lone working app

[openspaceman]

Basically an individual sends a text message to the website requesting call back, website sends them a text at an agreed time that they must respond to. If they don’t respond the website automatically contacts a recorded emergency contact(s).

 

 

 

It’s a free service giving 8 opportunities per month. Or paid service at £2 per month with unlimited use.

 

 

 

https://www.kitestring.io/

 

Seems a useful extra as long as your phone acknowledges receipt of the sms before kitestring sends alerts, otherwise it will be crying wolf if you are out of coverage.

[openspaceman]

It can't track you if you have GPS turned off, that's pretty obvious really.

 

 

That was the thing about google latittude, it showed position based on the cell towers you were camped on rather than depend on GPS (which canes the battery on my samsung) so not that obvious.

[Andy fellows]

Smart Locator i have just installed this on my phone, they use this in Scandinavia and had a 100 per cent success rate, as it is a problem over here with people getting lost in forest.

[openspaceman]

Smart Locator i have just installed this on my phone, they use this in Scandinavia and had a 100 per cent success rate, as it is a problem over here with people getting lost in forest.

 

Please let me know how you get on, can you describe how it works in practise? Can you see your position from a desktop pc? Is position report available all the time or just when a call is received?