QZ View is the part of QZ that watches your vehicle's power and its last position. It does not recognise theft and we do not claim it does. We say only what we can measure: interrupted power, the last known position, and whether the unit is still reporting.
When it's you moving the car, you acknowledge the alert and QZ does not come back to it.
If the car is gone, recovery mode asks the unit to report its position every minute instead of every three while it is moving, and a point every hundred metres. While it stands still, it reports as usual. It takes effect the next time the unit reports.
An underground garage usually has no GPS signal. Mobile coverage is usually there — then the alert arrives without a position, and we fill the position in when a new valid record comes from the unit. Where there is no mobile signal, the unit stores its records and sends them as soon as it finds one.
It does not recognise theft. It recognises interrupted power and a towing event reported by the unit. Whether a thief, a tow truck or you were behind it is not something we can tell.
It does not alert you to movement derived from the motion sensor. We could do it and we did, but it produced false alarms on cars that were standing still, so we switched it off. We keep measuring it and will switch it back on when it is reliable.
It does not alert you to signal jamming. If jamming cuts the unit off, no new data arrives from the car — but we do notice that it stopped reporting, and we tell you.
QZ cannot physically prevent theft.
The location history, the map and the alerts are switched on by the vehicle owner's consent. Without it we do not display a position, and when consent is withdrawn we erase the precise one — the battery assessment then needs only the approximate area the car parks in, for the outside temperature. The privacy policy sets this out in detail. QZ is not a continuous trip tracker.
The interrupted-power alert reaches you even with location features off — the position is the only thing consent gates.