Part 2: How to Keep Track With Bluetooth Trackers?

You leave the camera bag in a restaurant. As soon as you realize that your bag is no longer at your side, you take out your smartphone and launch the tracking application. Not only does the tracking app tell you if the bag is still in the restaurant.

But if someone picks up your bag and goes with it as long as the GPS tracker has battery life (and the person with your bag does not find it and does not remove it) you can get results real-time tracking showing where your bag is right now and not just where he was with you. Scenario B: You have a Bluetooth tracking device in the same camera bag and you leave it in the same restaurant. You leave the restaurant and you realize that you no longer have your camera bag. You take out your smartphone and launch the tracking application.

The tracking app tells you the last place he had access to the tracking tag (the restaurant) but he can not tell you if the bag is still there or not (and he can not follow the bag if he left the restaurant). If you go back to where you last saw your camera bag and it's still there, the Bluetooth Follower will reconnect to the device when you're close and tell you where it's going. is located. (Hopefully in the manager's office!) If the bag is gone, however, there is nothing that the Bluetooth follower or companion app can do because the whole thing is based on proximity

Is a Bluetooth tracker? Based on the scenarios mentioned above, you can have a good idea of whether a Bluetooth tracker is for you. If you frequently lose your keys and have to remember where they are (like sitting in the bar of your favorite pub) or if you find them in your office (most Bluetooth tags can make noise for you help locate an object to him), then a Bluetooth tracker is a very high-tech and practical solution to your lost items woes. It's also a great choice when you're carrying something you do not normally wear (like an extra work bag) that you might be inclined to forget somewhere because it's not part of your daily routine.

However, if you want to secure an object and have the ability to track this object in case of theft, a Bluetooth tracker is not powerful enough or powerful enough for your needs. It's perfect for finding lost keys and the laptop bag you've always lost at head office, but it's not an effective way to monitor a bag with $ 10,000 worth of photo equipment.

Once again, Bluetooth trackers are really fancy Reminders of where your belongings can give you alerts if your business is leaving your neighborhood, and they can help you find a lost item in your environment immediate (both by sound alerts and proximity). the much more expensive and expansive real-time tracking offered by GPS units if you need to keep an eye on expensive gear wherever it can finish.

Features to consider

Now that we've talked exactly about what a Bluetooth tracker is, what it is not, and why you might want one, let's take a look at the features found in Bluetooth trackers. Given the influx of these devices, it's important to have a clear idea of whether the features you need. Everyone does not want or need all these features, but it's better to know what you do not need than to make an uninformed purchase.