Need A GPS Tracker For Personal Or Business?

Why Renting One Is Better Than Buying One - Ranno Investigative Services

 
Need to protect your business assets, confirm a suspicion, or gather critical visual data? Our premier licensed Connecticut private investigation agency provides advanced, reliable GPS tracker rentals tailored to your specific investigative needs.
 
GPS tracking technology is one of the most efficient, cost-effective methods for gathering real-time location intelligence. However, deploying these devices is strictly governed by state and federal regulations. As a licensed investigator, we ensure you have access to top-tier monitoring hardware while guiding you through the essential legal frameworks required to keep your investigation lawful and your evidence admissible.
Understanding Connecticut GPS Tracking Laws
 
While renting a commercial GPS device is perfectly legal, installing or using one in the State of Connecticut carries serious legal responsibilities. Connecticut law places a very high priority on personal privacy. Unauthorized or deceptive tracking can easily cross into criminal territory if the correct protocols are not followed.
 
Before you rent a tracker from us, you must understand the primary legal boundaries:
 
    • Vehicle Ownership: In most scenarios, you cannot legally place a GPS tracker on a vehicle that you do not own or lease. If a vehicle is registered entirely in someone else’s name—including an estranged partner or ex-spouse—installing a hidden tracker without their explicit consent is illegal.
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    • Electronic Stalking Laws: Under Connecticut General Statutes § 53a-181f, using an electronic monitoring system to track another human being with the intent to harass, intimidate, or cause substantial emotional distress is classified as Electronic Stalking. In Connecticut, electronic stalking is treated with extreme severity and is prosecuted as a Class D felony.
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    • The Consent Requirement: Secretly monitoring a person’s movements without their permission is generally prohibited. To deploy a tracker legally against individuals, you must possess explicit, documented written consent, or have a legitimate legal basis, such as a direct court order.

Permitted and Lawful Uses for GPS Rentals:
Despite strict state regulations, there are several completely legal, highly productive applications for renting a GPS tracker through our agency:
 
    • Asset and Fleet Protection: Business owners have full legal authority to install GPS monitoring devices on company-owned vehicles or equipment to optimize logistics and prevent theft.
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    • Jointly Owned Property: If you are investigating a domestic issue, such as a cheating spouse, tracking may be permissible only if your name is listed on the vehicle’s title, giving you legal authority over the property. In some cases, laws may still be violated. (Check with your attorney before renting a unit and using it in this manner.)
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    • Parental Monitoring: Parents or legal guardians are legally permitted to use tracking devices to monitor the location and safety of their minor children.

Why Rent from a Licensed Private Investigator?
 
When you buy a tracker online, you leave a direct financial paper trail. More importantly, you take on massive liability if you deploy it incorrectly.
 
By partnering with our licensed firm, you get professional support:
 
    1. Legal Consultation: We review your case context during an intake meeting to confirm your tracking intent is 100% lawful.
    2. Liability Protection: We require a formal contract verifying that you acknowledge Connecticut tracking statutes, keeping you safe from accidental legal infractions.
    3. Elite Technology: Our rental inventory features industrial-grade battery life, precise real-time mapping, and geofencing capabilities that far outperform retail consumer tracking tags.

Contact our office today to discuss your situation and discover how we can help you uncover the truth safely, legally, and discreetly.

 

QUESTIONS:

Clients often ask me, “Can I buy a GPS Tracker without my name attached to it?”

The answer is no. Whether you realize it or not, you can’t just “purchase” a GPS tracker without leaving a trace that you bought the unit. All GPS Trackers have to be registered, in order to connect to a satellite, and a credit card must be provided for billing and identification purposes.

During a free consultation with Investigator Ranno at Ranno Investigative Services, the matter will be discussed in order to determined if a GPS Rental is legal for you. If it is legal, Ranno Investigative Services can rent you a GPS Tracker. That tracker will not be in your name, it will be under Ranno Investigative Services. A contract will be signed acknowledging that you understand the current laws and will strictly follow them. That assures that you can safely rent and use our GPS Tracker without the fear of arrest.

Contact us today to discuss your situation and how Ranno Investigative Services can help.

Whether you realize it or not, you can’t just “purchase” a GPS tracker without leaving a trace that you bought the unit. All GPS units have to be registered and a credit card provided for billing and identification purposes with the company that owns the server and provides the service.

Also, not all GPS Tracking Systems are the same. While many GPS trackers may look the same and some may even cost less than others, they don’t always work the same way. When you purchase your own unit and register it for use, the monthly monitoring service that you pay for, which your tracker is specifically programmed to work with, may not provide you multiple methods for determining and reporting tracking location data.

Any GPS TRACKER will attempt to obtain a GPS reading from at least three orbiting GPS satellites. If successful, the tracker will transmit that information to a computer server, which will display it on an online web-based portal with mapping software. However, should the tracking device be located in a building, parking structure or perhaps under metal where it does not “see the sky”, it may be unable to determine its current location.

This information will be unknown to you until you purchase the unit, register it and use it for the first time. Once you do that, it will not be able to be returned and you will lose your money.

Why Rent A GPS Tracker?

  • A tracker makes an investigation more cost effective for clients
  • A GPS Tracker monitors activities of the vehicle constantly
  • 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, you have a personal investigator

You can view the GPS Tracker from any electronic device, such as:

  • Cell Phone (iPhone / Android)
  • Tablet (Apple / Others)
  • Computer (Any)

Why Rent A GPS Tracker?

  • Cost Effective
  • A Tracker Monitors Activity
  • 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

You can view the Tracker from any electronic device, such as:

  • Cell Phone
  • Tablet
  • Computer

About Our GPS Trackers:

Serving Hartford County, Middlesex County, Fairfield County, Litchfield County, Tolland County, Fairfield County, New Haven County, New London County and the entire State of Connecticut

At Ranno Investigative Services, our rented GPS Tracking Devices, don’t just provide simple GPS Tracking. Our trackers provide up to a total of three months of uninterupted use, depending on the amount of driving from the subject. This allows you to keep the unit on the vehicle longer wihtout having to remove it every couple of days to recharge it. This lessens the chances of you getting caught.

Our trackers also provide full and accurate location data /  triangulation, using cellular technology. (Advanced Forward Link Triangulation (AFLT). This allows for a smoother, more accurate, accounting of where the tracker is located. 

Ranno Investigative Service’s GPS Tracking software can be downloaded as an app or used on your computer. It requires no installation and can be accessed from any PC, MAC, Smartphone, Tablet, or iPAD, and observed from anywhere in the world. Ranno Investigative Services will provide you a direct link to your personal GPS Tracker and once clicked, it will bring you directly to where your device is Real-Time. It also stores all previous information so you can go back days or weeks if needed to see where the vehicle was then and now. Making this an incredible investigative tool. 

Ranno Investigative Services has been working with GPS Tracking devices for over 20 years, making us experts in the field. We provide the highest quality tracking devices the industry offers, at reasonable rates. In addition to our state-of-the-art online web-based tracking system, our real world experience provides unique perspectives on how you, our client, can best utilize the tracker to accomplish your goals, legally. The GPS Tracker, combined with an investigation, captures what the subject is doing once detected at a location they should not be, which provides you with the evidence you need for your case. 

At Ranno Investigative Services, our rental GPS TRACKING DEVICES, don’t just provide GPS Tracking. Our Rental GPS Systems provides that total of three methods for determining and reporting tracking location data. The server company we are contracting and paying for provides you with the most updated and accurate information the industry offers.

Our GPS Tracking System provides also location data using both the GPS along with cellular technology, which we have programmed to provide for cell tower triangulation or Advanced Forward Link Triangulation (AFLT). While it is usually necessary to connect with three cell towers for the most accurate cellular location data, should this not be possible, location data at that moment will be provided from the nearest cell, which we have programmed as our third method of reporting location data. This way you are ensured that you are getting the most accurate reporting.

Ranno Investigative Service’s Rental GPS Tracking software requires no installation and can be accessed from any PC, MAC, smartphone, tablet, or iPAD. We provide you a direct link to your GPS Tracker and once clicked, it will bring you directly to where your device is currently. It also stores all information so you can go back days or weeks if needed to see where the vehicle was then and now.

Ranno Investigative Services is an unique company with deep roots in the executive protection, surveillance and investigation fields. Our company is staffed with both licensed and trained private investigators. We are proud of the fact that we provide the highest quality tracking devices, the industry offers at reasonable rates, in addition to our state-of-the-art online web-based tracking system. But equally important, our real world experience provides unique perspectives on how you, our client, can best use the trackers to accomplish your goals, legally.

The best part is, once you’ve accomplished your goal or have obtained your evidence, you can just return the unit to us with no trace that you had ever rented it.