PROJECT SUMMARY

Datalink Systems Inc. was contracted to develop a city wide monitoring and data relay system which would allow LoJack http://www.lojack.com/car/pages/car-works.aspx equipped vehicles to be located quickly when stolen.  Rather than adopt the procedure of having a number of vehicles with tracking receivers and directional antennas drive around the city looking for the LoJack signal from the stolen vehicle, CARSEG (LoJack franchisee) placed a number of monitors on roof tops around the city. 

Each site was equipped with a TAIT T2010 UHF  transceiver and an intelligent modem.  Data packets were relayed via other sites across the city to the base office where a DataGate processed the data and displayed it on a screen.  Receiver signal triangulation located the stolen vehicle in a specific neighborhood followed by a tracker car and Police being dispatched to recover the vehicle.

System was designed by Datalink and became active in 2000.

Datalink's partner in this project was CARSEG, S.A. based in Guayaquil, Ecuador.