siliconindia | | July 20199The GPS tracking devices are great to generate women safety, kidnapping prevention, theft prevention, and ensuring that your loved ones are always safeensuring that your loved ones are al-ways safe. Imagine your child driv-ing her first car and you worrying at home. The tracker could buy you peace of mind, while she enjoys an independent ride in her new car. The first car often tends to be a smaller and less expensive car which is not so feature-rich, and the IoT device can be a great add-on. It can help remove worries from your daily life and add a lot of value to your life.The device can be linked to social media and can be unobtrusive. It can help curb the growing delinquency, prevent mishaps and al-low you peace of mind. You can place the track-er in the car under the dashboard, on the rear shelf, under the seats or even under the car itself. The important detail is to place it in such a location that it does not interfere with the other electronics on the vehicle.A GPS tracking system uses the GNSS or the Global Navigation Sat-ellite System network. This network uses a range of satellites that use a range of microwave signals. These signals are transmitted to devices that track GPS to procure information on vehicle location, speed, direction and time. Some advanced devices may help you to track the fuel con-sumption patterns on the vehicle too. This may eventually make it eas-ier to maintain vehicle health and fuel efficiency.Inbuilt Wi-Fi in CarLuxury cars have an inbuilt Wi-Fi that runs the GPS and the infotainment options in the car. The same can be added at much cheaper rates to make your economy car model a luxury one. Just add a car theatre system and add a portable Wi-Fi to the mix. The por-table Wi-Fi operates on a SIM card and creates a hotspot in the car that can be used to run your GPS tracker and also your Wi-Fi enabled enter-tainment system. The fea-ture is easy to add and can be a good way to upgrade your vehicle.SOS Alarm SystemsSafety is one of the major features in a high end car. You can add a vital fea-ture like an SOS alarm in an economy car without notching-up too much of an expense. The SOS button can be attached to the GPS tracker system. The built-in SOS car can be tracked, and in case of emergencies, the use of the button can alert the security ser-vices like the police and fire stations to reach the spot. App cars use this device as a part of their application and can be accessed by both the driv-er and the passenger in a few seconds. This feature can be a life saver if an accident occurs.Engine Cut-off with Start-Stop SystemsThe world is moving towards lower-ing the carbon footprint for fossil fuel use. The best way is to implement the start-stop system in car engines. Some top-end cars do have this built-in. The vehicle has heavy duty start-ers and larger batteries to enable them to start dozens of times when the en-gine shuts-off during idling time. The same can be replicated by tweaking your car batteries and adding an en-gine cut-off system. This may be really useful if you are environment conscious. You may also experiment with using a hybrid LPG-fuel model that can be incorporated in a car by expert mechanics.Buy your car well within your budget, add the add-ons at a low cost, and turn it into an envy generating machine with features that are usual-ly available only in expensive cars. Vikram Kumar
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