolees using the Global Positioning System. According to manufacturer Trimble Navigation Limited's Web site, GPS is a worldwide radio-navigation system that uses a constellation of 24 satellites to track people, animals and vehicles. The system uses the satellites as reference points to calculate positions accurate to a matter of yards. "It's like havi ...  [ Read the GPS Article: DIGITAL DETECTIVE ]
36.	GPS Devices>GPS increases productivity, efficiency for Butler Co. Highway Department  Concerned about equipment theft and employee productivity, Butler County Highway Superintendent Bill Taylor is using a global positioning system to track the department's vehicles. Taylor uses a laptop computer in his pickup to check the location of 25 vehicles that have the GPS equipment purchased by the Butler County Commission about six months ago. "With nearly $5 million in heavy equipment, county officials saw a need to secure the taxpayers' capital investments," said Taylor, who has 18 years experience in the highway department, including the past four as superintendent. The system ident ...  [ Read the GPS Article: GPS increases productivity, efficiency for Butler Co. Highway Department ]
37.	Electronic Monitoring Programs>High-tech devices can spy on kids 24/7, but what about trust?  Wondering what Web sites your teen visits when you're not looking or whether he's really at the party he says he is attending? Technology is here to help. Today's safety concerns have parents turning to the latest devices - everything from Web cams to software to spyware - to keep tabs on their children. advertisement Parents can text-message or call their child on a cell phone, buy software that traces what chat rooms their children visit, use global positioning satellite devices that track where junior is going in dad's car. They can even use new fetal imaging devices to peek in on a child ...  [ Read the GPS Article: High-tech devices can spy on kids 24/7, but what about trust? ]
38.	>Connecting the Dots  Imagine this scenario. A woman has been raped and murdered in her apartment sometime in the last six hours. You arrive at the scene as the lead investigator. But instead of inspecting the crime scene, interviewing witnesses, and canvassing suspects, you log in to your department’s intranet and retrieve a 3D model of the building that clearly identifies each dwelling. Then you zoom in on the victim’s apartment, calling up a detailed floor plan. A few keystrokes later, you cross-reference her apartment with a database of probationers and parolees whose movements have been tracked over the last d ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Connecting the Dots ]
39.	GPS Offender Tracking>GPS tracking for child sex offenders to be trialed  The department wanted to test whether the Israeli technology could be programmed to set off an alarm when offenders entered "exclusion zones", department probation and offenders service general manager Katrina Casey said. "It would be for very high risk child sex offenders whose offending patterns tend to suggest they go out looking for places where young children congregate," she said. There were limits to using GPS for tracking people as signals were often hampered by big buildings and natural typography. "New Zealand has an interesting typography and GPS works off satellite and it isn't ...  [ Read the GPS Article: GPS tracking for child sex offenders to be trialed ]
40.	GPS Offender Tracking>GPS lets law’s long arm grow  He follows his people everywhere, recording each step they take, timing how long they linger in places they’re not supposed to be. “We’re tracking you every single minute. Big Brother is watching you,” said Bendon, who works for ComCor Inc., a nonprofit group that offers programs to rehabilitate criminals. ComCor recently introduced technology that allows it to peer via satellite into a criminal’s life. Authorities looking to deal with jail overcrowding hope the Global Positioning System satellite technology — considered more sophisticated than traditional radio frequency monitoring — will ...  [ Read the GPS Article: GPS lets law’s long arm grow ]
41.	GPS Devices>Alternatives to satellite vehicle tracking  As wireless technology improves, it's possible to monitor vehicle movements more accurately than before. Fleet tracking technology is also becoming less expensive, bringing it within the reach of smaller operations. Traditionally, using Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites to pinpoint vehicles was the preserve of large fleet operators, such as trucking companies and railways, says Frank Viquez, director of automotive research at ABI Research in Oyster Bay, N.Y. That market is nearly saturated today, Viquez says, so fleet management providers are pursuing smaller customers. To do so, t ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Alternatives to satellite vehicle tracking ]
