Garmin GTU 10 Track & Locate

[4evr14]

Anybody heard anything about this?



http://sites.garmin.com/gtu/

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=387&pID=67686




Track What’s Important
GTU 10 is a GPS locator that combines a web-based tracking service with GPS technology so you can keep watch on children, pets and property.

How It Works
The GTU 10 is small, lightweight and waterproof. It easily attaches to a backpack, pet collar or whatever is important to you.

  
When you purchase a new GTU 10, it comes with 1 year of Standard Tracking (coverage dependent on GSM wireless service within the U.S.), so you’ll be ready to go once you register and activate it in your Garmin account.

Then, you can view the location of your GTU 10 on a map from the friendly confines of your computer. For an added level of convenience, you can download the free Garmin Tracker™ app for your mobile device to compare your current location to the direction and location of your GTU 10. For the ability to automatically route to your GTU 10, you can use a Garmin nüLink!™ device.

Using your computer or mobile device, you can also:

◦Create up to 10 geofences (virtual boundaries) for your device. When your GTU 10 enters or exits a geofence, we can send you an email or text message notification.
◦View track history of where your GTU 10 has been.
◦Customize device settings for optimal performance, including low battery/powered off notifications to let you know when it’s time to recharge or when the device has been turned off.

        
Attach your GTU 10 to what you want to track.
 Your GTU 10 enters or exits a geofence that you set up.
 We notify you with an email or text message.
 You can also locate your GTU 10 on your computer or mobile device.
 


Make It Yours
The features of the GTU 10 are so flexible, allowing you to use it to fit your lifestyle.

◦Travelers: Locate luggage and belongings so nothing gets left behind or lost.
◦Parents: Track your children on their way to school to make sure they arrive safely.
◦Pet owners: Receive notifications when your pet exits a geofence so you can go track it down.
◦Runners: Let friends or family track your whereabouts on your daily run, or your progress on race day.

[Cheddarhead]

In the early 90's I worked for a company that was actively developing RFID tags for tracking assets, shipments, etc.  Even used them as "ear tags" for livestock, so you could easily track which animals had been vaccinated, had been inseminated, which ones were the highest milk producers, etc...

Noted that, had the technology been available when my kids were infants, I would have readily had Tags surgically embedded under the skin in each of them...not to actively monitor their whereabouts, but rather for use if one wandered off or were otherwise missing.  A parents worst nightmare...when a kid goes missing, either by wandering off or by being abducted.  This type of tag would be kind of like a "Lo-Jack" for baby Jack.

A key fob, belt buckle, cell phone battery, or other such device would be far less invasive than a tag implanted in ones upper arm or hip...but it's also easier to lose / discard.

Sorry for the hijack...we now return you to your regularly - scheduled programming.

I think the technology is very interesting...looks like a viable competitor to the SPOT Tracking devices.