Post by thread:[OT]: Getting cell phone position

Sure, if you're the local police and you have a court order... The cellular provider -may- be able to track a cell phone if they've set up their network to allow this, but you as a casual user will have absolutely NO access to this information. The E-911 initiative in the USA (to allow emergency services to locate a phone to within 3 meters) hasn't been widely deployed despite an FCC mandate to do so ASAP. There is also a car theft system that uses cellular phone cell tracking to help locate a stolen vehicle but they are limited to only tracing 'stolen' vehicles, and do this with the full cooperation of the cell network provider (who gets a fee for each trace). See also http://www.cell-loc.com/what_locating.html but this requires the cooperation of the cell phone being tracked. Robert Rafael Vidal Aroca wrote: > > Anyone knows if would be possible to know in wich cell is the cell > phone currently "connect" in a way that we can track it? > > []s Rafael. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads

> Anyone knows if would be possible to know in wich cell is the cell > phone currently "connect" in a way that we can track it? You are probably better off having a dedicated cell phone unit connected to a GPS receiver, so you can interrogate the GPS position using SMS -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads

Robert Rolf wrote: >Sure, if you're the local police and you have a court order... >The cellular provider -may- be able to track a cell phone if they've set >up their network to allow this, but you as a casual user will have >absolutely NO access to this information. > Ok, but if I were a cell phone company partner? Could it be done? Could they use an standart communication protocol in order to my company get tracking data? Is it legally correct? Or even the tel company have to get an authorization to obtain the cell phones position? >See also >http://www.cell-loc.com/what_locating.html >but this requires the cooperation of the cell phone being tracked. > > What do you mean by that? Is it possible to track a CDMA phone just because it is enabled to be tracked? Isn't there any ohter requirements? []s Rafael. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads

Rafael Vidal Aroca wrote: > Robert Rolf wrote: > >Sure, if you're the local police and you have a court order... > >The cellular provider -may- be able to track a cell phone if they've set > >up their network to allow this, but you as a casual user will have > >absolutely NO access to this information. > Ok, but if I were a cell phone company partner? Could it be done? > Could they use an standart communication protocol in order to my company > get tracking data? If you are a partner with the company, and the phone is actively involved (e.g. no 'spy' stuff), then you can do what Cell-loc does. > Is it legally correct? Or even the tel company have to get an > authorization to obtain the cell phones position? If the target cell phone is co-operating, then it is legal to track it. As has been suggested, GPS and SMS messages are the simplest/least costly way to go, and give you meter accuracies with minimal effort. > >See also > >http://www.cell-loc.com/what_locating.html > >but this requires the cooperation of the cell phone being tracked. > > > > > What do you mean by that? Is it possible to track a CDMA phone just > because it is enabled to be tracked? Isn't there any ohter requirements? Yes, it is possible for your cell provider to track ANY turned on cell phone. If the phone is cooperating, i.e. transmitting/measuring info you can get down to meter accuracies rather than just which sector the phone is in. Please use one of the search engines to track down the many ways that this is ALREADY done. Robert -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads