VehicleSecurity

Datadot spray on security
www.datadotsecurity.com or www.datadot.co.za sprays thousands of micro dots on the vehicle. With a http://www.donthijackme.co.za sticker on the bumper the thief can determine if the vehicle does have micro dots or not by looking up the registration number on the website. This database should be available in a text file for easy downloading. Thus crime syndicates can keep local copies on their PCs. Everything is done so that the crime syndicates can know exactly which vehicles have tracking devices. This is why hardly any http://www.escom.co.za and http://www.telkom.co.za bakkies gets hijacked. The syndicates knows that every single vehicle of theirs has a tracking device.

From http://www.datadot.co.za website "...Cellphones, DVD players, Office Equipment, Personal Computers, Digital Cameras, Quad Bikes, Jet Ski’s and other personal valuables are marked with DataDots and linked to the exclusive Micro Asset Tracking database. Each unique pin number is registered on the Micro Asset Tracking SA National database. Client details are linked to each individual pin number. " Car rental companies have datadotted their complete fleet. The criminals are convinced that these vehicles are datadotted and thus hardly any of their vehicles get hijacked.

My view is that this database should not be exclusive but freely available to the criminals and public. For example there was a story in the newspaper about a taxi being hijacked. About 500m from the spot where they took the vehicle they noticed it was datadotted. They stopped the taxi and abandoned it. But the driver had a gun pressed against his head. Had he been able to convince the hijackers that he the vehicle was datadotted they would not have hijaced him to begin with in the first place. And the same logic can be extended to residences.

Bluffing won't work but will only get you killed. Like the sticker on the back of cars:"Protected by satellite". Nobody believes it. No, the crook must be able to phone in your number plate to the syndicate who will cross-check the number on their local copy of vehicles downloaded from http://www.donthijack.co.za. This website integrity must be beyond dispute. A person must be able to prove to http://www.donthijack.co.za that they do indeed have a subscription with http://www.netstar.co.za or a Gps and Gprs tracking system. See  EmbeddedPc and GpsAndGprs. In the same way that http://www.telkom.co.za and http://www.escom.co.za don't have to bluff - everybody is convinced their vehicles are being tracked in realtime. I have discussed integrating GPRS, GPS with an embedded Pc at length elsewhere.

Using WindowsAutomation (http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/) software extract the GPS coordinates of every single street from the http://shop.veza.co.za/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=VT05S or http://www.veza.co.za GPS road software package. And then prove to http://www.donthijackme.co.za that you do indeed have an embedded PC with every single street and it's GPS coordinates and that the EmbeddedPc at your base and in your car is comparing your route in realtime by having the car GPRS your coordinates every three minutes to the base. Customising the software to your driving routine is trivial. For example there are certain roads where you would never stop, or robots where you would never open your door. Or driving away at 2am. There is even commercial FacialRecognition software for R6000,00 that can automatically authenticate the driver behind the wheel everytime the door opens and GPRS a Jpeg image to a central base if that person is not you.

If the door does open an alert is sent in realtime to your base. Now imagine if you could convince the crime syndicates that your vehicle has such a system onboard. Don't you think they will go and hijack somebody else? And there is nothing "hitechish" or "sophisticated" about what I am describing - just a bog standard MySql database, Python, EmbeddedPc, GPRS modem, DcDcConverter, GPS and http://www.netstar.co.za radio transponder backup system. It is trivially easy to implement.

Contractors in dangerous areas: BR If you are contractor and your vehicles has to enter township or squatter areas, you are virtually guarenteed to get hijacked at some point in time. Replace the dashboard with Lexar BulletProofGlass. A vibration sensor detects any attempt at smashing through the glass to get to the the http://www.netstar.co.za tracking device and GrpsAndGps modem. Ideally one should use stainless steel. But placing electronics inside a steelbox creates what is known as a FarradayCage. It blocks all electromagnetic signals from entering or leaving the box. The other problem is that GSM uses Spread sprectrum frequency hopping which can easily be jammed with a jamming device. Connect the http://www.roundsolutions.com modem patented jamming detection relay to the panic button of the http://www.netstar.co.za radio device. Which is why only http://www.netstar.co.za should be used as a tracking company because as part of the Altech group only they have the most radio towers using secret frequencies. I am not pushing Netstar as a company merely stating a fact. If the last known GPS coordinates are known to Netstar it makes it much more likely to find your vehicle using their radio triangulation - they know at least where to start looking.