SmartTrack Link
Due to the nature of my job, I often handle confidential information, and I must absolutely avoid losing my belongings.I have never lost my belongings in my life, but just in caseAnkerI introduced the loss prevention tag “Eufy Security SmartTrack Link (SmartTrack Link)” and put it in my work backpack.
The loss prevention tag is a device that tracks location information using GPS or Bluetooth connection to prevent the loss of luggage, and allows you to check the location of your luggage from your smartphone or PC.
SmartTrack Link is a loss prevention tag with a body size of about 37 x 37 x 6.5 mm, a weight of about 10 g, and a price of 2,990 yen. The maximum communication range is 80m (approximately 10-15m for indoor use), and there is a hole for attaching to a key chain.
Equipped with a function that allows you to check the location by bidirectionally ringing the smartphone and SmartTrack Link, and a “misplacement prevention function” that will notify you about 3 minutes after the SmartTrack Link leaves the Bluetooth connection range. It can be used on Android, but Apple devices support Find My.
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To use SmartTrack Link, install the dedicated app “eufy Security” on your smartphone, follow the instructions in the app to pair SmartTrack Link with your smartphone, and attach it to your belongings you don’t want to lose.
By the way, since the tag emits a fairly loud beep when pairing, it can be a little embarrassing to set it up in a quiet office, so be careful.
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You can also check the position of the tag from the “Search” app
This product is the first loss prevention tag for the author, but what I thought was a useful function after using it was that when the person who picked up the lost belonging read the QR code on the tag, the owner’s contact information It’s a “lost mode” that allows you to retrieve
Also, I don’t use it because I keep the tag in my bag, but if the tag is attached to a small item such as a key chain, the function to ring the smartphone is also convenient (because I often lose my smartphone at home). thinking.
When lost mode is turned on, you can acquire contact information by reading the QR code on the back.
While loss prevention tags are convenient in this way, they can also be abused due to their nature. For example, it can be used for monitoring purposes, such as tracking the whereabouts of a person by hiding it in someone else’s belongings. Timely, while I was writing this article, did someone track my location with a loss prevention tag? I encountered a situation that seems to be, so I would like to introduce it.
As for the circumstances, I suddenly received a notification from the “search” app while returning home on the train that “an unknown loss prevention tag was detected”. When you open the app, the route you took is displayed in red on the map, and it turns out that it seems to be sending your location information to a third party in real time.
After following the app’s instructions to stop sending location information for the time being, I tried to play a sound to search for unknown tags, but the option to play a sound did not appear.
When I open the Search app, the route I took is displayed in red on the map, and it seems that the location information was sent to a third party…
Perhaps, it was a holiday that day and I didn’t have a SmartTrack Link, and I was on the train, so the person who had the tag happened to be near me for a while, so this notification was displayed. deaf.
Appleannoying trackingAs you can see, if you’ve been carrying an unknown Find My network accessory for a while, it’s set to notify you to prevent tracking.
That said, I didn’t feel well, so before I went home, I stopped by the park and took out all my belongings from my bag and looked for the tag, but as expected, I couldn’t find it. In the end, she ended up going home in a daze.
A page about unknown tags.I should be able to play the sound of the tag by tapping “Continue” in the image, but the option did not appear
The Find My app also provides access to information such as instructions for deactivating your inventory.
It’s been two weeks since that night and luckily so far I haven’t had any problems. However, I felt more fear than I thought, and the days I spent in fear responded well.
It is highly likely that this incident was a misunderstanding on my part, but it may have been fruitful to learn how to deal with the loss prevention tag being abused. The introduction of SmartTrack Link would have been valuable to me just by being able to have such an awareness.
