At 10:13 PM 6/10/01 +0200, Anders Mejl=E6nder Jakhelln wrote:
>Tracking down a beacon in a city area can be difficult, but speaking about=
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>GPS...
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>If you wire up a GPS, GSM module, a PIC and some software you will not=20
>have an alarm, but more like a very good tracking system. To locate your=20
>bike just send your secret kode to your bike as a SMS, and it will return=
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>the exact location of the bike within seconds.
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>Of course this would be a dream device, because you will meet a lot of=20
>problems like charging, antennas, fitting it into the frame bla bla bla...
>For a car, a device like this would be nice and not to expensive, but for=
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>a bike?
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>Everything needed is available at resonable costs (anyone care to build=
 one?)
>I don't know how the cellphone systems work in the US, but you probably=20
>have something like the GSM system with the capability to send short text=
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>messages.

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