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By Greg Bartlett

Laptops and computers are growing more powerful and increasing in speed every day. As they become more valuable they are more open to physical theft. This is because of two reasons. First all this technology tends to get smaller and smaller with each passing year. If you think back to the early years and how big and heavy that new laptop was and compare it to today’s versions. It was like a huge brick compared to the sleek laptops which you can now hold in the palm of your hand almost. Another reason is that these things are now more accessible. Everyone has one, can carry computers around with them. In their car, at cafes and restaurants and other public places, leaving them very open to theft!

GPS tracking systems can be of two kinds. There is the multinational system which receives information from satellites, and also the geopositional tracking which receives and transmits to computers on the ground. These can receive and track signals from several different receivers and transmitters. They can bypass the orbital satellite system because the main computer has the access to the satellites so the smaller computers do not have to.

Several companies now offer wireless tracking for laptop recovery. A GPS transmitter can be built into the hardware of a laptop. This cannot be disabled or removed easily. With this sort of protection in place, a stolen laptop will continue to transmit a signal to the receiving computer. It can be shielded temporarily by the thieves, but not forever. Once it is removed from its shielding and used, then its location will be transmitted immediately and it can be recovered.

With this technology, it will help to recover the almost one in every ten laptops which are stolen each year. Not only is it the physical theft that is of damaging consequences to the owners but all the fact of all the sensitive information that is usually found on most people’s laptops: passwords, personal information, family details and photos, emails etc. There is a lot of potentially very valuable information which could be used by the thieves themselves or sold on to make even more money in the international markets.

GSM GPS tracking of laptops and small computers is becoming increasingly more and more valuable and important as more of these devices are open to theft. Most large computer manufacturers now incorporate this technology into many of their new hardware.