Posts Tagged ‘gps device’
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Below are some alarming statistics from the Center to Prevent Lost Children, based out of Boston. http://www.preventinglostchildren.org/
- Over 2000 U.S. kids get lost every day.1
- Less than 10% are reported to any authority.2
- Approximately 100 U.S. kids are stereotypically kidnapped by strangers each year.1
- 90% of families will experience losing a child in a public place.
- 20% have lost a child more than once.2
- 7 out of 10 kids get lost at least once in their lives.2
- 95% will forever remember the trauma of getting lost.2
- Parents rank losing a child 5 times more concerning to them than terrorism and 3 times more concerning than abduction.2
- Kids get lost most often in malls and stores (45%)2
- 27% of families that visit an amusement park lose a child while they are there.3
- Only 9% of parents put some form of safe ID on their children.2
- 76% of parents want to know what to do to prevent a child from getting lost.2
Sources:
1: Source = NISMART2: National Incident Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway Children. U.S. Department of Justice. October 2002.
2: Source = Wander Wear Inc. parent survey, September 2006.
3: Source = IntiMetrix study, 2002.
For the 76% of parents who want to know what to do to prevent their child from getting lost I say look no further than the sentryGPSid personal location device! It’s the smallest, most intelligent, and most cost effective GPS tracking device and web portal combination on the market today. With the sentryGPSid you can know before your loved one wanders!
Tags: autism gps, child, child locator, gps, gps device, GPS Devices for Children, gps location device, gps personal location device, gps tracking, kids, missing child, personal locator device, safety
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
So you already bought your GPS device from another vendor, and now you’ve found out how over priced their service plans are. This is not an uncommon problem, and sentryGPSid can help.
If you haven’t activated your service through a separate vendor as of yet, we can have your SIM card activated for no charge to you. You will have access to our webportal and your choice of our affordable tracking plans.
If you have activated your service with another provider, you will first have to cancel your service with them and most likely purchase and activate a new SIM card through sentryGPSid. We can then activate your GPS device and the service plan of your choice.
No more need to be stuck in an over-priced GPS service plan with less features than what the sentryGPSid web portal provides!
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
Starting Monday April 20th, 2009, Sentry Technologies will be providing the opportunity to rent a GPS location device for only $7.50 per day. What a great way to try out the device, or to protect your children during your family vacation!
When you rent a sentryGPSid GPS location device, you’ll have access to our web portal to track your GPS device, as well as the ability to manually ping the GPS device via text message in order to obtain it’s location.
Find out more
Tags: gps, gps device, GPS Devices for Adults, GPS Devices for Children, gps location device, gps tracking
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
The sentryGPSid now offers users three service levels and pricing plans to choose from; Basic ($11/month), Premium ($19/month) and Unlimited ($40/month).
The Basic Service Plan
The Basic Service Plan is the most economical of the sentryGPSid service plans, and is meant for emergency location of the device only. With this plan, there are no regular updates to the GPS web portal but the user is allowed 10 manual location ‘pings’ per month. A ‘ping’ is any time the user texts the device to obtain it’s location, or users the Get Current Position or Urgent Tracking Mode through the web portal.
The Premium Service Plan
The Premium Service Plan is the most popular service plan and includes automatic updates of the GPS tracking device’s location to the web portal every 30 minutes, as well as an additional 50 manual pings per month for the user.
The Unlimited Service Plan
The Unlimited Service Plan is the choice of those who want to be able to track and monitor their device at all times, with no limitations. The Unlimited Service Plan includes automatic updates of the GPS tracking device’s location to the web portal every 15 minutes, as well as unlimited manual pings each month.
For a comparison chart of the different service plans, click below:
GPS Tracking Device Service Plan Comparison
To order yours sentryGPSid GPS tracking device today, click below:
Order Your sentryGPSid GPS Tracking Device
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
Now you can add, edit and delete additional user accounts to view your GPS portal and to receive alerts and notifications about your GPS device.
To do so, simply log in to you GPS web portal, and scroll to the bottom of the Live Tracking screen to the My Users and Groups section.
To create a GPS portal user, click on New and then enter the appropriate information and click Save.
Tags: gps, gps device, gps location device, gps tracking
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
How fast is one mile per minute? Well the obvious answer is 60 miles per hour, but let’s look at a graphical representation of exactly how fast 1 mile per minute really is:
A Missing Child Can Disappear At 1 Mile Per Minute
Click on the image for a larger version and you will see 12 concentric circles based around Lincoln, Nebraska. The inner most circle represents just how far a missing child can disappear in 1 hour. Each additional circle represents an additional hour, with the outer most circle representing only 12 hours. That’s 720 miles.
Even 1 mile is well out of the range of any RFID based child location system on the market today, in fact most of them do not even have a range of more than 600 feet – that’s just 2 football fields. At 1 mile (5280 feet) a minute (60 seconds), a missing child could be out of range of any of these RFID based child location systems in just 8.8 seconds (5280 feet / 60 seconds). So within 10 seconds of your child going missing he or she could be well outside of the range of any RFID based child location system. Just 10 seconds. And that means there’s not even an indication of which direction to start searching.
