Three Tracking Technology Stocks -- How They Save Lives and Recover What's Important

Gopher Protocol, Semtech Corp. and Globalstar Inc.

POINT ROBERTS, WA--(Marketwired - April 24, 2017) - Investorideas.com, a global news source covering the tech sector, releases a sector close up on tracking devices and GPS stocks.

ABI Research forecasts that the GPS tracking device market will surpass $3.5 billion by 2019 but with new technology and applications coming to market, that number may be on the rise.

From tracking your cars, your phones, your pets, loved ones and the things you love -- the tracking device market is changing lives.

Recent tracking device companies in the news include Gopher Protocol (OTCQB: GOPH), Semtech Corporation (quote) and Globalstar, Inc. (quote).

In a recent interview, Danny Rittman CTO of Gopher Protocol Inc. (OTCQB: GOPH), a development-stage company specializing in real-time, heuristic-based, mobile technologies, talked about how their technology can potentially save lives.

Their tracking technology is now at the core of two products about to come to market: Guardian Patch and Guardian Orb Pet Tracker.

On April 11^th the Company announced a successful field test in the Bay area with the Guardian Orb Pet Tracker.

Here is the interview: http://www.investorideas.com/Audio/Podcasts/040417-GOPH.mp3

On April 19^th Semtech Corporation (quote), a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, announced that Maxtrack, a leader in vehicle tracker manufacturing has chosen Semtech's LoRa® devices and wireless RF technology as the main platform for its tracking solution that helps recover stolen vehicles and cargo.

The tracking system has been introduced in metropolitan areas of Brazil where LoRaWAN™ networks are currently being deployed. The aftermarket tracking solution is currently a preferred technology for insurance companies to recover vehicles as they plan implementation in mid-2017.

SPOT, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Globalstar, Inc. (quote) and a leader in satellite messaging and emergency notification technologies, just announced that its SPOT family of products has surpassed a milestone of initiating 5,000 rescues around the world since its launch in 2007. These rescues have taken place on six continents and in over 89 countries.

Recent rescue Connor Gallagher was solo hiking in Colorado at an elevation of 11,000' and activated the S.O.S. button on his SPOT Gen3 device when he began to see the early signs of hypothermia.