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Missing boys father calls for new technology

July 21, 2011
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In a recent New York Times article, the father of Etan Patz, a boy who disappeared in 1979, called for every child to have an emergency cellphone on them at all times.

His comments came after the murder of 8-year-old boy, Leiby Kletzky, in Brooklyn last week.

Mr Patz said although the boy “had rehearsed the route [home] with his mother, he didn’t make the correct turn, then realized he was lost and had to ask for directions.”

He was never seen alive again.

With the aid of SafeKidZone this sort of tragedy could have been avoided.

A common misconception is the Panic Button is only useful in an emergency. However, it has many practical and preventative uses as well.

If for example your child get’s lost, he can hit the panic button on the phone which sends emails and text alerts to the emergency contacts along with a GPS location. It will also connect the child to a call center.

The call center can connect your child with you. Knowing exactly where he is you are able to either pick him up or direct him out of danger.

Texas Fire Chief, Randy Corbin, who recently trialled our product recognized many uses for it.

“I know from my personal experience that the most vulnerable populations are the very young and the very old. Many times these groups just need a little assistance, guidance, or reassurance, and don’t need to call 9-1-1,” he said.

“Parents and caretakers also need to know that everything is [okay] with those they are responsible for. Your system provides that.”

If you want to know more feel free to visit our Youtube site, or here at SafeKidZone.

Stay safe,
The SafeKidZone Team.

Filed Under: In the News, Safekidzone

Kid Accidentally Calls 911 on Old Cell Phone

June 13, 2011
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Toddler on Cell PhoneCute as cute can be. A precocious 2-year old kept 911 dispatchers tied up for over 10 minutes in Crawford County, AR on a cell phone that was completely shut off. One of the dispatchers was finally able to coax the little girl into handing the phone to her dad to see about putting strawberries on her ice cream. You can hear the dispatchers in action here.

The Crawford County dispatchers take almost 2,000 calls a month and getting over 20 accidental calls like this every day doesn’t make their job any easier. It seems that the only way for a parent to prevent their children from accidentally calling 911 on their old cell phones is to remove the battery. That’s right, even if the phone is turned off but still has a charged battery inside, it can still be used to call 911.

Older kids do need safety protection when you can’t be with them. SafeKidZone provides that protection anywhere, anytime without disrupting 911 emergency responders unnecessarily.

Filed Under: In the News Tagged With: 911 cell call, 911 dispatchers, emergency responders, Safekidzone, technology

911 Services Lag Behind Cell Phone Technology

May 2, 2011
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IT’S A MISTAKE TO ASSUME that because you call 911 from your cell phone, the dispatcher at the other end will know where you are – a dangerous mistake as one Army wife discovered.

“The phone rang at 4:43 am on March 27, 2007. Patty Michaels, a dispatcher at a 911 call center in Belleville, IL picked up. On the other end of the call, a woman screamed for help. She said her husband had attacked her. Michaels heard a baby crying in the background. The caller’s address appeared on Michaels’ screen: it was in O’Fallon, IL less than 10 miles away. Michaels asked the woman to confirm the location. “That’s when it got really tricky,” she says. The caller wasn’t in Illinois. She was in South Korea.

Two days earlier, the woman and her baby had left town to join her husband, an Army serviceman posted in Seoul, Korea. She was locked in her bedroom, afraid for her life. But because she had dialed 911 from a VOIP – voice over Internet protocol – service, Michaels had absolutely no way of finding her with the system. The 911 system doesn’t locate computers; it only shows the address that the phone service is registered to, and when Michaels’ caller left the country, she didn’t update her address.”

You can read the full story about the resourcefulness of this amazing dispatcher in the TIMES feature article at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2062452,00.html

We have come to assume that because our GPS-enabled phones may know exactly where we are, and because we see it every night on our favorite cop shows, that 911 will know where to send help when we call from our cell phone – or even just have it turned on. Unfortunately, television is not reality. Traditional emergency services don’t take texts, photos, Skype calls or videos either.

You see, 911 was designed for landlines and was not a very sophisticated technology. Beginning in 1968, it took 20 years for 911 to reach 50% of the US population and dispatchers couldn’t even tell where the calls were coming from! By the time this got sorted out along came the cell phone with advancements in technology far outstripping 911 technology by light years!