42.	Youth Tracking>Gen. Tommy Franks now spokesman for teen safety company  Retired Gen. Tommy Franks has signed on to be the spokesman for a company that uses global positioning system technology in teens' cell phones to let parents know how fast they're driving. Franks, who as commander of U.S. Central Command based at nearby MacDill Air Force directed the invasion of Iraq, will be the official face of Teen Arrive Alive. The organization aims to get teens to carry a cell phone containing a GPS chip that sends out regular signals letting parents know where the they are and how fast they're going. If a certain predetermined speed limit is passed, an alarm will go off ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Gen. Tommy Franks now spokesman for teen safety company ]
43.	GPS Devices>Helpless as a ...  There seems to be no escape. It seems as if we're almost physically attached to our mobile phones, and new products and services constantly invite us to depend on technology - in some cases to trust it where we cannot rely on others. A good example is the faith parents place in devices that help keep track of their children. Today it's mobile phones but trackable ID cards, GPS systems and child-location beepers are on the way. A school in Osaka caught the world's attention this year when it opted to tag students with radio frequency ID (RFID) cards, allowing parents and teachers to confirm arr ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Helpless as a ... ]
44.	GPS Offender Tracking>GPS monitoring sparks interest of lawmakers  LARGO - When Thomas Callahan seasons 50 quarts of simmering pasta sauce at an Italian restaurant, the eyes of satellites watch him. When he goes home to his wife, three children and three dogs, and turns on the Discovery Channel or Finding Nemo, the satellites still spy on him. Callahan wears an electronic ankle bracelet and a Global Positioning System device on his waist that transmits signals to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. This creates a computer record of when and where he has gone every day. The Sheriff's Office likes this arrangement because it can track Callahan's movements mor ...  [ Read the GPS Article: GPS monitoring sparks interest of lawmakers ]
45.	GPS Offender Tracking>Budget calls for tighter tracking  If Gov. John Hoeven gets his way during the 2005 Legislative Session, "freedom" won't be what it used to be for high risk sex offenders released on parole. They'll be out of prison, but not out from under the watchful eye of law enforcement. Hoeven's proposal, unveiled during his biannual budget address, calls for numerous changes to the laws surrounding the sentencing, treatment, and release of sex offenders within the state of North Dakota. The most radical change is that of global tracking ­ to watch an offender's every move, even after their release from jail. "We were having some sex off ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Budget calls for tighter tracking ]
46.	GPS Offender Tracking>Offender tracking system helps Va. county save big  Law enforcement officials in Roanoke County, Va., have gone into the bracelet business, but hold the cubic zirconia. These aren’t the kind of accessories that will impress friends at a holiday party. The county sheriff’s department is using a potent mix of technologies including global positioning systems, ankle bracelet transmitters and Microsoft’s MapPoint digital mapping software to track the whereabouts of people who have been arrested for such nonviolent crimes as petty larceny and driving-related offenses. The department has equipped 30 nonviolent offenders with ankle bracelet transmit ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Offender tracking system helps Va. county save big ]
47.	GPS Devices>Taeno Product Development  December 2003 – Work completed on new product for On Guard Taeno have now completed the design of a new tagging system used to monitor offenders on early release programmes. The new tag, known as BluTag, uses the mobile phone network (GSM) and global positioning (GPS) technologies to enable the wearer to be tracked accurately. The design included a number of security features, including tamper resistant straps, panic alarms, on-board management controls and snap-on battery chargers. In addition to this, Taeno helped the client identify moulders and toolmakers who could make the parts to the ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Taeno Product Development ]
