Benefits of GPS kids tracking devices
-->GPS kids tracking devices may save your kids life.
An elementary school girl was kidnapped on her way home from school. The girl had a GPS-enabled tracking watch around her wrist. At 6PM, the girl activated her panic button and the “remote tracker” alerted the mom immediately. According to the hand held tracker the mother knew that her daughter was at a park in the same neighborhood. She immediately notified the police and drove to the park.
According to GPS data, the message was sent from a residential area that was 6 kilometers away from her house. The police and parents arrived almost simultaneously and rescued the child. Events like this support the usefulness of this new kid tracking technology, including GPS and active RFID (Radio-frequency identification). From a child’s perspective, GPS and/or active RFID tags make their lives safe.
Some might argue that GPS kids watches are an excuse for parents to neglect looking after their child and that the GPS kids watch instead will be used as a nanny and indeed I guess that is a possibility. Some parents might take the approach that they do not need to look after their or talk to their child, when in fact that is excatly what they should.
Other critical voices are quick to draw references to Orwels “1984″ Big Brother society, stating that the GPS kids watch is a violation of the child’s integrity and personal freedom. Again this is a valid point, but wearing a GPS kids watch might just to help prevent child abduction or wandering lost children.
Some GPS kids devices can be worn as a watch, where the child actively has to press a panic button, which will then alert the parents. Other devices can be activated by the parents with a phone call or text message to the device, which will the “answer” with the exact location of the device.
The best child locator I’ve come across is the
BrickHouse Child Locator with Wander Alerts
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GPS works great for tracking kids especially on vacation or in big areas like a park. I got mine from brickhousesecurity.com and it really makes me feel better knowing I’ll know where my kids are at all times.