Is there a proximity based lojack system that can be used for bicycles?
My bicycle was recently stolen and I feel bad because there is like no way to track it and get it back.
I was wondering if there was some kind of device I could get and put under the seat of a new bicycle so that way if it gets stolen I can just track it. I don’t need a fancy GPS lojack item. Just something that I could take my receiver, drive around the neighborhood, and have my receiver beep when I am getting closer to it.
I saw an item called KeyRinger which helps you find lost keys. This would be a perfect item if it only beeped on the receiver side rather than the transmitter side. I don’t want the thieves to know I’m coming.
I don’t know if this is a fictional item, but on Scrubs they used a lojack item to track the janitor. It was a penny size transmitter and when it got close to the receiver the receiver beeped. The closer it got the faster it beeped. Does something like this exist?
Any ideas on a proximity based tracker would be appreciated.
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3 Comments
Comment #727
how would you keep it perpetually powered
Comment #728
You best bet would be something like they use to track tagged animals in the wild. Those will xmit for a couple of months. they only transmit a short carrier pulse intermittently so the batteries last a long time. If you know what you are doing you can make a small transmitter that you could pick up over a normal radio. The only trouble is that it would be illegal. You could rig up a set of walke talkies some of them are pretty small.
Comment #726
As of yet there’s no commercially available GPS type tracking system for bikes. However not like an idea like that doesn’t have merit. Some time back in I read about a bicycle theft ring getting busted by a GPS location device planted in a bike frame by the authorities. The high end mountain bike then was planted at a local community collage and quickly stolen by an unsuspecting thief. They tracked the bike’s signal which lead them to a garage that had the remnants of at least 250 stolen bikes inside.