Enter the MobileTREC emergency cell phone application. When the user activates the MobileTREC Panic Button feature on their cell phone, a sequence of events occurs to provide the user with an immediate response. With a paid subscription, the MobileTREC state-of-the-art Call Center can accurately locate the caller even 10,000 miles away

If only that Army wife had the MobileTREC Panic Button installed, help would have arrived within moments. Sign up before you need it by clicking here - SafeKidZone or SafeTREC.com

Filed Under: In the News Tagged With: emergency, emergency dispatcher, Safekidzone, technology

MobileTREC Offers Help to Japan Assistance Organizations

March 25, 2011
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LOS ANGELES, CA – March 16, 2011 – Los Angeles-based technology company, MobileTREC, is committed to helping communities in need, and has reached out to leading organizations such as Shelter Box, Interaction, U.S. State Department, World Vision, Save the Children, Doctors Without Borders, Mercy Corps, Convoy of Hope, American Red Cross, and Salvation Army to offer its personal safety technology, SafeKidZone and SafeTREC, which can assist support and rescue efforts for teams deployed on the ground. In recognition of the hardships currently faced by the citizens of Japan, MobileTREC is offering their services free of charge.

By using the MobileTREC applications on a mobile phone, the user can trigger a sequence of coordinated events that enhance personal and public safety. Through the use of a single Panic Button feature, MobileTREC can notify relief personnel of the location and status of a person via voice, SMS, and email mapping technologies anywhere in the world.

Simultaneously, MobileTREC’s 24/7 Emergency Response Center can open an immediate conference bridge with a personalized Safety Network of emergency contacts that includes friends, family, and co-workers. The company will automatically issue an emergency alert notification to team members who are within close proximity of an emergency incident. Most importantly, should an emergency arise during rescue efforts, the MobileTREC platform enables a coordinated response, delivering comprehensive incident information thereby offering the best chance for a coordinated, immediate, and effective response.

Using the MobileTREC services, relief teams will be able to geo-define and geo-locate both safe zones and danger zones so relief personnel will have a real-time, accurate, and clear picture of the environment in which they are operating.

“We are fortunate to be living at a time of advanced technologies, when forces can be mobilized and deployed for the health and well being of people where they need it and when they need it most. It is with great pride that we offer our platform and services to relief organization’s humanitarian efforts to help save and restore lives.” said Don Ferguson, CEO MobileTREC.

Filed Under: In the News Tagged With: emergency, gps tracking, Japan disaster, Safekidzone, technology

Motorola Shop4Apps Names SafeKidZone App of the Month!

January 28, 2011
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Randy Kasar, Administrator of the Shop4Apps by Motorola Blog has named SafeKidZone the App of the Month.

SafeKidZone was one of the featured apps demonstrated at the Motorola booth in the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas – generating great excitement.  

Helping to promote SafeKidZone at the show were celebrities Matt and Froy of the TV show Operation Repo.

SafeKidZone’s service helps protects families and make them safer. Sign up today! https://login.safekidzone.com/register.php

Filed Under: In the News Tagged With: cell phone apps, motorola, motorola app of the month, shop4apps

Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011 and SafeKidZone’s Official Launch

January 5, 2011
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If ever your eyes have widened upon viewing the latest camera, MP3 player, TV, phone or what-have-you then you must familiarize yourself with CES—that is if you aren’t already aware of it.

CES is an acronym for (C)onsumer (E)lectronics (S)how and it is a yearly event, held in Las Vegas – the largest consumer electronics show on the planet – that showcases the latest and greatest technology for the year by the biggest names as well as the relatively unknown ones.

Prominent names such as Microsoft, Motorola, LG, Acer, Dell, Sony and others will flex their technological muscles at CES causing quite a few tech fans to salivate at both mouth and mind.

CES isn’t just for hardware. Software developers can also show off their beefed up programs such as apps for mobile phones and apps for the new wave of personal computers—tablets.

SafeKidZone’s safety solution will be officially launched and featured in Motorola’s own booth at CES 2011.

We will be offering a Free 30 Day Trial for the Full Feature service and having drawings for Motorola Smart Phones and other prizes. Additionally, two celebrities, Matt Burch and Froy Tercero of the show Operation Repo will at our booth advocating SafeKidZone with their own performances demonstrating the use of the service.

They will also be giving out a limited number of autographed posters and shirts to lucky visitors.

The CES 2011 show has huge audiences. CES 2010 had over 100,000 attendees but this year must be a show-stopper with a whopping 150,000 people signed up to attend this huge event.

SafeKidZone’s goal is to get it’s service on every child’s cell phone so they can have the safety and protection they need in time of emergency. The CES 2011 will be a great start towards this.

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911: “Why are you asking so many questions?”

November 30, 2010
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“Why are you asking so many questions? When are you going to send help? Can’t you tell where I’m calling from?”

Tampa Bay’s 911 managers hear those questions all the time. Their advice: stay as calm and patient as possible, listen carefully and keep answering all those questions.

This is from a recent news article in the St. Petersburg Times, an area just south of Tampa Bay, Florida.

This is exactly what often happens when a person experiencing an emergency decides to call 911 for help.

911 operators must determine several things. Paramedics, for example, can’t treat a victim of an attack until police secure the scene. And police need to know where the suspects are and if they’re armed.

With SafeKidZone, a real-time log is kept of what is going on in the emergency situation. This effectively enhances emergency management.

