Child GPS Tracking
GPS tracking for school-age children so parents know where they are.
When a child becomes old enough to attend school parents are left with two feelings. The first is one of pride that that their baby is growing up and about to take the next steps in the evolution of learning. The other feeling is one of fear that they won't be there to protect their child if something happens. The second feeling is becoming more and more common as stories of bullying and school shootings tend to dominate national news headlines. There is no question that kids today face more unique and dangerous challenges than those their parents faced when attending school, but the one thing everyone can agree on is that steps must be made to make certain student safety is top priority. With child safety a major concern, parents are now taking personal safety of their kids into their own hands with GPS tracking systems that offer real-time location updates.
Real-Time GPS Trackers Keep Kids Monitored
Tracking applications have continued to expand with the decrease in cost of the technology and increase in operation simplicity of the devices. This is something that has put a smile on the face of parents everywhere because it has opened up the doors to more applications related to personal safety such as GPS monitoring of children. How GPS child tracking works is a simple three (3) step process:
- Child keeps portable tracker system in their pocket or backpack.
- GPS monitoring system transmits real-time locations of where that child is at periodically throughout the day.
- Parents can go online using their cell phones, computers or tablets to see where their child is at throughout the day.
Real-time trackers also come engineered with a number of alerting features designed specifically to notify parents the moment their child walks off school campus grounds. One feature in particular known as geo-fencing provides parents the ability to create safe zones. When the child leaves these safe zones an alert is immediately transmitted out to the parents via text message and email notifying them that their child has left that safe zone perimeter. This feature is ideal for keeping parents informed about when their child arrives/leaves school and arrives/leaves home.
Personal surveillance solutions are giving parents the ability to safeguard the things most important to them: their loved ones. This is why in the next decade it will only be more common and prevalent to see GPS monitoring systems in the schoolyard as a tool to boost child safety.
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FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers published by GOTOP for its tracking devices.
Why is your communications more efficient than other providers that I have seen?
Wireless Networks - GSM/GPRS For Real-time GPS tracking, the wireless network is used to communicate the GPS data from the vehicle/asset, so location, speed and stop times can be viewed in Real-time. Think in terms of how mobile phones work. There are two types used; (1) Digital Cellular and (2) Satellite. Obviously, digital cellular is more popular due to cost. This is the same with communicating real-time GPS data for vehicle tracking. Wireless Networks: Cellular vs. Satellite Due to the facts that (1) hardware is less expensive (2) monthly service fees are less expensive (3) superior network reliability; a digital cellular-based system is the best way to go for the vast majority of companies that want to use a real-time system for nearly any type of tracking. Digital Wireless Networks If you are looking to purchase a 1st tier GPS tracking system, then you should be looking for a system that operates on a 1st tier digital wireless network. All of the 1st tier wireless communications companies is the market have moved to digital wireless networks. There are two types of types of digital wireless protocols that the major communication companies have utilized for the build-out of their wireless networks: GSM/GPRS CDMA (1xrt) There is an on-going debate as to which of these protocols is superior for cell phones, but for live data feeds for devices used for GPS tracking, mobile email, and wireless forms, the "always on" technology of GPRS is clearly superior. GPS devices that use this network are "pay as you go" type devices. One should only consider using GPS devices on these networks for applications where only a few location records per day are required. GPS devices that use these networks should never be considered for fleet management applications due to the fact that reporting vehicle activity for a sound fleet management system requires between 1000-3000 records generated per month. The cost of this many records on these networks would be far above the flat fee you would pay with a superior, digital GSM/GPRS.
Is this "real time" tracking?
GPS tracking Systems provides its customers "real time" tracking, with GPS devices updated their specific location based on a customer chosen tracking interval. The devices can all in real time, and there is no need to download daily data or plug the device into an interface to extract data at the end of the work day.
What is Vehicle/person tracking solution?
It would need to install a GPS tracking device on the vehicle/Motorcycle / person / Pet and through a username and password from the GPS tracking software, then you can view your device real time tracking as well as all history record and events that generated it.