OBD GPS Car Tracker, Hidden Vehicle Tracker and Monitoring System with Real Time Location GPS Reports, For Auto, Adults, Fleet, Parents, Teen, Elderly, 4G with Phone App

My 90 year old mother-in-law still drives. Yikes! She does not use a smart phone, so I needed a way to monitor and track her driving. After researching extensively, I chose the MotoSafety OBD Tracker. Although the device is used primarily for fleet usage and teenage driver applications, it seemed like the device could serve the purpose of monitoring an elderly driver and providing theft monitoring as well. I have been using the device for a month.Installation is purely simple. Just plug the device directly into the OBD (Onboard Diagnostic) port under the dash on the driver's side. As soon as the key is turned on, the unit powers up and begins its search for a GPS signal. There are apps available for both Apple and Android devices, as well as a direct link website for other type browser use. The sign up is easily accomplished with an email address. The actual setup is best done through the website rather than the app.Once the account is setup, the Tracker will show the current or last position of the tracker. It will record the actual track of the automobile that can be reviewed later. The track not only shows the routing taken, but will give stop points, how long the vehicle remained at a location, and the address of that location. Other useful features include geo-fencing, speed reporting, heavy braking/acceleration, time period usage and maintenance reporting.Since the Tracker specializes as a Teen Driving monitor, one can use geo-fencing to literally outline on a map an area that the car can be driven. The time period can be set to insure that a curfew is met. The heavy braking/acceleration can monitor not only good driving habits but can be used to alert for a sudden stop that might indicate an accident. The Tracker does not use air bag deployment but relies upon sophisticated algorithms to record acceleration/deceleration rates. Maintenance reporting shows current battery voltage, and fuel quantity on some newer vehicles. Apparently, engine trouble codes would be recorded, but I have not observed this feature.My primary concern was knowing when the car was being operated and the area where it is being used. The alert features helped to provide this info but required a work around. Normally, a parent would set up a time period that the car could be used and if the teenager was out after that time, an alert would be sent to the parents' phone, email, or both. Obviously, an elderly driver monitoring alert would require just the opposite information. On another review, I read that a daughter had set an authorized time period for her dad that she was sure he would not be driving, ie, 1am -3am. Any usage outside that time period would trigger an alert showing the car was being operated. The only small glitch is the actual alert shows as an Unauthorized Use alert when set up in this manner. If any other person is designated to receive alerts, they need to know how the alert works. Obviously, an alert showing usage outside a designated area would be highly valuable for a driver who becomes disoriented or confused while driving.A couple of other useful alerts are Idle and Tamper. A default time of 5 minutes of Idle time is initially set. If the car is On but idling for longer, an alert is sent. I find this feature to be especially helpful for an elderly driver in case of fatigue or incapacitation. The Tamper alert is triggered when the device is removed from the port. I have read that this alert can be triggered if the device is not securely positioned in the port. I have not had this issue.The purchase price through Agilis Systems was $24.99 through Amazon. A monthly monitoring fee through MotoSafety is $19.99. So far I am well pleased with the design, function, and usability of the device, the app, website, and customer support of Agilis. I highly recommend the device for anyone with teen or elderly drivers.

This is more of a public notification rather than a personal review. The software and system itself I am sure works very well and when we first got the device set up we were very pleased with it.We purchased this device for our daughter to put into her car so we could track her for safety, receive a discount on our car insurance, and to ensure that she was properly servicing the vehicle as she was supposed to do.Her car is a 2007 Mercedes Benz E500. When we first connected the device it did not track. We went through the process to contact customer support. It took a couple of days to get a customer support agent on chat but they were able to resolve the issue within 30 min by sending a reset to the device. From there it tracked the car fine, with the sole exception of the fuel which it couldn't pick up from the OBD port.However, 2 1/2 weeks later while I was with my daughter in the car, thankfully, the car started going haywire. The cooling fan went to full speed, even though the car wasn't overheating, the headlights and taillights came on and wouldn't shut off, the transmission wouldn't lock out and was staying in gear, the SRS system, EPS system and brakes all threw failure alerts and the infotainment system stopped functioning. We had the car towed to a Mercedes service center and they quickly diagnosed the issue as being the tracker sending signals to the cars ECM. The technician even brought me in and showed me this by connecting the tracker which caused the car to immediately flip out then unplug it and the issues immediately stopped. However, due to the signals the tracker had sent to the ECM, the dealership had to reset the module and the infotainment system to get them to clear the errors and to function again. That cost $275.00 plus the tow bill.We contacted customer support and like before it took a few days to get them to respond. After we did, they said it could be fixed by having a reset sent to the tracker. They asked us to plug it back into the car but not to turn the car on. We did so and immediately it began sending signals to the car and the exact same issues started happening without the keys in the ignition. They went through 4 attempts to reset the system and each time the issues would stop during the devices reboot then they would come back on with additional problems. Some issues that surfaced during their testing of the device included the car attempting to start without the key in the ignition, the hazard lights coming on, the interior lights flashing, the dashboard display coming on and misreading temperature and fuel levels as well as the cars self leveling system freaking out and the air compressor pumping the shocks to the max. After 25 minutes of this going on and the support team just telling me that it would take a little longer since the device kept reverting back to its prior update, I finally disconnected the device before more damage was done to the car.I had the subscription cancelled and we are returning the device. Additionally, the car is once again back at the dealership to have the signals erased on the ECM to clear the error messages that the device caused.Although this device may work well with some cars, at least with the heavily tech based Mercedes I would not apply this device to the car as it is not a compatible device. MotoSafety support concluded this and suggested we rather purchase the hard wired version for the car but we refused to consider that option.Personally speaking, I am leery on a device that has that kind of power to affect so many critical items. The purpose of the tracker in the car is to keep my child safe. If the device has the capacity to disable the braking system, restraint system, shut down the transmission, and potentially cause ignition failure among other things, then it does the exact opposite of what we wanted it to do and puts a novice driver at a much higher risk of having a serious accident.Again, the device may work well with other car models and some users may never experience what we did and I truly hope that is the case. We will continue to look for a viable tracking system for her car to keep her safe behind the wheel but it unfortunately won't be this device.