We added 10 second panic capabilities to our EZ-1000 devices yesterday. They have a “panic button” which can be pressed to send a message.
My boys have EZ-1000’s here in Disneyland so I thought I would configure an alert straight to my cell phone if they ever pressed the button (not that they ever were somewhere without us).
Within 20-30 seconds on average, it would “page” me that either “Mickey” or “Chip” (the 2 devices) had pressed the panic button.
This is NOT something we sell to people for their kids — but security firms do use them for their foot and bike/Segway mounted security guards.
Here is the alert:
Panic alert on a GPS Insight EZ-1000 GPS Tracking device
And here was the SMS text message I got when “Chip” pressed the panic button:
Panic alert on a GPS Insight EZ-1000 GPS Tracking device
Then a map shows you their location and using the iPhone, I can walk to them using the “blue” dot which is me (well, if you look at the time, I had actually done this earlier to figure out where they were at beforehand…):
GPS Tracking my kids on Tom Sawyer's Island
This is what might happen to a kid at Disneyland if they get lost on Tom Sawyer’s Island without a Panic Alarm capable EZ-1000:
Jack in Tom Sawyer's jail at Disneyland
Rob.