48.	GPS Devices>Strategic Receives Pioneer Patent for Wireless Tracking  August 13, 2004: Doug Blakeway, President of Strategic Technologies Inc. (TSXV: STI), is pleased to announce its wholly-owned subsidiary On Guard Plus Limited was awarded U.S. Patent 6,774,797 on August 10, 2004. The patent is entitled Wireless Tag and Monitoring Center System for Tracking the Activities of Individuals. Foreign counterparts to this patent are pending. “We are very pleased that our development team has, to the best of our knowledge, in a world’s first, developed a system that links RFID, the internet, satellite communications, GPRS and mobile solution software into one seamless ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Strategic Receives Pioneer Patent for Wireless Tracking ]
49.	>Offender Tracking  BluTag BluTag is the world’s first all-in-one real-time offender tracking device. Designed to be worn continuously on an offender’s ankle, BluTag uses Global Positioning (GPS) and the mobile telephone network (GSM), to monitor and report position to a custom designed monitoring system. BluTag has been designed to meet the need for an active tracking device capable of reporting immediate alarms to a monitoring centre if the offender leaves a defined inclusion zone or enters a defined exclusion zone. The most obvious applications are for offenders subject to special controls such as stalkers and ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Offender Tracking ]
50.	GPS Offender Tracking>VeriTracks™ Increases Offender Accountability  VeriTracks™ holds probationers accountable for their actions by monitoring their whereabouts and reporting questionable actions to authorities. VeriTracks™ Removes the Anonymity of Offenders Under Supervision VeriTracks™ removes the anonymity of criminal offenders under state supervision by tracking their location and providing location information to law enforcement and corrections officials. Tracking and reporting offender location has been shown to improve probation compliance. With VeriTracks™, offenders know they are being continuously monitored and their locations matched against crime ...  [ Read the GPS Article: VeriTracks™ Increases Offender Accountability ]
51.	Asset Locators>Goofing off? GPS knows where  Customers and nosy neighbors sometimes accuse house painters at Neubert Painting Contractors in Cleveland of leaving work earlier than they should. It used to be the workers' words against their accusers'. But now the company trusts a printout. Global positioning transmitters in all the company's trucks log how long the vehicles are at a location. "When I tell them I have this documented, it sort of takes the wind out of their sails," company president John Neubert said. Global positioning systems don't just tell you where you're going anymore. Businesses are starting to use information compil ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Goofing off? GPS knows where ]
52.	Electronic Monitoring Programs>Go Ahead, Just Try to Disappear  As her daughter enjoyed a weekend road trip, Donna Butler sat back home 120 miles away at her personal computer and watched a blue dot tick slowly across the screen. But not slowly enough. "They were going 85 on the interstate where the speed limit is 70," said Butler, who interrupted 17-year-old Danielle's getaway to let her know, " 'I will personally come up there and drive you home.' " It would have been easy to find her. Whenever Danielle is away from her central Florida home, her mobile phone uses a global positioning system to transmit her precise location, which her mother can track onl ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Go Ahead, Just Try to Disappear ]
53.	GPS Devices>Blutag is purchased by STOP  Strategic Completes Divestiture Raising US$1 Million http://www.strategic-tech.com Vancouver, BC, December 23, 2004--Strategic Technologies Inc. (TSXV: STI), announced completion of the divestiture of Strategic's Verquis LLC subsidiary to Satellite Tracking of People, LLC originally announced August 20, 2004. Under the divestiture agreement, Strategic will immediately receive US $1 million cash plus a warrant to purchase 10 percent of STOP, as well as the right to receive further warrants to acquire 20 percent of any future equity issuances of STOP for the next five years or until STOP complet ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Blutag is purchased by STOP ]
54.	Asset Locators>Bosses keep sharp eye on mobile workers  DANBURY, Conn. -- Ciro Viento commands a platoon of 110 garbage trucks, so when a caller complained after seeing one of the blue and white trash tanks speeding down Route 22, Viento didn't know which driver to blame. Until he checked his computer. With a few taps on the keyboard, Viento zeroed in on the driver of one particular front-loader - which, the screen showed, had been on that very road at 7:22 a.m., doing 51 miles per hour in a zone restricted to 35. Gotcha. More employers are adopting technology like the system used by Viento's company. As they do, many workers who have long enjoyed ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Bosses keep sharp eye on mobile workers ]
