Sentry Technologies, LLC

Sentry Technologies has been a leader in innovation for protecting our loved ones for a long time, and now they take another step way past what any of the other GPS personal location device companies on the market come even close to providing.  The power of polygonal geofencing.  Some companies provide radial geofencing, giving you the ability to draw large or small circles that usually encompass way more geographic area than you truly want to encircle.  Now with the SentryGPS web portal you can draw geofences that cover your desired area much more precisely than ever before.  Take the three examples below:

Local Neighborhood Geofence

The first geofence example I’ll present to you is that of a very tightly defined local area where a loved one may travel within his or her own neighborhood.  For an adult with Alzheimer’s or other form of dementia, this may be their daily route to walk or ride their bike around the neighborhood.  Or maybe it is a child’s route to school, and also encircling the block the school is located on.  The sentryGPSid is the first GPS personal location device that can give you this precise of control of your geofence on any level, and the benefits on the local level are clear.

Geofencing for long distance travels

Another example for using polygonal geofencing is that of long distance traveling.  The SentryGPS web portal allows you to create a geofence that will monitor your loved one’s GPS device whether they are traveling on vacation, work, or going back to college.   Whether they are traveling one hour, four hours or 14 hours, the SentryGPS web portal gives you the ability to highlight their actual travel path so you can know right away if they take a detour from their normal course.  Looking at the example to the right, imagine how large of an area would be covered by a radial geofence.  Over 95% of the area covered by a radial geofence encompassing both end points would be outside of the true travel path.

Geofences for traveling into town.

Maybe the first two examples don’t pertain exactly to your every day needs for a GPS location device.  Maybe you need a way to track your loved one on their daily commute while traveling from their home to either work, or school, or just into town.  Maybe your loved one lives in a long term care facility, yet travels into town for work every day.  The example to your left shows you how you can highlight that daily travel path on a local level, and encompass larger areas on both ends.

How fast is one mile per minute?  Well the obvious answer is 60 miles per hour, but let’s look at a graphical representation of exactly how fast 1 mile per minute really is:

A Missing Child Can Disappear At 1 Mile Per Minute

Click on the image for a larger version and you will see 12 concentric circles based around Lincoln, Nebraska.  The inner most circle represents just how far a missing child can disappear in 1 hour.  Each additional circle represents an additional hour, with the outer most circle representing only 12 hours.   That’s 720 miles.

Even 1 mile is well out of the range of any RFID based child location system on the market today, in fact most of them do not even have a range of more than 600 feet – that’s just 2 football fields.  At 1 mile (5280 feet) a minute (60 seconds), a missing child could be out of range of any of these RFID based child location systems in just 8.8 seconds (5280 feet / 60 seconds).  So within 10 seconds of your child going missing he or she could be well outside of the range of any RFID based child location system.  Just 10 seconds.  And that means there’s not even an indication of which direction to start searching.

That’s why a GPS child locator is so much more effective in locating a missing child than an RFID based system.  The sentryGPSid child locator is not a locally based system with a limited range.  It has the ability to locate a missing child anywhere in the world, through any internet connected computer.  As long as the sentryGPSid can pick up a cellular signal in order to broadcast it’s location back up to our webportal.

Additionally, not only does the sentryGPSid allow you to locate your device anywhere a cellular signal can be obtained, our geofencing technology also lets you know BEFORE your child goes missing by sending you customized alerts as soon as your child leaves their predefined safe zones.  You can also send a text message to your device at any time and it will respond back it’s exact location as well as a link to a map which will show you it’s exact position.

Choose your GPS tracking preferences

The SentryGPS webportal allows you to customize your view of our GPS tracking map.  Through the Settings option immediately below the map showing your GPS device, you can customize the following options:

1. Whether or not to show the data collected from your GPS device.
2. The ability to select the number of points of data to display from 1 to 50.  Choosing 1 will show the latest position reported by your GPS device, while choosing more than one will show the current position along with the appropriate number of historical points of data.
3. Whether or not to show visual indicators on your map which correspond to any alert information triggered by your GPS device.
4. The SentryGPS webportal allows you to any geaofences you have created for your device directly on the GPS tracking map.
5. You also are provided the option of showing connecting lines between points of data (if you have selected more than 1 point of data).  This can be useful in helping o establish a travel pattern for your GPS device.

