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Agra - Car lifters beware! A researcher in Agra has developed a new satellite-based automatic vehicle location device that once installed can keep track of the vehicle in any part of India.

Shailendra Bansal, an IIT graduate, said his device can also be used to track the vehicle on previous days too, using a software.

This AVL (Automatic Vehicle Location) device receives location coordinates from the GPS (Global Positioning System) satellites and transmits them to a web server through the GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) network, Bansal told IANS.

This is the first time such a mechanism has been developed in India though similar security arrangements are already in vogue in Western countries.

Anyone having web access and information of the vehicles ID can see the location of the vehicle in real time from one of the many different map options available, he added.

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