Learn About Child Locating GPS
Alex Fees: With nuM8 a company called LOK8U has designed a specialty product that manages to appeal to huge demographic, worried parents. LOK8U Chief Executive Steven Salmon was one of them.
Steven Salmon: I went to lunch with my wife and my daughter one Sunday. She went off to the toilet minutes ago did longer than I expected. As parents too I went into a blind panic, I couldn’t find her and she was out fading a pony and her back failed and just scared to leave her. Why as a parent—I’m a good parent, why did I go into a blind panic and couldn’t find simple, methodological solution that will help me find my child.
Alex Fees: The result is this a wristwatch that serves as a GPS locating device for your child.
Steven Salmon: New nuM8 is a watch for the child and it is a GPS and GSM device so it used as the satellite so we all know about to find the location of the child but it uses the mobile phone networks to communicate the location of that child when the parent needs to know and the unique aspect of nuM8 is that as far as the child concerned is the watch. It’s fixed onto the wrist of the child and then the bracelet is locked into the housing and then pause nuM8 into an alarm status.
So as a parent, if nuM8 is removed from my child, I get told by text message or email that that event is recent so I can be sure to wherever I my nuM8 is much all of this.
Alex Fees: You literally track your child whereabouts by connecting to nuM8 website from your mobile phone or computer.
Steven Salmon: On the map it would be shown the last location of each of this process. You can select other simple map modes, satellite mode or private mode which is we can search it with Google and from here you can then actually drive your nuM8 so when this device is in standby we can click where are you from where are you request. You can put the device since a live tracking. You can determine what the update rate is all in that track. You can set a site zone. So the site zone is the area that use apparent decide safe for your child to play in.
Alex Fees: Okay, so if Steven takes away from the child, the responsibility of notifying you if something goes wrong?
Steven Salmon: Absolutely yes because teenagers you know they got mobile phones. They go to GPS enable mobile phones. They are responsible enough to look out to themselves. Parents are not letting younger children go out to play. The society and the environment we all live in now is fairly difficult but good parents try to educate the children but ultimately parents are now stopping children going out to play because they’re concern about their safety and while I’m setting about to do is to try to give parents some additional peace of mind so they can give the kids a bit more freedom. Letting go socially develop peer interacts with their friends and hopefully make them a little safer.
Alex Fees: Salmon says nuM8 has made a big splash on both sides of the point.
Steven Salmon: We were CNN, CDS. Channel 12 all of the major newspapers, the internet. There are lots of blogs going and lots of interest.
Alex Fees: So, in the UK, the BBC—
Steven Salmon: And the UK will be on BBC, channel four, we’ve been in The Guardian, the Daily Mail. The BBC ran a feature two days ago and they will receive hundreds of thousands of inquiries from the British public.
Alex Fees: nuM8 applying existing technology, demands for an agile question do you know where your children are. In Las Vegas at the 2009 consumer electronic show, I’m Alex Fees for SBTV.com
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