Vehicle location and position monitoring system using satellite navigation and cellular telephone

Describes a vehicle location and position monitoring system, using two enabling technologies that are now reaching maturity: the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite navigation system and the cellular telephone. The system is called a position locator and monitor. The functional aims of the position locator and monitor are to combine the many attributes of both GPS and the cellular telephone network in a composite package for a variety of uses, two principle ones being: a vehicle location and position monitoring system and; a form of burglar alarm, to protect high value items such as containers or pleasure craft against their fraudulent movement