Telephone operable global tracking system for vehicles

A global tracking method for monitoring an alarm condition and locating a movable object, the method comprising:

• outfitting the movable object with a cellular telephone;
• outfitting the object with a GPS (global positioning system) receiver for providing data reflecting a present spatial position of the movable object, in terms of spatial latitude/longitude coordinates thereof;
• interfacing the GPS receiver and the cellular telephone via an interface and using the interface to convert the spatial latitude/longitude coordinates to speech and transmitting the speech through the cellular telephone to a remote location;
• and
• detecting an alarm condition by calculating movements of the movable object which exceed a predetermined distance based on the data provided from the GPS receiver and transmitting an alarm to the remote location responsive thereto, when said movements of predetermined distance have been detected.

A global tracking system (GTS) for monitoring an alarm condition and locating a movable object, the GTS comprising:

• a GPS (global positioning system) receiver located with the movable object, the GPS receiver being effective for providing data reflecting a present spatial position of the movable object, in terms of spatial latitude/longitude coordinates;
• means for noting an alarm condition by detecting movement of the movable object which exceeds a predetermined distance;
• and
• means for transmitting the occurrence of such movement wirelessly to a remote location in response to said alarm condition and when said movements of predetermined distance have been detected.