I recently changed car insurance companies and they offered that if we put these little tracking devices in our cars that they would drop our rate by up to 30% based on how we drove.
Some of the parameters it gave us for how it would determine if we could save money is:
1. Vehicles were not being operated above 70MPH (110KM/h-ish)
2. No hard braking
3. No hard accelerating
4. Commuting distances matched what we told them
With another insurance company I checked they also said with these devices they will also check if you're operating your vehicle after 1:00AM which might indicate you've been out drinking.
Apparently after 3 months they will give us a link to a website where we can track the vehicle's location as well in case it gets lost or stolen
Anyway here's the pictures. Sorry for not taking the battery out, I didn't want to "tamper" with it too much.
Modus LMU30C5S0-MDS01. I googled the LMU30C5S0 and it is sold by a number of brands, mainly used for Fleet Management and remote vehicle diagnostics. Since mine has an ESN and MDN, it must be the CDMA version which appears to all run on Sprint.
The insides, not a whole bunch to see. The battery was stuck down so tight I thought it was going to damage something removing it, so I didn't. The FCC ID indicates it's a Lisa-C200 1xRTT 144kbps CDMA modem.
http://www.u-blox.com/en/wireless-modules/cdma/lisa-c200.htmlThe LISA-C2 series provides dual-band CDMA2000 1xRTT data and voice communication in a compact SMT form factor. They are fully qualified and certified modules, featuring extremely low power consumption and a rich set of Internet protocols.
LISA-C2 modules are ideally suited to M2M and automotive applications such as: Fleet management, Automatic Meter Reading (AMR), people and asset tracking, surveillance and security and Point of Sales (PoS) terminals.
This appears to be the cellular antenna. Sprint operates CDMA over the 1900MHz band.
Side View, not much to see.
GPS Antenna:
http://www.taoglas.com/antennas/GPS-GLONASS_Antennas/Internal_GPS_-_Passive_Ceramic_Patch_Antennas/Not a very good back view, I might take this again. The Winbond chip is a 25q32fv16 4Mx8 SPI Flash.
Above that is what appears to be an ADS8326 ADC
http://www.ti.com/product/ads8326 (Well it says 8326 on it, rather)
So unfortunately the right angle boards are soldered to the pin headers so I can't peek more. I will follow up if I get better pictures, or if anyone can find another teardown with more info, I'd be interested. I suppose some of those chips I couldn't identify might be a MCU and a MEMS accellerometer.
I have a clone ELM327 OBDII code reader that I would be interested in splicing in to see if I can see what data is going to this device, apparently they can share the same bus with a splitter cable.
These tracking devices seem to be referred to as LMU-3030 as well. I have found several links for them being sold under a variety of brand names as Vechicle Trackers and Fleet Managment. The price range is 120-140 dollars.
Here's a site selling one and he explains its capabilities.
http://shop.gpstrackingtracker.com/obd-ii-gps-vehicle-tracker.html