Mobile Phones As Tracking Agents

(Via Mobilmag)Japan has progressed beyond the usage of RFID and GPS to track people. Parents can have a wide range of services to choose from to track old parents, young children and others.The services have features which are quite advanced. Email alerts are sent to you as soon as the trackee steps out of a predefined area of up to 5km. Other than the guardian, a local support center is also contacted to deploy a fail safe strategy ensuring that the ward does not stray too far.The expectation is to have a wide range of consumers ranging from institutional buyers such as schools, care facilities, and medical organizations. Individual buyers such as families with working parents and with dependants are likely to be the largest group of buyers for this product