gps tracking sofware

Does anyone know of any "hidden" software I can install onto my 29 after I install the gps so that I can track it from my desktop? It would be nice for security. It would have to be a program that hid itself in windows services.

 

So IF your laptop is stolen and then IF you get it back you can see where it WAS? Doesn't sound like security to me.... A .45 Colt? Now THAT sounds like security!

 

No I mean something that updates itself every once and a while and that I can view its position from my desktop.

 

Yeah... You can bury a GPS tracking device into it somewhere...

 

there isnt something that can use built in gps?

 

You can subscribe to LoJack. It is the same type of system that is installed in cars. Except this one goes in the computer, undetected. If it were to be stolen Lojack tracks it down.

Then you have the TPM type system. It comes standard in the CF30 models. Your computer will be unoperable, and able to be tracked down.

I do not know of any system that you can install in it, then moniter it from another computer. The only way I see that you can do that is too use a GPS tracking/moniter system that is usually installed in a vehicle. It will allow you to see exactly where the vehicle is, speed, started, stopped, just about all you would like to know. However, the hardware, or guts is too big from what I have seen to fit in your laptop. Besides, they either tap into the car's ECM, or the connector under the dash. The system is mostly used for the tracking, monitering of an employee, vehicle in a company vehicle.
The system you are looking for would be pretty neat though. It will come out for sure, if not already. Just do alot of searching!

 

You may be able to rig something using the Amateur radio APRS system?
I have played with this on and off with this application in mind but I have not stuck with it long enough to get it working just right.

All of the parts are there to do this though.

The APRS system is an automatic position reporting system that uses a series of relays and digipeters to provide position location service for Ham radio geeks like myself.

Google APRS to learn about it.
There are several web sites that then provide the tracking for the system.

The most used one is www.findu.com where there is also a lot of info about the system.

You do need to be a licensed amateur to transmit using your FCC assigned call sign but this is a simple thing to obtain.

Sounds cool eh?

I usually have my vehicle transmitting this info when traveling so my location can be tracked.

Ed

 

So I can add u to my stereotypes of US-citizens


Have look on the GPS GSM GPRS Tracker TK 102 or similar devices. They are very small and u can use the gps-signal also for ur computer. It should fit without the housing in the cf-29. I attached one of this devices in my car against the thieves.

 

That’s not true at all
But
The majority of people on the forum consider the members in the Panasonic Toughbook section Army types and tend to leave us alone

Btw; I’m ok with that

Alex

 

The problem with the Lojack & TPM system is they require subscription to a service, as do most Automobile GPS/Tracking/LoJack type hardware. The purveyors of such hardware are not content to merely charge large bux for hardware; they want that monthly fee too, plus they have a cellular data connection that has fees attached.

Anything you could put together from pieces would by nature require that the machine be running, booted up & connected to the internet using YOUR user profile/software environment for you to track it; this would obviously not survive the usual "Nuke & Pave" treatment most stolen laptops receive before being sold.

There are lots of workarounds for this I'm sure; you could possible get a cheap "pay as you go" cellphone with GPS "where you at" feature & bury it inside the laptop; disconnect anything that makes noise in the phone & you could conceivably record the thieves talking until your airtime runs out...

mnem
Where you at? I IZ IN UR SHOO - LEEVIN U A PREZENT.

 

shackwrrr,
There is a common misperception out there, probably encouraged by dumb tv cop shows, that GPS receivers can be tracked. They can't, they are receivers, not transmitters. All of the actual position reporting stuff, onstar, cell phones, etc require a radio of some sort to report position. The GPS tells the transmitter where it is located and the radio-cell phone what have you, sends that information out to a receiver somewhere. Most of the tracking of cell phone position is done by triangulating the cell phone position from the closest cell towers. I know there are some "big brother is watching you" types out there who think there are transmitters hidden in GPS units, but I don't think anyone could sneak a transmitter by Mnem or Marconi, and neither of them have reported any secret stuff concealed in a EM408 GPS.
CAP
Where is Jack Bauer?

 

Thanks guys. I think everyone answered it well. I never thought of the "nuke and pave" so I guess software is out of the idea. I just figured if there was software out there I would grab it up. I dont think Ill bother with the hardware. There is a free service out there that is software that uses your Ip address

http://mylaptopgps.com/

funny about the name though because they dont use gps at all.


Thanks

 

I am sure you can start the GPS at boot and collect data on your position, then, whenever the laptop goes online you can report that data to a server (preferably you bought a static IP from your ISP and you have a computer running a flavour of linux on 24/7). I suppose if you have WWAN you would always be online and could then track it real time.

It seems like such an interface would not be hard to write. If you find one that uploads your current position to a server, and that program is open source then it wouldn't be to hard to modify it as to run as part of a windows service.

^^ seems like a fun project