A location device that you have to throw away once the batteries are dead in environnementally unacceptable in 2016.
Meaning that the ill equipped Geotraq will have to be integrated in a device that will have to be able to be recharged, either wirelessly or with a usb port.
Therefore the TOTALLY STRIPPED DOWN DEVICE will now need more gimmicks around it.
So basically it's gonna end up looking like the ITRAQ+ device, which is in its final testing stage and will start shipping in march.
Connection costs will be equivalent, and production cost about the same IMO.