Click to play videoNew Delhi: What do you do when you realise your car has been stolen? Call the cops and keep your fingers crossed!
But with the help of technology, you can actually tell the cops where your car is and help them recover it.
When Ram Bhupal, a Chartered Accountant in profession, woke up to on Saturday morning, his car was gone. But Bhupal didn't panic, as he knew something the thieves didn't.
The mobile anti-theft tracking device he installed in his car was telling him just where his wheels were headed.
Bhupal went to the police with information about where exactly his car was.
“I kept getting messages about where the car was going,” said Bhupal.
Accompanied by a Delhi police team, Bhupal finally found his car in a parking lot near a hospital in Hissar, Haryana.
In just 18 hours, the car thieves had changed the locks and driven it over 120 km away, but Bhupal's handy device didn't stop beeping.
Bhupal’s car cost Rs 9 lakh, the device Rs 9,000. And spending of 1 per cent of actual cost of the car on the device helped the owner get the car back, in almost perfect condition.
The device uses the popular GSM mobile phone system to transmit information about its location.
It's easily concealed, and starts working the moment the car doors are forced open.
“Wherever there is a tower it will transmit,” said Amsaki Homesafe Ltd Corporate Sales Head Vinay Bardeja.
The only places where this little black box fails is in basements, locations with jammers and, like any mobile phone, areas with low network coverage.
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