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Monday, August 1st, 2011
Hosting some type of event or race, an open water swim or kayak race maybe? How about a bike race?
Any event that covers a long distance is an ideal candidate to use the sentryGPSid and event-based web portal to track your racers. Check out NYC Swim’s Manhattan Island Relays for an example of how our GPS tracking device can be used to track your next race event.
Or, if the event you are participating in isn’t using GPS to track the full field, rent one yourself to track your own progress and movement so all of your friends and family can watch as your progress along the course!
Contact our sales and rental office today to find out how you can rent a GPS tracking device for your next event!
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Sunday, February 13th, 2011
Sentry Location Solutions has introduced a new Unlimited Plus service option for their GPS tracking device and web portal. The Unlimited Plus GPS tracking service plan provides 5 minute standard location updates, plus unlimited manual location requests.
Find out more about the Unlimited Plus plan here: http://sentrygpsid.com/unlimited_plus_plan.php
Interested in finding out more about our GPS tracking solutions for children, adults, fleet management, asset tracking, or how they can work for your particular situation? Call our sales office at 866.825.6050, or send us an email through our online support center.
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Sunday, January 16th, 2011
sentryGPSid GPS tracking portal safe zone overview
With the sentryGPSid GPS tracking portal and our GL100 GPS personal tracking device, you can create up to five radial geofences (safe zones) per GPS tracking device. Each GPS device will always show a list of Zones 1 – 5, even if no zone is yet created. You can create your zones in any order. and can easily see which zones are active or inactive at any given time.
If you have more than 1 GPS personal location device associated with your account, you can switch between GPS location devices by utilizing the drop-down above the list of geofences.
Create and edit each of your radial geofences individually, but view all of your geofences for each device on one tracking map.
Creating a new GPS radial geofence
To create a new radial geofence for any of your GPS location device, simply follow the steps outlined below:
Step 1: Enter the address you wish to create the geofence around, then click the Go button.
Step 2: Enter the distance, and choose your unit of measure for the radius of the geofence, then click Go.
Step 3: Name your zone and click the Create Zone button.
Edit a GPS radial geofence
You can also easily edit your previously created and saved geofences for each GPS location device. Start by clicking the “edit” button located under the geofence which you would like to edit. Then edit the center of the location by using the drag-and-drop directions below, or edit the name or radius by entering the new information in the pop-up window. Then just remember to click the “Commit Zone Updates” button.
Hint: You can also deactive or delete any of your zones by clicking the corresponding button as well. (if you deactivate the zone, you won’t receive any alerts for breaches of that zone).
Recenter a GPS radial geofence
One of the unique features of our GPS tracking portal is the ability to “drag-and-drop” the center of your geofence on the setup map in order to recenter your geofence.
After entering the address for a new zone, or clicking “edit” in order to update a current zone, simply click on the red icon on the map that signifies the center of your zone, and hold the mouse cursor down. Now drag your mouse cursor to whatever location you wish for the center of the zone to be and release the mouse button. Now just re-save your zone!
Hint: If you switch the map to “Hybrid” view prior to starting the drag-and-drop process you can see the actual buildings and other geographical features to help ensure your GPS location device’s geofence is centered exactly where you want it.
Interested in finding out more about our GPS tracking solutions for children, adults, fleet management, asset tracking, or how they can work for your particular situation? Call our sales office at 866.825.6050, or send us an email through our online support center.
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Monday, January 10th, 2011
Our new GPS personal location device tracking portal has several new and expanded features, one of which is the ability to query and download your GPS device’s history by date range. Here’s how (click on the map image below to see an expanded version):
1. If you have multiple GPS devices on your account, you will see all of the GPS devices listed. The GPS device name that is faded-out is the one currently selected. To switch to view the history of a different GPS device, simply click on the button with the name of the desired GPS device. If you have only one GPS device associated with your account that GPS device will automatically be selected and you will not see this option.
2. If you want to see a certain number (5, 10, 25, 50, 100 or 200) of previous points of data from your GPS device; select the number from the drop-down and click the corresponding “Go” button.
3. If you want to see your GPS device’s history in a certain date range, select both the “from” and “to” dates and click the “View History” button. Please not the map will only show 200 points of data, starting with the most recent in the date range.
4. If you would like to export your GPS device’s history to a .csv file, you may do so by clicking on the “Download History” link. This link will download the history according to the criteria which you have selected in the previous 3 items.
