From: Rick v100 (rickv100@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Aug 24 2005 - 11:01:13 PDT
Depends what you see as valauable. Is the military
going to GPS every box or trailer that they own.
Commercial logistics companies usually GPS the trucks
and not the trailers due to cost. As the cost comes
down then they might implement it.
Also from a security standpoint I would be concerned
about all my units having tracking tags using probably
COTS technology that anyone with a tracker could find
me.
Rick
--- david gudmunsen <kroctec@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> In the UK there has been such a high incident rate
> of heavy expensive plant
> theft in recent years that many UK companies are
> fitting GPS asset tracker
> systems to their equipment. These systems can be
> triggered and set off
> alarms for any number of conditions or unauthorised
> movements; many of them
> will record track logs which is also useful for
> apprehending all those
> involved in theft and other illegal activity.
>
> My personal view is that we trust¿¿¿ our governments
> to look after the
> valuable assets (including MVs) that they purchase
> using money that we have
> donated (taxes) and they should be accountable for
> asset management. With
> the facility of bulk purchasing it should be
> possible for most of their
> equipment to be protected and accounted for by the
> use of GPS asset
> trackers. This would ultimately save a great deal of
> grief and one hell of a
> lot of $s too.
>
> There are also paints that contain micro ID details
> so that, even if units
> are parted, the valuable components can still be
> identified.
>
> Best regards from David Gudmunsen
>
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