The St. Pete Times article also states that 911 systems can determine cell phone coordinates. This is not accurate. If you look at our earlier blog – accurately locating 911 calls, a person called 911 and a location was determined. However, it was actually the location of the cell phone tower 1.3 miles away! With SafeKidZone, our Global Positioning Satellite system can be as accurate as finding a 2 yard radius around the phone.

An emergency safety profile is also delivered by SafeKidZone to the 911 operators so that you can be identified quickly. The safety profile also contains any medical conditions you may have that could potentially affect your medical administration.

SafeKidZone provides the answers that 911 ask to do their job.

SafeKidZone revolutionizes the 911 response.

Filed Under: In the News Tagged With: 911 cell call, cell coverage, emergency, gps tracking, how to use 911, news, Safekidzone, technology

Can You Get an Accurate Location With 911 Cell Calls?

November 5, 2010
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911 cell calls, 911 tracking, 911 dispatchersCalgary, Alberta, Canada wants to locate 911 cell phone calls. As it reads in this article, “The city is looking to make it easier to track cell phone calls made to 911.”

The article mentions putting up signs that callers can identify and read off to the emergency dispatcher to help locate the callers. There are quite a few locations in that town that have issues with 911 tracking where callers are located.

Even when 911 Dispatchers are able to locate you, the radius with which your location is determined can be over a mile. This happened in Memphis, Tennessee and can be observed in this short video. A 911 call was made about a crime and the coordinates were determined but the operators found the location to be out of their jurisdiction. When police arrived much later on the scene, the coordinates were a cell phone tower that was 1.3 miles away from where the body was located.

Such an instance is not acceptable to anybody when an emergency is occurring to them. We at SafeKidZone have the solution. Our service uses the accurate GPS in your smart phone to quickly and accurately locate you when an emergency arises.

To sign up for free, click HERE!

Filed Under: In the News Tagged With: 911 cell call, 911 dispatchers, cell coverage, emergency, GPS, gps tracking, Safekidzone, technology

Child Calls 911 400 Times

October 12, 2010
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From up in the northern neck of the woods we have this story about a 4-year-old boy that tied up 911 lines in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada. Click HERE for the link to the article. Little Alex didn’t know how serious a problem tying up 911 is but here’s hoping that his affinity for dialing 911 will one day turn into a career as a safety specialist!

Child calls 911 400 times - SafeKidZone

Teach the kids to call 911 but watch the tikes!

In the mean time why not speak to one of our safety specialists at our 27×7 call center? One really great thing about having such a call center when you’re a MobileTREC SafeKidZone member is that along with all the advanced location technology at your fingertips, the call center can act as a “check-in point” for incoming emergency calls. Because our advanced technology actually saves time in contacting 911 and getting help we enjoy the luxury of being able to screen calls before sending them to 911 with still lots of time to spare since in a real emergency we can send your location and vitals to police, ambulance or fire – saving time by giving them all the information it would have taken you time to explain!

Give your kids the power to call 911 in an emergency but rest assured that we have you covered and are working to help 911 be ready to act when the real emergency hits!

Click HERE to sign up!

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Filed Under: In the News Tagged With: 911 cell call, child calls 911 400 times, emergency, family safety, gps tracking, MSN news, safekidszone, Safekidzone

Symbian phones losing support

October 1, 2010
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Symbian losing support, Mashable, safekidzoneYou may be asking yourself, “what’s a Symbian?” Well, if you have a non-smartphone, chances are that Symbian is the software that makes your phone work. So your Motorola Krazr, Nokia phone, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG phone etc most likely is a Symbian phone.

Although Symbian does work for smartphones too in pockets the more ubiquitous smartphone operating systems are BlackBerry OS (RIM), Android (Google), and iPhoneOS (Apple).

According to this article from Mashable Samsung will be terminating its support for Symbian devices. That’s a big loss in support for Symbian since Samsung is a major cellphone manufacturer, however the fact remains that abour 41% of the overall population of cell phone users have a Symbian phone.

MobileTREC SafeKidZone took this into account when we created our Mobile Personal Security Solution so we made sure that SafeKidZone supports Symbian. Symbian users are able to enjoy most of the functionality of SafeKidZone already, with the exception of real time GPS tracking. You can still get 24×7 call center help and fill out a profile with a portrait  for 911 to get if you’re ever in trouble, so they can still find you faster as our Safety Passport still saves a lot of the time that could be taken up by having to describe how a person looks over the phone.

We think GPS is an important function for all mobile phones to have and it seems Mashable’s prediction is that smartphones with GPS are going to soon have the entire market. Consider investing in a few smartphones for you and your family and then install SafeKidZone. You’ll be glad you did.

Filed Under: In the News Tagged With: 911 cell call, android, blackberry, family safety, flip phones, GPS, gps tracking, iphone, Mashable, Safekidzone, Samsung, smartphone, Symbian
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