| 摘要 |
A security pack (20) for assisting in the recovery of stolen monies includes a housing (24) disguised as a bundle of currency bills but containing a GPS receiver (40) for receiving GPS signals from overhead satellites, a cellular phone transmitter (44), a microprocessor (46), and a battery (50). Following a bank robbery, the microprocessor activates the cellular phone transmitter to dial the telephone number of a central monitoring station. The microprocesso r obtains location data from the GPS receiver and transmits the location data, along with identification information, to the central monitoring station. Th e security pack may also include a separate, conventional RF beacon transmitte r (56) for allowing authorities to home-in on the security pack within a large building or other structure, either after the GPS signals are lost, or after the location of the security pack is localized to a specific building or are a.
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