Nigeria has recently seen a surge in the number of vehicles that have car trackers installed in them due to the myriads of security challenges bedevelling the country and a lot of successes have been recorded using these trackers to crack down on criminals especially kidnappers and bandits who abduct car owners and demand for huge ransom or rob car owners of their vehicles at gun point. Of note is the viral story of a young lady who was robbed of her car along Lagos – Ibadan expressway and unfortunately killed. Her vehicle had a car tracker but unknown to the bandits who robbed and killed her, they changed the color of the vehicle and converted it to personal use. A complaint was lodged at the police station by the lady’s husband, the vehicle was tracked and recovered from the house of one of the bandits. The whole recovery process took about an hour, all other members of the syndicate were eventually arrested and charged to court. The benefits of car trackers in Nigeria cannot be over emphasized.
Car trackers have evolved with cutting edge technological advancement to further make locating your car easier and accurate, these modern day car trackers use GPS technology . In contrast to modern day car trackers, old generation car trackers use GSM technology, these GSM based car trackers are still very much in use in Nigeria. GSM(Global System for Mobile Communication) is a protocol for wireless cellular communication , it is largely used by mobile phones to communicate with one another and is today the most widely used protocol in the world, it came into existence in 1991 as an upgrade on the analog communication protocol. For positioning ,it works in a similar way like GPS but it has to rely on base stations to calculate position, these base stations in Nigeria are managed by licensed GSM providers( MTN,glo,Airtel,9 mobile). GSM based car trackers calculate position by measuring the distance of the car tracker to the nearest GSM base station of the provider i.e it can only give a range and not a precise location unlike the GPS based car trackers that rely on direct satellite communication and advanced mapping. Many car trackers in Nigeria still use this old technology of tracking vehicles. GSM tracking has many drawbacks and way inferior to GPS tracking ,some of the drawbacks are highlighted below;
1. Power failure
2. Distance to base station
1. Power failure
It’s a known fact that Nigeria has one of the poorest power supply in the world, some parts especially the hinterland get an average of 2 hours of grid electricity every week. GSM base stations in this areas rely heavily on alternative power source mostly diesel powered energy generators. These areas could be cut off from communication for days when these power generators break down . Repairs on communication facilities in these areas are oftentimes not prioritised by telecoms company because of the lean user density and accessibility issues in these areas, engineers have to be deployed from major cities to these areas which might sometimes take days to weeks to accomplish. They would rather prioritize repairs in areas where they have high user density and can easily access.
Now imagine a scenario where a vehicle has to be tracked to these areas during this technical downtime, it will be close to impossible to recover such a car. Unlike a car tracker that uses GPS technology, where the location of a car tracker is determined by satellites, satellites hardly require maintenance,they have 0 downtime and do not rely on fossil fuel to operate.
2. Distance to base station
car trackers with GSM technology make use of triangulation to determine location i.e the location of the tracker is determined by the distance of the tracker to the nearest GSM base station. The present GSM coverage in Nigeria is 70%, meaning 30% of Nigerians do not have access to GSM services, this automatically implies that car trackers using GSM technology will not work in these areas that are not under GSM coverage, this would to a great deal impact on the primary function of a car tracker which is to help vehicle owners recover their vehicles in the event of theft or help them track their commercial vehicles at any given time. The dependence of these car trackers on GSM has made it impossible for them to be used in car navigation unlike the GPS car trackers that allow vehicles to be tracked anywhere on earth with 100% accuracy, GPS car trackers rely on satellite signals that can be received anywhere on earth.
Why we are the best?
Our car tracker uses the latest GPS optimization technology that is not in the market, that is why we are the best car tracking company in Nigeria . Our car trackers have been adjudged the best by our teeming private and commercial customers, most of these customers were previously using different brands of car trackers sourced from other companies. The following features stand our car trackers out from the rest ;
1. Geofencing
2. Voice recorder
3. Integration with Google Earth
4. Advanced tracking platform
5. Free consultation
1. Geofencing
Our car trackers are equipped with a unique geo fencing feature, you can set boundaries for your vehicles i.e you can restrict your vehicle’s movement to a defined area. For example, if you run a cab business in Lagos and you don’t want your driver to drive your car beyond the borders of Lagos, our car tracker can do this for you. Should your driver try to drive the car beyond the set area ,the vehicle ignition will switch off and notify you via sms immediately. Restricting the area of use of your cab is one of the most daunting challenges transport business owners encounter running their transport businesses, with our car trackers that will be a thing of the past. You can now be assured that your car is being used by your driver as instructed and not being used by your driver outside of the area where it’s intended to be driven. This will reduce your cost of repairs and elongate the life span of your vehicle.
2. Voice recorder
Ever imagined what your kids are doing behind your back, our car trackers have voice recording feature that you can enable via sms,it will record all the conversation going on in the vehicle, it could help you know the kind of friends your kids keep and the things they do when you aren’t watching. It’s also useful in crime control, in the event your car gets stolen you can enable this feature and record all the conversation going on in the vehicle, this piece of information are invaluable to law enforcement agencies as it will help them track down fleeing crime syndicate and hatch their other plans thereby protecting the society at large. Our car tracker has a memory card port where you can fix and remove a memory card with ease,this memory card stores all the conversation going on in the vehicle once this feature is activated.
3. Integration with Google Earth
Google earth is an app developed by Google that captures the whole earth in 3D, you can zoom in and pan around any location with this app. Most of the car trackers in Nigeria use google map to show location of vehicles, Google map will at best show the closest landmark to the vehicle or show the street where the vehicle is. Our car trackers can be integrated into Google earth without any additional cost. With this feature, you can locate the exact position of your car in 3D should your car be stolen, be it under a tree, inside a house or just anywhere. This feature reduces the resources spent in the course of looking for a stolen vehicle and reduces the overall recovery time.
4. Advanced tracking platform
Our online tracking platform is hosted on a very secured server with advanced caching technology. You can call up your vehicle location within seconds, our server does not need to fetch the data from a remote server. The data is cached on a content delivery network that feeds you the data within seconds. We have mobile apps too both on Android and iOS with the same advanced caching technology. You can also deploy our remote demobilizer from our online tracking platform, you only need access to internet to demobilize your vehicle in case of theft, you can also demobilize it by using your mobile phone to send a command to the car tracker via sms. Also, you can view the movement history of your vehicle for a specific time frame using our online tracking platform, this is useful for record keeping and also checking the excesses of drivers who oftentimes for personal gains use commercial vehicles out of intended route.
5. Free consultation
We render free before and after sales consultation to our customers, we help determine the best type of car tracker for your business or personal use. Some trackers are better suited for some purposes. For instance, a rechargeable car tracker will be better suited for a car dealer than a hard wired one in the sense that an average car dealer has a lot of cars in his shop, installing hard wired car trackers in these vehicles will be time consuming and financially unsound considering the money that will be spent installing each of these trackers and uninstalling them after the cars are sold. In the case of a rechargeable car tracker, you do not need to pay our technician to install and uninstall these trackers,you can have it concealed in the vehicles yourself and remove them when the vehicles are sold, they come with long lasting battery that could last more than a month when fully charged.
Should you need a car tracker, do not hesitate to contact us. We sell the best car trackers in Nigeria.