Armored luxury car owners and drivers can be considered influential, in a very positive way to the fast growth of people using the internet. If you look at the figures there is some very interesting information that comes out. Essentially the amount of traffic that will flow across the internet is expected to quadruple from 2013 to 2018; there are two factors that are responsible for this incredible expected growth.
This growth is not going to be caused by more people buying laptops and connecting, nor is it going to be generated by young people spending more time playing online games or adults gambling on line. No, this is not going to do anything to drive this growth. The real players are users with smart phones downloading apps and using them for social networking or trading on line in all ways and the other contributor is M2M device communication.
What is M2M device communication?
Machine to Machine communication touches practically all parts of our day to day life. Essentially if you could get information about any device a fridge, your air conditioning, security alarms and so on, from remote, you might find this possibility very interesting as it is expected to drive revenue generation from M2M applications from $10.2 million in 2013 to $52.7 million in 2018 according to reputable US analyst sources.
Tracking devices are one of the biggest drivers of this growth, they are based on cellular network, wireless and even satellite based alarm systems to ensure that the most complete form of vehicle tracking is achievable.
The best thing is that all of the armored vehicle technology that you have used to physically protect your vehicle from a pistol or even machine gun attack can be combined with tracking technology to help you control the situation, should the attacker be successful in taking your car or even taking you hostage.
What happens when your armor protection fails?
Well of course it should be said “if or when” your armored protection fails, but should it happen if your vehicle and you and your passengers are not “wired” you will be essentially on your own. Thieves and attackers who can penetrate into your vehicle will do their upmost to remove any communication devices from you, your driver and any passengers to make your car blind so that they can continue with their plans to take you and your car into their domain.
You need to have a carefully developed plan to ensure that you have at least two forms of defense protection that will foil even the most determined of thieves. Each layer buys you time and the chance to alert the security forces to come to your rescue. Time is really important and by deploying smart technology you are essentially “buying all the aces in the pack”. Consider that over a half of investment in M2M cellular technology will be generated by in vehicle apps, many helping with vehicle protection and driver and passenger security.
The attack phase 1
The attackers who have targeted you vehicle will have fully understood how much protection that you have installed, if they do their homework carefully. Perhaps if they managed to crack into the armor protection installers they will have a full 3D set of information about the strengths and weaknesses of your vehicle, any Achilles heels that they can exploit.
One of the most important game plans that these thieves are looking to replicate is defined as the “Operation Stack” principal. The basis of this plan is to make sure that your vehicle is blocked and made to stop in the place that the thieves have chosen. This could be caused by an accident on the road between a couple of cars or in the case of “Operation Stack”, the whole highway is closed and trucks and other vehicles are stuck in the tailback.
This recently developed app listens to the traffic reports in real time and immediately informs the driver how to stay in free flowing traffic, away from the incident. Mobility is really important to avoid a success attack.
The attack phase 2
The thieves, having broken into your vehicle will do everything to stop you communicating with people who could come to your aid. This means that they will want any devices, phones, tablets, laptops and anything that will allow you to communicate.
Recently launched onto the market are some really smart apps that can even work on the most basic phone or be programmed into the driving column that works on the Morse code principal. The device is quickly activated and a series or pre-learned pulses are entered by the driver by finger or thumb. Each pulse combination sends a different message to the rescue center. The device or service can be deactivated, thanks to another pre-programmed pulse sequence.¥
Overall, the ability for the rescue services to track you and or your vehicle by GSM CDMA and satellite to pick up the GPS positioning is the key to this new breakthrough.