GT03B GPS inside

Came in the mail ordered over a month ago, the long-awaited GPS tracker GT03B. It was not enough internal struggle whether to buy this thing. It's not cheap, but where is the guarantee that will be the same "not cheap" to work... I need a tracker. I have a lot of children and a very I would like to monitor their movement around the city, and social circle. The device allows you to see its position on www.cootrack.com and receive SMS messages via SMS-request or in case of alarm situations when the system is armed. 4 remember phone numbers, and interacts with them. Understand the format of an entry in the +3753312344567.

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The first thing that caught my eye when I opened the box is its size. For some reason I was expecting significantly more. The device seemed very compact. In addition to the tracker in a box found: battery charger, USB interface cable (charging cable), battery and instructions. The device itself had 2 switches, mini-USB port, 2 LEDs and a relatively large red SOS button which can be illuminated from the inside by a separate led. Ie LEDs in total 3. The body of the device painted a nice velvety paint finish, similar to rubber.
Having gathered the device, I put it on charge. To full charge it is not diverted for 3 hours. Then real life began — the period of exploration and customization. Inserted loose at the time, the active SIM card and began to consistently looking in the manual to send to the SMS device, and then carefully examine his responses. Then checked the security functions. I must admit, that while I understand the syntax and its features — not once made a mistake. The device was either silent, or sent an error code. But still I must admit that it is elementary to configure and then it clearly works with these settings regardless of changing the SIM card. I tried it rates only voice. Did not work online tracking. Also tried only web fares then don't work voice function, ie remote monitoring, and dial by pressing the SOS button. However, SMS is sent and received.
The device is controlled and programmed exclusively via SMS and external buttons/switches. Any attempt to connect it to the computer fiasco. Was taken as a known-good USB cable from the camcorder (I want to underline its quality) and were included viewing logs on Linux — none of the stitching is not pulled in the log under any circumstances. Ie from USB it can only be charged. How to control the device can be read user manual, so to stop this we will not.
The next day the Navigator who in the evening after the experiments have been off and not put on additional charge, was sewn into the pocket of one of the children going to a day camp. It is sewn to is not lost. After their departure the site was open and... the Wife was not overwhelmed with delight :). Throughout the day she would know exactly where the child is. It should be noted that the device allows you to track not only GPS but also GSM. If lost satellite signal, the map at the current point is not displayed, the letter "G" (GPS) in blue inverted "drop", and the letter "L" (LBS) in green. In the case of the mode of determining the position over the cellular network (LBS), the accuracy drops sharply and the situation can randomly roll around the map for miles, depending on the switching SOT, but nevertheless, overall it gives a very digestible picture of the situation.

LBS

Additionally, the device reports the charge level of its battery, the time of receipt of the coordinates, without the possibility of binding in my time zone and the address, which, apparently, receives from Google. All this you can see in the screenshot. The map can be switch the mode of satellite images. The battery level of the tracker reports four discrete values: 95%, 55%, 30%(in this case, via SMS complains that low power), and the last sends a message of type "I switched off because of a dead power supply". In the latter case, its status, of course, goes into "Offline" and stays on map "drop" of gray. All, then you can just catch the kid, rip the darn to retrieve the tracker and recharge it again. The first time he has worked continuously for less than a day. Ie the evening before with the experiments of the day before lunch.
GPS

Trigger the SOS button (hold 3 seconds) is marked by double trigger vibrometric in the tracker. Yes! There is a classic vibrometry, which is used in mobile phones and this is the only mode in which it is possible to feel it.

Button

With the way, it has a microphone to listen to surrounding space. The gain of the microphone is very strong, so the sound is not pleasant because of the presence of distortion. So, after tripping vibro tracker sends group SMS-alarming message on the phone that you have programmed the tracker and proceeds to subsequent calls to these numbers until you talk to at least one of them. Mobile hysteria will continue for about 5 minutes, then the tracker will calm down.

SOS

To the question "how the tracker works with a network of the operator, falls asleep if he's" the answer is that the LEDs go to sleep and stop flashing. Radio is not asleep. He works constantly. I found out using a conventional radio. Periodicity of sending data to the server floats in the range from 20 seconds to one minute. It might not be a tracker, and Internet via GPRS. I may measure in the open air would get different results.

Track

And that's probably all that I would like to tell you about. In General it suits me and my tasks it solves.
What I would like to see in it, but what is not in it: buffering the received coordinates in the absence of GSM communication, the ability to select a server to transfer data, a large (living longer) battery.
That it is very good: size, ability to be guided by a GSM cell phone.

Finally some more pictures for you:



on the Right: vibration motor








All the best to you :).

UPD:Being long in one place the tracker by GPRS gives the coordinates every 3 minutes.

UPD2: unfortunately, as practice showed, the majority of the readers of my article — the immature youths, who saw it as anything more as an encroachment on their personal freedom. Ie excited own... a clear indication that their case is far from the truth and perfection. Them, these things have to hide. Draughty and hatred of their parents and especially to their care. Likely not even realize.
The result — killed my karma and lots of poorly adequate posts in the comments. Sorry. I was hoping for a different outcome.
The technical part generally disappeared behind a wave of violent protests.

UPD3: photos Added with relative sizes.
Article based on information from habrahabr.ru

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