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Vehicle tracking device makes debut

News Friday June 15, 2007


Vehicle tracking device makes debut

By MICHELLE GOH and MJ BROHIER

Malaysia's first advanced vehicle tracking system called Starfish was launched in Kuala Lumpur with the hope of overcoming the many problems faced with other tracking devices.

The Star Tracker SF3100-1 uses the Global Positioning System (GPS) and the GSM network to provide information on a vehicle's location to computer servers that can then be interrogated over the web to enable the user to track his vehicle.

"This is the beginning of great things," Atmic World Sdn Bhd director Michael Lam said after the recent launch of the product.

"This product is proudly Malaysian made as we wrote the programme and the electronics. The map that the product runs on is supplied by Navi & Map, which are Malaysia's mapping experts. Most of our customers are satisfied with our product and the effectiveness of this product is proven," he added.


Innovative: Lam with a brochure and the product.
"Although GPS/GSM based vehicle-tracking systems already exists in the market, most of them require the use of a call centre that performs the monitoring," Lam said during the launch.

"There's also the possibility of not being able to find the vehicle when brought indoors like a warehouse or car park where there is no GPS signals. Then there's also the possibility of it being dismantled," he said.

"With this new system, the owners do the real-time monitoring themselves over the web at anytime 24/7.

"Using GPRS, the Star Tracker systems sends location information conti-nuously back to the servers where a history of the vehicle's location is built and maintained. So even when the vehicle is dismantled, its last location before transmission stops is known."

It is believed to be the first in Malaysia and possibly the whole world. "We should be proud," Cybron chief executive officer's special assistant Azmi Abdul Aziz, whose company helped to manufacture the Starfish.

"It is our first home-grown product that did not depend on other country's technology. It's fully home grown."

Their target audiences are currently small fleets and the first to use Star Tracker for its fleet management and services is the KL Hop-On Hop-Off City Tour bus services.

However, due to the market demand, they're extending their product to the general consumer market.

The device is fixed to a car's power source and the owner can immobilise the car if it's being stolen through a simple SMS, which the device will then disconnect the fuel valve.

To reconnect the valve, just send another SMS. The car can be tracked even if it's driven to Thailand as the fuel valve can be disconnected when the car is at any part of the world.

The device is affordable, as customers only need to pay a RM3,500 for the tracking unit, installation and three-year map access. To access the maps after that, a yearly fee of not more than RM150 will be charged.

For the device to come with a battery it will cost more and the battery will last two to seven hours.

For more details, visit www.my-Starfish.com
The Inquisitor

Coming to a family near you!!

Laughing ..


Child-watching gadgets gain foothold in Japan..


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17075562/

Quote:
Akiko Fukami's anxiety level shot off the charts two years ago when a 7-year-old girl at an elementary school in a neighboring prefecture vanished and was later found stabbed to death in a forest in Tochigi Prefecture, about 99 miles north of Tokyo.

Ever since, she has insisted her kids walk with a group of other children to and from school, and carry a security buzzer alarm the school supplied even before the dreadful incident in 2005. "It is scary because the murderer hasn't been arrested," says Fukami, adding that she feels there have been so many murder cases involving children in the last few years in Japan that "I can't even remember all of them."

The need to supply kids with security gadgets and mobile handsets with global positioning systems is a sad reality of contemporary Japan, though the country remains one of the safest in the world. Unlike their counterparts in the U.S. and Europe, Japanese kids often walk or commute to school on public transportation systems at a very tender age. That makes them vulnerable to predators—and makes their parents eager to keep tabs by whatever means possible.


Maybe this is Malaysia five years from now??
obmar

All this will make make many to be over protective.

and that aint to good to the development of the child.

so says a song...

the love of the mother brings one to heaven.
the love of a father he is prepared to leave them
the love of relatives when you are among the haves.

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