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Mobile Phone Tracking

Discussion in 'GENERAL Wireless Discussion' started by chiefbubblewrap, May 7, 2008.

  1. chiefbubblewrap

    chiefbubblewrap New Member

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    Folks,

    I'm pursuing a project which will effectively necessitate that mobile phones will be tracked. The outline is that if an incident were to occur, a user will be able to enable to start up an application on their phone which will allow on command send their location to a central hub. It is a simple idea, but one which requires a lot of technical knowledge.

    So what I’d like to know is;

    In general, if I were to track a gsm phone how accurate would it be?

    Is there any way to improve this?

    Would the application software be expensive to get written?

    Thanks in advance

    -Steve
     
    #1 chiefbubblewrap, May 7, 2008
  2. RadioRaiders

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    It can also be done with just a simple app like GPSGate using Google maps. - sheureka
     
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  4. Steven R

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    This is really interesting concept!

    Phone tracking is awesome, and comes in handy, really. :biggrin:

    Aren't there any current features that can track our phones? I'm sure there's gotta be something out there.
     
    #4 Steven R, May 11, 2008
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    KyleAndMelissa22 Woot Woot, Splat !!!
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    Your phone could be tracked (by your carrier / law enforcement) based on what tower(s) your phone is using.
    But I wonder if your phone could be tracked while it is idle...
     
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    #5 KyleAndMelissa22, May 12, 2008
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    Of course it can be tracked in idle mode. Your location is calculated according to what tower you are connected to, and the signal strength of the other surrounding towers. In idle mode it's still measuring neighboring cell strength and sending and receiving info from the network every few milliseconds.
     
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    Oh thanks, I'll have to take a look into these.. I got 2 kids and you know.. parties these days.
     
    #8 Steven R, May 18, 2008
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