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| GPS Tracking technology for locating your Child |
| By A.B |
Wherify GPS Personal Locator for Kids is the first implementation of a well-conceived service that lets parents locate, track, and communicate with their children via a bulky, 4.2-ounce wristwatch with integrated GPS and wireless radio.
When your child is wearing the Locator, you can determine his whereabouts via a Web- or cell phone-based service and call 911 if necessary.
Hop-on, Inc. plans to launch today at CES 2006 in Las Vegas a GPS tracking cell phone for children that kids wear like a wristwatch.
Called the Chitter Chatter phone, the device costs less than $50. A true cell phone tracking technology.
A feature called "Track-Me!" enables children to send the address of their locations to their parents' cell phones via SMS with the push of a button.
Parents can track their children by sending an SMS message to their child's phone.
The parents will receive the address of the child's location. The location can also be tracked over the Internet. Now that’s great cell phone tracking for locating anyone.
Kids can easily contact parents using the "Mom," "Dad" and "Home" speed-dial keys. Parents can also control who can call the phone and whom their kids can call using seven parent-programmed numbers.
Hop-on's Chitter Chatter phone offers easy activation and set-up for cell phone tracking, according to the company. Customer service will be offered online and through live operators.
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SIDSA PERSONAL LOCATOR:
This device is the size of a deck of playing cards. It can be easily put in a pocket or handbag. This product is used primarily for Alzheimer's disease patients.
The device is comprised of a small battery-powered GPS locator that is carried by the Alzheimer sufferer whenever he or she ventures out-of-doors.
By a combination of GPS and GSM technology, this locator is a permanent contact with a central tracking station. The tracking station can keep track of a large number of GPS locators, each of which is programmed with a permitted geographic area, and the duration of the excursion.
If the person being monitored strays outside his or her permitted area, or stays away from home longer than the permitted time, an alert is sounded, and the person can be retrieved.
SIDSA sells the SPL technology (device and control center), but the service requires a Medical Call Center to manage it. SIDSA has developed the technology but is not a service provider. This device has to be set up with a local wireless service provider that you can find in your area. SIDSA only provides the GPS device and the Tracking technology. The locator sells for $595, plus monthly fees
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ULOCATE:
These phones allow parents to track the location of their child's cell phone, and allows them to see (either directly on their own cell phone or via a secure GPS Web site) their child's exact current location via a Mapquest map.
Parents can program the service to notify them immediately as their child arrives at a location (school, home, sports center, etc.) or leaves an area (neighborhood, town, etc.) that they've defined.
They can even review past locations visited. ULocate's platform takes advantage of cell phones that can establish and transmit latitude and longitude using the government's Global Positioning System (GPS). Currently, they support the Motorola i730, i88s and i58sr on the Nextel network and all models of the Benefon on the T-Mobile, AT&T, and Cingular networks.
Additional phones and carriers will be supported as they become GPS compatible.
ULocate is offering their service *free* now through 2003 as part of its official launch. You just need to go to their Web site to sign up.
In 2004, the rates will be as follows:
-$12.95 per month for the first phone and $9.95 per month for each additional phone through five, $7.95 for the sixth phone. There are no set up charges. Rates are national. They do not vary by location. And on top of this price, you'll also need a cell phone carrier --
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