55.	Electronic Monitoring Programs>Georgia tracks parolee by GPS  Watson is a convicted felon who was paroled from prison in late November. The Marietta resident has been outfitted with a high-tech Global Positioning Satellite electronic monitor that lets his parole officer track his every move. Michael Watson wears an ankle monitor worn by other parolees and a GPS unit (at waist) that records his movements. Blue dots show Michael Watson's path from his home to a parole center. The red dot (center) shows where he was when this photo was made. Parole Officer Alan Smith can download information from the receiver and transmitter Watson wears around his ankle an ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Georgia tracks parolee by GPS ]
56.	GPS Offender Tracking>Offender Tracking and Verification  When 11 year-old Carlie Brucia was kidnapped and murdered in Sarasota, Fla. in February by an ex-convict who was on probation, law enforcement had no record of his whereabouts and offender tracking became a hot topic. Bill Reach, the director of information services at Florida's Citrus County Sheriff's Office, believes that Brucia's case might have been solved earlier, or even prevented, if law enforcement had been able to attach Smith to a new tracking device before releasing him from prison. The new tracking system, Veritracks, is the product of a five-year partnership between the Florida ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Offender Tracking and Verification ]
57.	GPS Offender Tracking>GPS Device Used To Track Bruce  Court documents have revealed how investigators tracked the prime suspect in the disappearance of Emily Rimel, the Madison Township 5-year-old who vanished December 7. Officials used a GPS, or global positioning system, device on the suspect's car. Early on in the investigation, investigators say they wanted 23-year-old Lindsey Bruce to think he was in the clear, because they were tracking every move he made. Bruce was the number one suspect from the first day of Emily's disappearance. He told police he'd left the child's apartment at 3:30 a.m. and headed for a garage on Rich Street to do some ...  [ Read the GPS Article: GPS Device Used To Track Bruce ]
58.	GPS Devices>STOP Acquires Two Leading Offender Monitoring Technologies  Satellite Tracking of People LLC ("STOP") announced that it had closed a new round of equity funding on December 21, 2004, and completed two simultaneous acquisitions. Specifically, STOP acquired the VeriTracks business line and the related key personnel from General Dynamics , and, through a subsidiary, 100% of the stock of Verquis, LLC from Strategic Technologies, Inc. . The acquisitions bring together first-of-its-kind technology in the field of Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking for offenders within the criminal justice system, including patented crime scene correlation capabilities ...  [ Read the GPS Article: STOP Acquires Two Leading Offender Monitoring Technologies ]
59.	GPS Offender Tracking>Ruling gives cops leeway with GPS  In a decision that could dramatically affect criminal investigations nationwide, a federal judge has ruled police didn't need a warrant when they attached a satellite tracking device to the underbelly of a car being driven by a suspected Hells Angels operative. The ruling by U.S. District Judge David N. Hurd clears the way for a federal trial scheduled to begin next month in Utica in which seven alleged Hells Angels members and associates, including several from the Capital Region, face drug-trafficking charges. The use of satellite tracking devices has stirred controversy and Hurd's ruling di ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Ruling gives cops leeway with GPS ]
60.	Asset Locators>Electronic tracking is finding new uses  SAN DIEGO - John Phillips peered down at the computer screen. Something didn\'t look quite right. It was 9:11 a.m. on the West Coast, or just past noon in the East, and all the bus drivers were supposed to be on break. The map of the District of Columbia showed hundreds of red blips representing vehicles that had been parked for more than an hour. But then there was one black dot, a lone bus, moving rapidly in the northwestern quadrant of the city. Could the D.C. Public Schools bus have been stolen -- or worse -- hijacked with children still on board? Phillips quickly clicked on the icon repre ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Electronic tracking is finding new uses ]