Interested in finding out more about our GPS tracking solutions for children, adults, fleet management, asset tracking, or how they can work for your particular situation? Call our sales office at 866.825.6050, or send us an email through our online support center.
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Saturday, January 1st, 2011
One of the newest features of the sentryGPSid GPS tracking portal is the integration of street views for our maps. This enhanced capability allows you to see a street level view of your GPS personal location device’s location; so even if you have never been to the location you can know what the area looks like. You can also still see all of your GPS location points directly on the tracking map; the sample to the left shows an example of where an SOS alert was generated by our demo GPS personal location device.
In order to utilize this view, simply click on the orange person icon in the map navigation tool (reference the image to the right), and drag it to the desired location on the GPS tracking map. You then can pan, zoom, and “walk” down the street to any location you wish. This is a great feature for anyone using the GPS to track their kids, or an adult with Alzheimers!
Interested in finding out more about our GPS tracking solutions for children, adults, fleet management, asset tracking, or how they can work for your particular situation? Call our sales office at 866.825.6050, or send us an email through our online support center.
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Thursday, December 30th, 2010
Here at 
Sentry Location Solutions we are preparing to unveil the latest version of our easy to use GPS tracking portal. Version 2.1 of Sentry LS’ tracking portal increases ease of use for users with one device, and for those with over a hundred devices.
Not only have we redesigned both the GPS tracking history and GPS Zones pages, we’ve increased the functionality in both as well, making it even easier to create your geofences. We’ve also expanded the history functionality to allow the export of the last 200 data points and have expanded the map display to make it easier to review the data points on the map.
Vers
ion 2.1 makes the sentryGPSid GPS location devices even more effective for any GPS tracking purpose. Whether you’re looking for a GPS to track your child, your teen driver, an elderly parent, assets, or an entire fleet of vehicles, the new sentryGPSid tracking portal is the perfect solution for your needs.
Watch for the new version of our GPS portal to debut before the New Year!
Interested in finding out more about our GPS tracking solutions, or how they can work for your situation? Call our sales office at 866.825.6050, or send us an email through our online support center.
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Monday, October 18th, 2010
In addition to our standard 30-minute update GPS rental option, Sentry Location Solutions now offers a 15-minute update GPS rental option. Now you can rent a GPS tracking device with 15 minute fixed time reporting for as little as $5 per day! That’s just $1 more per day than our already industry low price for renting GPS tracking devices with 30 minute updates.
Arrange your GPS rental today, and upgrade to 15 minute updates for just $1 more per day!
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Monday, September 20th, 2010
Sentry Location Solutions, LLC has now reduced the pricing on their original GPS tracking device, the sentryGPSid SGI1000. Now you can get this personal GPS location device for the low price of just $165!
The sentryGPSid GPS device is the perfect way to track your loved ones through our proprietary online GPS tracking portal. You can use our web portal to track your GPS device from anywhere in the world where you can obtain an internet connection. As long as your GPS device has a view of the open sky and can obtain a cellular signal, you can see where you GPS device is any time of day.
Order your sentryGPSid device today for just $165.
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Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Here at Sentry Location Solutions we have lowered the cost on our Live Tracking service, which provides updates as frequently as every 5 seconds when both GPS and cellular fixes can be acquired, down to just $64.99 per month.
We’ve also increased the number of Manual Location Requests on our Basic service plan up to 30 per month, and our Unlimited service plan now includes Fixed Time Reporting every 10 minutes instead of every 15 minutes!
Tags: gps, gps device, gps location device, gps personal location device, gps tracking
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
The sentryGPSid Live Tracking plan offers users the ability to track their GPS device in real time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. All from the convenience of any internet connected computer of javascript-enabled cell phone with web browsing capabilities.
With updates from the device to the portal every 5-10 seconds, you can see your device(s) move across the screen in nearly real time. Since real-time tracking lowers battery life down to approximately one day from the normal 7-10 days, we offer a multiple faceted solution to extend the battery life. First, we offer an external battery back and case, which will allow continuous device reporting for up to 2 weeks on a full charge; and second, we have the ability to turn on “motion-only” mode on your GPS device so the device does not report back in while it is sitting still, which needlessly drains battery life. Once the device is in motion, it will automatically start reporting back to the web portal as fast as every 5 seconds.
If you are in the market for a GPS tracking solution to truly follow the device in real time, the sentryGPSid and our proprietary web portal are your ideal solution.
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