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Is the Philadelphia Cell Phone Jammer a Hero or Pest?
“While some people who use jammers may think they are only silencing loud conversations or disabling unwanted GPS tracking, they could also be preventing a scared teenager from calling 911, an elderly person from placing an urgent call to a doctor, or a rescue team from homing in on the location of a severely injured person,” Ellison said. “The price for one person’s moment of peace or privacy, could very well be the safety and well-being of others.”
Lok8u NUM8 Plus Child Locator GPS Watch uses the same pinpoint precise GPS technology used in SatNav systems and is accurate to approximately 10 feet. Lok8u has developed their own proprietary Cell ID technology which provides a quick approximate location of your child. This is then refined using GPS to achieve an accuracy of 10 feet. The benefit of using dual locating technology is that the child can still be located in instances where normal GPS technology may not be sufficient. This action is driven via a mobile phone using the texting facility or via the internet using our secure Portal.
Parents seek high-tech solutions to keep tabs on childrenLaval, Que., police say they have done all they can do to find a missing boy with autism and have ended their search and recovery mission.
Adam Benhamama, 3, has been missing since Sunday after he was last seen playing with his older sister at the home of a family friend.
Police believe he fell into the frigid waters of the Mille-Îles River, which runs just metres behind the home in the Auteuil neighbourhood of the city, north of Montreal.
The father had just stepped inside the house for a few minutes when his daughter rushed in to say that Adam was nowhere to be seen.
"We've done all we could do as far as the ground search and the river," said Laval police Const. Nathalie Lorrain.
Parents use GPS to track son with autism
Divers using sonar had searched the river for days but by nightfall on Wednesday they had come up empty-handed.
"There was no clue whatsoever, nothing has turned up — no piece of clothing, absolutely nothing," said Lorrain.
Lorrain said investigators will discuss Thursday if there is anything else they can do besides wait for the boy's body to surface.
Read more at http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2011/04/07/search-ends-laval-autistic-boy.html
Ian Wyatt is an experienced runner.
Across six lanes of highways, miraculously unscathed. Into a stranger's house and onto the couch to watch his favourite shows on the Treehouse channel. Sometimes barefoot or shirtless. Often in his pyjamas. Always to the horror of his family.
Ian has severe autism and limited speech -- although he can dramatically recite the opening of the Law & Order TV show -- and each year, his family knows he'll bolt out of his secured house and disappear.
Until recently, the running episodes typically happened during daylight hours in the spring and fall. The Wyatts work on preventing the escapes by having a complex system of locks on all their doors leading outside, and even keep the keys in a locked food pantry that can only be opened with a numbered code.
But this January during a -30 C night, Ian disappeared in his pyjamas, boots and coat.
Gord and Gail Wyatt went immediately to Ian's usual running targets: neighbourhood houses that, for some reason, Ian has become fixated on. But there was no Ian munching on an apple, pillaged from a stranger's fridge.
Then they called police.
Ian eventually -- and for the first time -- returned home on his own, where his parents found him in the garage.
"He was either scared or really cold and knew he was in trouble," said Gord Wyatt, father to the 17-year-old. "It's absolutely terrifying."
Those heart-pounding, fearful moments prodded the Wyatts to try a GPS system that is capable of tracking Ian when he runs.
The Eye-Zon device, made available to three local families through a pilot program at the Autism Society of Edmonton Area, is smaller than a cellphone and can be tucked into a pocket or slipped around the neck with a lanyard. It sends information by satellite to a computer or cellphone, and provides Ian's running path and location on a map, as well as his speed.
"When people go missing, it takes a lot of resources to find them," said Karen Phillips, program director of the autism society.
Phillips worked with Edmonton Police Services to find solutions. The autism society borrowed three GPS devices from Eye-Zon to test them out. Eye-Zon is also considering contributing a portion of their proceeds from the devices to the autism society to help families who can't afford the units, Phillips said.
Although Ian wears the device around his neck at school, it's too big and awkward for him to keep it on in bed at night. Sewing little pouches onto various pieces of clothing to hold the device might only work in some situations.
"Short of a GPS chip like what Jason Bourne had in his back, what do you do?" Gord Wyatt said in jest, referring to the action film featuring a secret agent who is tracked through an electronic chip implanted under his skin. Yet Gord Wyatt is still optimistic the Eye-Zon device could help keep Ian safe.
Read more: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/health/tracks%20autistic%20runs/2977159/story.html#ixzz0mnX5UlOj
nu·m8 is the first GPS locator that actually locates your child not just the device through a unique and patented mechanism. Unlike other devices, nu·m8 can not be forgotten in a bag, lunchbox or jacket. Should the nu·m8 watch be removed unexpectedly, you will receive an email and / or SMS alert.
When you register your nu·m8, you indicate the mobile number and email address that it will respond to. Once nu·m8 is on your child's wrist and activated, you can locate them anytime in two ways: 1) Using the customer portal at Lok8u.com and view their current location on a map, OR 2) Receive their location via text message using your mobile phone.
You can also set pre-determined "Safe Zones" for your child to play in. Should they move out of this area you will receive an alert to inform you this has happened. nu·m8 utilizes GPS and GSM technology to locate your child indoors, outdoors, in the US as well as globally.
nu·m8 requires a monthly subscription to the Lok8u pinpoint services in order to send unlimited location requests--via the web or your mobile phone.
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GPS firm says autistic child’s death preventable
John Fulton, 12, was found dead near his Grand Forks, B.C., home on Monday, August 17, 2009. (Handout photo)By Darcy Wintonyk, ctvbc.ca
The death of an autistic child in British Columbia’s southern Interior was preventable, says a company that lets parents track their kids using GPS technology.
The body of 12-year-old John Fulton was found in a neighbour’s condo two days after he disappeared from his home in Grand Forks. A 42-year-old woman is in police custody.
Leslie Lauren, the vice president of Amber Alert GPS, says the boy could have been found by using one of its tiny wireless tracking devices — which can track a child to within three metres.
“If the GPS was on John at the time it doesn’t go to sleep so his mother would know within 60 seconds where he is and it would have been prevented,” Lauren told ctvbc.ca.
Fulton’s family has publicly criticized the B.C. RCMP for not issuing an Amber Alert after his disappearance — saying the child wouldn’t have run away from home because his autism prevents him from leaving his comfort zone.
Lauren says GPS assists the North American Amber Alert program by making it easier for parents and law authorities to find a child — before the child abduction Amber Alert is issued. In this case, she says, an Amber Alert wouldn’t be needed because of an SOS function that allows parents to listen to what is going on around their child.
“So while they were trying to look for him his parents and the police would have been able to listen to his surroundings without the abductor and John knowing they were listening,” she said.
“We could show police his exact location so they could send an immediate response.”
{more ... full story at The Autism News}
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