vehicle tracking

GPS location service

Vehicle tracking is the use of technology—typically GPS—to monitor a vehicle's location, movement, and behavior in real time or through recorded data.

Fleet managers track delivery trucks, parents track teen drivers, and law enforcement tracks suspects.

The data reveals speed, routes, stops, and driving patterns: The company's vehicle tracking showed he'd been idling for hours.

Related
  • telematicsRemote vehicle data transmission
  • black boxOpaque system or device
  • GPSSatellite-based location technology
  • RFIDWireless identification via electromagnetic fields
  • phone homeContact your residence remotely

geofencing · breadcrumb trail · fleet management · company car · delivery driver · dashcam · heatmaps · cellular networks · traffic management · satellite communication · cloud computing · electronic monitoring · big brother

Categories
Opposites
target of surveillance

vehicle trackingwildlife tracking

Observing wild animal movements

shipment tracking · phone tracking

knowledge state

vehicle trackinglosing track

Failing to monitor

off the grid · going dark · untraceable · vanished · blind spot

visibility/detectability

vehicle trackingevasion

Act of escaping detection

counter-surveillance · GPS jamming · disappearing · hiding

Family

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Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G