The Zoombak GPS dog tracking collar is one of the most popular GPS tracking collars for dogs in the marketplace. The Zoombak offers the following:

• Tracks the real- time location of your dog on-demand 24 hours 7 days a week: on-demand locates are unlimited
• You can pinpoint your dog’s real-time location on-demand anywhere within our nationwide coverage area via Zoombak.com or through our live, toll-free customer care 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Allows you to set up customized zones (up to 10) so you can be promptly notified by text message and/or email (your choice) when your dog leaves the zone. Five (5) zones can be active simultaneously at any given time
• Offers continuous tracking and gives you your dog’s location history
• Live 24/7 customer support via our toll-free number can assist with locating your dog or answering questions

Weighing 2.5 ounces, the Zoombak collar is recommended for dogs weighing at least 15 pounds.

Zoombak service plan

Like most real-time GPS tracking devices, the Zoombak relies on a cellular signal to relay location information. The service plan for the Zoombak starts at $14.99 per month, though you can get this down to $12.08 per month with an annual pre-paid plan. Zoombak uses the T-Mobile network, so be sure to check out their coverage map before you buy.

Zoombak GPS dog collar reviews

A number of consumer-authored Zoombak GPS dog collar reviews have been posted at Amazon.

More Zoombak GPS collar resources

• The official Zoombak GPS dog collar website
• A Zoombak GPS FAQ
• Zoombak GPS collar tips
• A PDF version of the Zoombak owners manual

Mitsuhisa Kobayashi had two ex-wives rent cars for him. He would then place a GPS tracking device in the car and make a copy of the key. With the ability to track its location, and a spare key, stealing the vehicle later was easy. So easy in fact, that he stole eight of them.

Kobayashi was in possession of three of the eight stolen cars when he was arrested by Nishinomiya Police Station in February. He told investigators: “I wanted to drive my favorite cars. I sold the other five cars on the Internet.”

• A Maryland-based HVAC company (35 vehicles) saved over $21,000 in fuel costs in their first six months using GPS fleet tracking, and saved over $100,000 in labor charges
• Peterson Industrial, Inc., an Alabama based company focused on industrial and commercial piping, plumbing and metal fabricating, anticipates annual savings of around $350,000
• A Navtrak study reports average reductions in overtime of 13.4%

White said his colleague, bear researcher LaVern Beier, never had any doubt about what was going on.

“Kevin was really focused at first on another researcher, but the odds were just too great that someone else would be using that same frequency in the same area,” Beier said. “This was the only logical explanation. But it had to be the right bear with the right size head, and it stayed on.”

Beier said that every year or so, Alaskans see pictures in the newspapers of a moose in Anchorage tangled in a swing set, wrapped in a string of Christmas tree lights, or wearing an old tire or something.

“Bears are way more mischievous and opportunistic, and they are really curious about foreign objects in their environment,” he said.

Beier has watched bears scavenging and said they really root around and get into things, and he can picture a bear slipping its head through the collar.

From JuneauEmpire.com via The Outdoor News Hound.

The issues include both who will do the monitoring and who will pay for the program, whose costs are conservatively estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Via NBC11.com.

Axcess Family Finder features easy-to-use interactive maps to monitor or guide family members to specific locations…The Axcess Family Finder Web site also supports added security measures with Scheduled Checks which allows parents to register specific locations to be tracked during certain times. GPS technology is used to locate the child’s phone, and the parents’ phones can receive a text message automatically notifying them of the child’s location.

I have worked a lot of construction site burglaries, and traditionally they are rather hard to break, but with the GPS system, we could track them down in less than 24 hours.

Over the past year or so, I’ve seen more reports of school districts using GPS for tracking school buses. I’ve often wondered what the benefits are — more efficient fleet management, improved route development, etc. But after last week’s deadly wildfires in Southern California, we see a new use.

GPS-equipped school buses can be used to shuttle emergency responders such as fire fighters, and evacuate those in need, including nursing home residents…

As reported on CNN, Heather Storke of Oceanside, CA said the fleet of school buses that normally transport children in Poway “saved my grandma and hundred of other elderly and disabled people.”

“My parents went quickly to get my Gram. The closer they got to Poway the thick cloud of smoke turned the sky as dark as pitch black night. When they arrived, there was a fleet of school buses waiting to evacuate the center’s residents whose families were unable to get there,” Storke said.

More on GPS school buses for emergency response.

84 percent of respondents expressed interest in “child locator” services that would show a detailed route to where their child is currently, and 47 percent expressed interest in “friend locator” services.

A healthy willingness for subscribers to pay for such services: Approximately 74 percent of respondents with a minor child indicated an acceptance of monthly fees for “child locator” offerings, and nearly 40 percent of respondents indicated wiliness to pay for “friend locator” offerings. Of note, respondents expressed heightened interest for such offerings if provided via ad-sponsored models.

GPS Business News points out the great discrepancy between what people say and what they do, noting that the adoption rate for child tracking services is very low, despite the availability of such offerings.

In May, June and July of last year, town employees pumped a total of 110,293 gallons, compared to 96,160 during the same period this year, a 13 percent drop.

Cutbacks in overtime could account for part, but not all, of the change, Nolan said.

The tracking systems were installed in 614 vehicles in May. This is a great example of how GPS tracking systems can help pay for themselves.