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FAQ

What happens to the stolen cars?

The stolen car is quite difficult to sell - it requires brand new identity: new documents, new vehicle identification number (VIN), new engine serial number, it is usually described and placed on a lost cars list at police stations, etc. As for now, most stolen cars are "decomposed" into used spare parts, which are being sold to car workshops and individual clients on specific used car parts market or via popular internet auction portals.

Who benefits from this procedure?

a thief - he does not need to be concerned about new identity of a car: organising new documents, reprinting serial numbers /car body VIN, engine number/, hiring an electronic specialist to dismount all security systems, change VIN stored in car ECUs and computers etc.
a workshop - the used part from stolen brand new car is almost as good as new one, but it is much cheaper - a workshop can earn more on selling it, or the workshop can sell it cheaper to client, thus winning the price competition with other workshop
a client of the workshop - as the repair of the car was cheaper and he saved some money

There are further beneficiates:

a car producer: another car is being sold in place of the stolen one
an insurance company /despite the fact of paying for stolen cars/: the owner buys another car and pays higher insurance rent for a new car then for his previous, older stolen one. The costs of paying for stolen cars are in fact evenly transferred onto clients, paying the insurance.

As we can see, the number of beneficiates is quite large, as compared to the only person harmed: the owner of a car, so it does not require a prophet to forecast, that such actions are going to be continued

Is vehicle alarm system sufficient to protect a car?

Most modern vehicle security systems use ultrasonic or microwave or shock detectors to protect the car interior against burglary. These detectors, organized into system by alarm central unit protect car interior very good. Their disadvantage is lack of so called peripheral protection - they do not monitor what is outside the car's interior - they do not protect against raising the car to steal alloy rims or towing the to the place where the car will be "disintegrated" into parts.

IN ORDER TO TOW THE CAR AWAY, THIEF DOES NOT NEED TO OPEN THE CAR, THUS THE CONVENTIONAL ALARM CAN BE NOT TRIGGERED.

Does the shock detector prevent against towing the car away?

The construction of shock or vibration detectors commonly used in Vehicle Security Systems is very simple - they are built with a magnet mounted on strings and magnetic sensitive element or with a spring mounted piezzosensor. Thus, these detectors tend to generate false alarms, caused by wind, passing by tracks, buses and tramways, and of course weather: wind and storm. As a consequence, these sensors have lost their position on market and are used quite rarely.

How do work towing and inclination detectors present on market?

The currently used tow detectors are usually purely mechanical:

they require mounting precisely in horizontal plane,
they do not react on side-to-side roll of a car,
they can react improperly if the car is parked on a hill with initial pitch or roll.

The disadvantage of most popular inclination detectors is a fragile mechanical sensing part, causing the high number of sensor faults and improper behaviour of detector during rapid changes of temperature.

Why the GURADIAL DTS is better than its competitors?

it's the smallest towing and inclination detector in the world
it can be easily hidden in car
it has high sensitivity
it does not need the initial regulation to be carried out.
it does not need to be installed precisely in horizontal position - it should be installed in central part of car body, up to 40% against horizontal plane. The direction in horizontal plane does not affect sensitivity of the detector.
it does not react on the trucks passing by, wind, etc.
it's resistant to temperature changes

What modern technologies has been applied to design towing and inclination detector GURADIAL DTS?

The GUARDIAL DTS detector is an electronic-only device without any moving mechanical parts. It based on most up-to-date sensor measuring the gravitational acceleration /being the result of forces of gravity/. The accelerometer is built with MEMS technology /check MEMS technology link/. Such sensor guarantees high sensitivity and high reliability.

The detector incorporates a fast microcontroller, with a sophisticated vehicle body inclination monitoring algorithm implemented. The algorithm has been tested by extensive computer simulations and by experimental verification in various types of vehicles. That results in automatic sensitivity adjustment of sensor and lack of false alarms.