That’s why a GPS child locator is so much more effective in locating a missing child than an RFID based system. The sentryGPSid child locator is not a locally based system with a limited range. It has the ability to locate a missing child anywhere in the world, through any internet connected computer. As long as the sentryGPSid can pick up a cellular signal in order to broadcast it’s location back up to our webportal.
Additionally, not only does the sentryGPSid allow you to locate your device anywhere a cellular signal can be obtained, our geofencing technology also lets you know BEFORE your child goes missing by sending you customized alerts as soon as your child leaves their predefined safe zones. You can also send a text message to your device at any time and it will respond back it’s exact location as well as a link to a map which will show you it’s exact position.
Tags: child, child locator, geofence, gps, gps device, GPS Devices for Children, gps location device, gps tracking, kids, missing child
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Choose your GPS tracking preferences
The SentryGPS webportal allows you to customize your view of our GPS tracking map. Through the Settings option immediately below the map showing your GPS device, you can customize the following options:
- Whether or not to show the data collected from your GPS device.
- The ability to select the number of points of data to display from 1 to 50. Choosing 1 will show the latest position reported by your GPS device, while choosing more than one will show the current position along with the appropriate number of historical points of data.
- Whether or not to show visual indicators on your map which correspond to any alert information triggered by your GPS device.
- The SentryGPS webportal allows you to any geaofences you have created for your device directly on the GPS tracking map.
- You also are provided the option of showing connecting lines between points of data (if you have selected more than 1 point of data). This can be useful in helping o establish a travel pattern for your GPS device.
Tags: gps, gps device, gps location device, gps tracking, Sentry, Tech Tips
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
SentryKIDS, protecting children for over 15 years!
SentryKIDS® pioneered the digital child ID and child fingerprinting market over 15 years ago, and we continue to be lead the industry in quality, innovation, professionalism and value. With a SentryKIDS® FingerTIPS™ child ID and child fingerprinting system you can take fast, clean, digital fingerprints in a fraction of the time it takes to use the ink & paper method – and there is no messy cleanup either!
Now Sentry Technologies, the company behind the SentryKIDS® digital child fingerprinting software, is offering the most proactive approach at protecting children from wandering or getting lost – and we are doing it at the most economical price point with more features than anyone else!
sentryGPSid GPS personal location device
The sentryGPSid™ is the smallest, most intelligent and most affordable GPS personal location device on the market today. Bar none. The sentryGPSid™ has the ability to alert a parent that their child is wandering BEFORE they go missing, and in the event of the unthinkable, the sentryGPSid™ provides parents a way to track their child’s GPS device in real time through our industry leading GPS tracking web portal.
At a price of just $185 for the device, and a $19/month service fee, the sentryGPSid™ is hands-down the most affordable GPS child location device available today. Other providers will charge almost 3 times that amount for their GPS child location devices and services – and they don’t provide any additional features, while some even want to charge parents more for features we include with our GPS tracking web portal!
Tags: child, child locator, geofence, gps, gps device, GPS Devices for Children, gps location device, gps tracking, kids, SentryKIDS
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Saturday, March 14th, 2009
Stay tuned and check back often as we discuss all of the new features in depth as the update is released; but we just can’t resist giving a sneak preview of some of the enhanced functionality and features.
Here are just a few of the features v1.1b will include:
- Enhanced mapping that allows for easy viewing of the last 1 to 50 data points of each device and the ability to display the geofences right on the tracking map.
- An easy “Zoom to Device” feature – this is especially great for accounts with multiple devices.
- A Hitorical Map Portlet that now lets you visually see the travel history of a selected device on the map as well as in text. And the travel history is now exportable too!
- And my favorite – and industry first, Polygonal Geofences. This makes the SentryGPS webportal the first in the industry to not limit you to just radial geofences. We worked hard on this feature because we know not every safe or forbidden zone is a circle!
Tags: geofence, gps, gps device, gps location device, gps tracking
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
So your son or daughter is now driving on their own, but you still want to keep tabs on them when they are outside of the nest. The sentryGPSid™ is the perfect GPS device for keeping track of your teen driver both in the car and out!
The sentryGPSid™ has configurable Speed Warnings that will let you know if your child is going faster than you want them to go. You’ll immediately get a notification via text, email, or in your archived alerts to tell you they have exceeded the speed threshold you have set for them. You can also check their travel history to see where they were when they broke the speed threshold (or at anytime) and also determine for how long they were exceeding your speed threshold. And unlike some GPS device’s on the market today that are permanently mounted in one car, the sentryGPSid™ can be taken with your teen wherever he or she may go so you can even know if they are in a car going too fast when a friend is driving.
Worried that your teen may turn off his or her GPS device so you can’t monitor them? The sentryGPSid™ also allows you to set up an alert to be notified each and every time the device is powered on or off.
At just $185 for the device, and $19 per month for unlimited access to the SentryGPS web portal, the sentryGPSid™ is easily the most affordable GPS location device on the market.
Tags: gps device, gps devices for teens, gps location device, gps tracking, teen driver, teen driver gps
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