SentryKIDS, protecting children for over 15 years!

SentryKIDS® pioneered the digital child ID and child fingerprinting market over 15 years ago, and we continue to be lead the industry in quality, innovation, professionalism and value. With a SentryKIDS® FingerTIPS™ child ID and child fingerprinting system you can take fast, clean, digital fingerprints in a fraction of the time it takes to use the ink & paper method – and there is no messy cleanup either!

Now Sentry Technologies, the company behind the SentryKIDS® digital child fingerprinting software, is offering the most proactive approach at protecting children from wandering or getting lost  – and we are doing it at the most economical price point with more features than anyone else!

sentryGPSid GPS personal location device

The sentryGPSid™ is the smallest, most intelligent and most affordable GPS personal location device on the market today.  Bar none.   The sentryGPSid™ has the ability to alert a parent that their child is wandering BEFORE they go missing, and in the event of the unthinkable, the sentryGPSid™ provides parents a way to track their child’s GPS device in real time through our industry leading GPS tracking web portal.

At a price of just $185 for the device, and a $19/month service fee, the sentryGPSid™ is hands-down the most affordable GPS child location device available today.   Other providers will charge almost 3 times that amount for their GPS child location devices and services – and they don’t provide any additional features, while some even want to charge parents more for features we include with our GPS tracking web portal!

Stay tuned and check back often as we discuss all of the new features in depth as the update is released;  but we just can’t resist giving a sneak preview of some of the enhanced functionality and features.

Here are just a few of the features v1.1b will include:

• Enhanced mapping that allows for easy viewing of the last 1 to 50 data points of each device and the ability to display the geofences right on the tracking map.
• An easy “Zoom to Device” feature – this is especially great for accounts with multiple devices.
• A Hitorical Map Portlet that now lets you visually see the travel history of a selected device on the map as well as in text.  And the travel history is now exportable too!
• And my favorite – and industry first, Polygonal Geofences.  This makes the SentryGPS webportal the first in the industry to not limit you to just radial geofences.  We worked hard on this feature because we know not every safe or forbidden zone is a circle!

So your son or daughter is now driving on their own, but you still want to keep tabs on them when they are outside of the nest. The sentryGPSid™ is the perfect GPS device for keeping track of your teen driver both in the car and out!

The sentryGPSid™ has configurable Speed Warnings that will let you know if your child is going faster than you want them to go.  You’ll immediately get a notification via text, email, or in your archived alerts to tell you they have exceeded the speed threshold you have set for them.  You can also check their travel history to see where they were when they broke the speed threshold (or at anytime) and also determine for how long they were exceeding your speed threshold.  And unlike some GPS device’s on the market today that are permanently mounted in one car, the sentryGPSid™ can be taken with your teen wherever he or she may go so you can even know if they are in a car going too fast when a friend is driving.

Worried that your teen may turn off his or her GPS device so you can’t monitor them?  The sentryGPSid™ also allows you to set up an alert to be notified each and every time the device is powered on or off.

At just $185 for the device, and $19 per month for unlimited access to the SentryGPS web portal, the sentryGPSid™ is easily the most affordable GPS location device on the market.

The SentryGPS webportal allows you to create an alert that will automatically inform you when your sentryGPSid’s battery is low.  A low battery alert is easy to create under the Settings tab just like any other alert.  Simply:

• create a new alert
• type a name & description
• under Conditions choose Sensor Reports
• click transducer then select Low Battery and click OK
• click Add then Next
• under Actions select Create Alarm and Notify
• Click Alarm Name to name the alarm, then Info to choose the alarm level, and Alarm Content to modify the alarm message
• then click Add, Next, and Finish

there you go, now you will be alerted (by the method you have configured for the chosen alarm level) whenever the sensor detects a low battery

RBC Bank and Sentry Technologies have partnered to host a “Round to Remember,” the first RBC Bank – Sentry Technologies Charity Golf Tournament to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association on April 21, 2009 at Birkdale Golf Club. All proceeds from this event will benefit the Alzheimer’s Association Western Carolina.

A Round To Remember