Ideal Systems × Spotguard
An invisible radio beacon in your car, boat or machinery. When thieves silence GPS, Spotguard keeps transmitting, and a search team finds it.
Today’s vehicle thieves are professionals. They bypass alarms, jam GPS, swap the plates and have the car out of the country within hours. Spotguard is the one thing they can’t silence.
How it works
A theft in Teika and nine kilometres of night streets to the port. Here is why it ends differently when the car carries Spotguard.
02:14
Professionals need only minutes, and they don’t need your key.
02:16
GPS and GSM are drowned out. An ordinary tracker goes blind and mute, and all the map keeps is the spot where it went quiet.
02:31
It runs on its own battery, independent of the car’s electronics. Its radio beacon keeps sending a signal that dedicated receivers pick up.
04:50
The operations centre in Norway coordinates the team. Receivers in a search car and a drone each take a bearing on the signal. Where the bearings cross, that’s the car.
06:05
The car is found in a container at the port, before it can leave the country. The police return it to its owner.
Illustrative scenario based on real Spotguard search operations. The route follows real streets in Riga.
Try it yourself
It’s exactly what thieves do. Watch what happens to each signal.
Satellites fix the position.
The mobile network sends the position to the app.
An independent radio signal that searchers pick up on site.
All signals are up. Now switch on the jammer.GPS and GSM fall silent, so an ordinary tracker stops reporting. Spotguard’s radio beacon keeps transmitting, and the search team finds it.
Spotguard Plus 4G
Spotguard Plus 4G sleeps unnoticed for years. And wakes exactly when it’s needed.
Illustration. The internal layout is simplified.
Up to 5 years
on one battery, reporting once a day
7200 mAh
lithium battery
0 wires
it isn’t connected to the vehicle
IP67
dust- and water-resistant
115 g
weight
82 × 80 × 22 mm
smaller than your palm
−20 to +60 °C
operating temperature
4 GNSS
satellite systems
Specifications: GS Fleet Spotguard Plus 4G technical datasheet. Battery life depends on reporting interval and temperature.
On a single battery, reporting once a day. Nothing to charge, nothing to wire.
It isn’t connected to the vehicle’s electrics, so cutting wires or removing the car battery won’t stop it.
Dust- and water-resistant. Works from −20 °C to +60 °C.
Smaller than your palm, so it hides almost anywhere.
GPS, Galileo, GLONASS and BeiDou, plus 4G LTE-M with 2G fallback.
The built-in G-sensor can report the moment the vehicle starts to move.
With no wiring needed, it can go where a thief won’t think to look.
Illustration
Specifications: GS Fleet Spotguard Plus 4G technical datasheet. Battery life depends on reporting interval and temperature.
MINI
MINI shows where your vehicle is in real time, along with every trip: route, distance and speed.
Plans
Prices are per year. One-time installation: €90.
GPS tracking for every day
€157per year
Follow your vehicle’s location in real time and always know where it is.
Choose MINIProfessional theft recovery
€194per year
A radio search device that gets a stolen asset found and brought back.
Choose SPOTGUARDMINI + SPOTGUARD
Most complete
€234per year
Everyday GPS visibility plus professional recovery if it’s ever stolen. In one plan. €117 a year less than both plans separately.
Choose TOTALGUARDNot sure which plan fits? Ask us and we’ll help you choose.
Cases
Four cases from GS Fleet’s search reports, with the real photos. Pick a case to see where the car was stolen and where it was found.
September 2024 · Sweden
Between 7 and 10 September, four stolen Land Rover Range Rovers were recovered, three of them on false plates. A Lithuanian-registered truck was stopped at the Swedish port of Kapellskär. One of the cars had no tracker. It was found thanks to the Spotguard in another of the stolen cars.
June 2024 · Sweden
A RAM 1500 TRX stolen in Märsta on 31 May went silent for four days, most likely because of a GSM jammer. When the tracker reported in again, police chased it along a highway in Stockholm. GS Fleet told the police to look for a truck, not a car. The pickup was found inside a Latvian-registered truck, along with a second stolen RAM that had no tracker.
September 2024 · Sweden → Netherlands
A 2019 BMW X5 stolen in Löddeköpinge, in southern Sweden, was found in Almere in the Netherlands. It was inside a Peugeot Expert van, already stripped for parts.
September 2023 · Sweden
A 2015 Range Rover Sport stolen in Bromma was found inside a shipping container. Police kept the container under covert watch, and a few days later a second Range Rover was put inside. Both were recovered.
Spotguard and GS Fleet figures since 1992.
What it protects
Spotguard can be fitted to all kinds of moving assets. From the family car to an outboard motor or a tractor.
Cars
Boats and motorboats
Outboard motors
Farm machinery
ATVs
Construction machinery
Motorcycles
Trailers and caravans
And other valuable things that move. Ask us
Partners & recognition
Ideal Systems works closely with GS Fleet. For more than 30 years it has been finding and recovering stolen assets across Europe and Scandinavia.
Photo: GS Fleet
GS Fleet. Headquartered in Norway, where every search operation is coordinated, including those in Latvia. GS Fleet makes the Spotguard devices in-house.
Recognised by insurers. Spotguard is a security system recognised by leading insurers. Mention it when you buy a CASCO policy.
Anti Theft Association. Spotguard is a product approved by the international Anti Theft Association.
Didn’t find your answer? Write to us
Spotguard isn’t connected to the vehicle’s electrical system and runs on its own battery, so cutting wires or disconnecting the car battery won’t stop it. A jammer can block the GSM signal for a while, but it can’t hide the radio waves: a search team with a receiver picks them up on site.
A GPS tracker (MINI) shows where your vehicle is and is handy every day. Spotguard is built for theft: it adds a radio-frequency transmitter, its own battery and an international search service with teams on the ground. TOTALGUARD combines both.
The Spotguard Plus 4G battery lasts up to 5 years when the device reports once a day. More frequent reporting or low temperatures shorten that.
The international search service is included in the price. Searches are coordinated by GS Fleet’s operations centre in Norway and run across Europe and Scandinavia.
Yes. Spotguard is recognised by leading insurers, and you can declare it when buying a CASCO policy. Ask your insurer about the specific terms.
Plans are billed yearly and cover the services listed. For SPOTGUARD and TOTALGUARD that includes the international search service. Installation is a one-time €90.
Contact
Leave your details and we’ll get back to you. We’ll help you choose the right plan and arrange installation.
Or write to us: edijs.smolenskis@idealsystems.lv
