GPS trackers to keep children safe

Keep your child safe with a GPS (Global Positioning System) tracker designed to make you aware of your child’s location at all times. Different gadgets for different budgets, but they all do one thing for you – grant you peace of mind.

1. Amber Alert GPS System

The gadget features a real-time GPS tracking on a map, which transmits a location every five minutes via your smartphone or computer. It has an SOS (Save our Soul) panic button which sends text alerts to up to 10 devices, with the tracker’s street address in the text message. Two-way calling allows you to check up on your child’s surroundings without them knowing as the device does not ring.

With accessories, your child can wear it on his or her ankle, wrist or around the neck with lanyard. It also has a temperature alert, scheduled alert, one-way voice communication and a destination alert that will notify you when your child reaches specified zones. Unique feature is the predator alert. You will be alerted when the tracker is near a registered sex offender’s residence.

2. FiLIP 2

For parents with multiple children, you can create a profile for each child in the FiLIP app. You can set up to five safe zones. The smartwatch is programmed to hold five trusted phone numbers. In case of an emergency, a call is sent to the primary account holder. If there is no answer, then the next trusted number is called until the child is connected to someone.

3. Tinitell

This is a wearable phone with electronics, small enough for the whole device to be strapped to a toddler’s wrist. The design is minimal, with features limited to a microphone and speaker, an on/off switch, volume buttons and an oversized answer/hang up button. Parents can call the device directly and leave voice messages for their children. Integrated GPS and Glonass system track your kid’s location in real time.

4. LG GizmoPal

It is a wristband that provides real-time tracking via your smartphone or tablet. There is also a dedicated direct call feature, so your child can instantly get in touch with you. It is water-resistant and wearable, so you don’t have to worry about your child losing it. The style of Tobot and Hello Kitty are fun to wear for boys or girls.

5. here-O

Designed specifically for small children, it is more than half smaller in size than any other wearable tracking products in the market. The application keeps track of the entire family, which includes the mother and father. It is water-resistant and includes safe zones, panic alerta and it is half the price of its competitors. It has its own SIM (Subscriber Identification Module) card which works in over 120 countries.

Global Position System (GPS)

The Global Positioning System, also known as Navstar, is a global navigation satellite system that provides location and time information in all weather conditions, anywhere on or near the earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites. The GPS system operates independently of any telephonic or Internet reception, though these technologies can enhance the usefulness of the GPS positioning information. The GPS system provides critical positioning capabilities to military, civil, and commercial users around the world. The United States government created the system, maintains it, and makes it freely accessible to anyone with a GPS receiver.

The GPS project was launched in the United States in 1973 to overcome the limitations of previous navigation systems, integrating ideas from several predecessors, including a number of classified engineering design studies from the 1960s. The US Department of Defence  developed the system, which originally used 24 satellites. It became fully operational in 1995. Roger L. Easton, Ivan A. Getting and Bradford Parkinson of the Applied Physics Laboratory are credited with inventing it.

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