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1. Stay in touch – show you care (A card, a call or a visit all mean a lot)
2. Treat the person with respect and dignity (Focus on all that the person can do)
3. Do the little things (Drop off dinner or run an errand)
4. Be specific when offering help (Tackle a task on the family’s To Do List)
5. Educate yourself about Alzheimer’s (Learn about its effects and how to respond)
6. Get the whole family out of the house (Plan an activity like a picnic or dinner at your place; include the person with Alzheimer’s whenever possible)
7. Be a good listener (Support and accept – try not to judge)
8. Encourage the family to stay healthy (Offer ideas for support and respite services)
9. Allow the family some personal time (Fill in as a caregiver, when needed)
10. Keep all family members in mind (From tots to elders, each reacts uniquely)

Remember, if you are caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease, you will need help. It is okay to ask for help!

So you already bought your GPS device from another vendor, and now you’ve found out how over priced their service plans are.  This is not an uncommon problem, and sentryGPSid can help.

If you haven’t activated your service through a separate vendor as of yet, we can have your SIM card activated for no charge to you.  You will have access to our webportal and your choice of our affordable tracking plans.

If you have activated your service with another provider, you will first have to cancel your service with them and most likely purchase and activate a new SIM card through sentryGPSid.  We can then activate your GPS device and the service plan of your choice.

No more need to be stuck in an over-priced GPS service plan with less features than what the sentryGPSid web portal provides!

Starting Monday April 20th, 2009, Sentry Technologies will be providing the opportunity to rent a GPS location device for only $7.50 per day. What a great way to try out the device, or to protect your children during your family vacation!

When you rent a sentryGPSid GPS location device, you’ll have access to our web portal to track your GPS device, as well as the ability to manually ping the GPS device via text message in order to obtain it’s location.

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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.

Sentry Technologies is committed to Giving Back to the charities and non-profits who help not only protect our children and seniors, but to all charities in our community and yours. That’s why we have created our “Giving Back” program.  For any sentryGPSid™ device sold through our website as a result of the buyer clicking on the logo of one of our affiliated charities, Sentry Technologies will donate both a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the device itself and also a portion of the monthly service fees, for as long as that  sentryGPSid™ service is activated.

If you are associated with a charity or non-profit that would like to learn more about our Giving Back program send us an email.

Before we begin explaining why the sentryGPSid™ is a much better option than the RFID based location systems, we will start with an explanation of the underlying technologies of each.

The sentryGPSid™ utilizes GPS technology. GPS is an abbreviation for Global Positioning System, the key word here being Global. From Wikipedia:

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) developed by the United States Department of Defense and managed by the United States Air Force 50th Space Wing. It is the only fully functional GNSS in the world, can be used freely, and is often used by civilians for navigation purposes. It uses a constellation of between 24 and 32 Medium Earth Orbit satellites that transmit precise microwave signals, which allow GPS receivers to determine their current location, the time, and their velocity.

In contrast, RFID (an abbreviation for Radio-frequency identification) is a much more locally based system. Information is sent to and read from RFID tags by a reader using radio waves. In passive systems, which are the most common, an RFID reader transmits an energy field that “wakes up” the tag and provides the power for the tag to respond to the reader. In active systems, a battery in the tag is used to boost the effective operating range of the tag. You may be familiar with short range RFID systems if you have ever used a proximity card for a door at work or a parking garage with secure access.

So, just by looking at the respective definitions of the two technologies you can start to see how the sentryGPSid™ and it’s GPS based technology is far superior to RFID based location systems. But the fact a sentryGPSid™ can be located most anywhere in the world is not the only advantage that separates the sentryGPSid™ from other child and adult locator devices. The sentryGPSid™ also provides what is known as “bread-crumbing”, or the storage and display of historical points of data. By default, when a user logs into the SentryGPS web portal he or she will automatically be provided up to the last 50 points of data which were transmitted by their sentryGPSid™. This means that a directional history can be derived even if the exact location of the GPS device can not be ascertained due to severe environmental conditions.

With an RFID based system, there is no data basing of previous locations or bread crumbing due to the fact the position of the transmitter is only considered relevant to the location of the receiver – not the actual position of the device on the globe. So if no signal an be picked up by the receiver, than there is no way of telling which direction to even start searching for the missing child or adult.

Also, while on the topic of the transmitter and receiver for an RFID system, that brings up another great benefit of the sentryGPSid™ over RFID based systems. RFID based systems require two pieces in order for the system to work: 1. the device on the child or Alzheimer’s patient, and 2. the receiver or “locater”. If the receiver is not readily at hand, the transmitter on the child or Alzheimer’s patient is almost worthless. Some of the systems out there today for Alzheimer’s patients require the local sheriff to invest as much as $3,000 for these RFID receivers in order for the programs to even be offered in your county.

With the sentryGPSid™ you can locate your GPS device through any internet connected computer, anywhere in the world. All you need is your username and password to the SentryGPS webportal and you will be able to track your device. So there is no expensive equipment for the sheriff’s office or local law enforcement agency to purchase. Additionally, we are developing applications for the iPhone, Windows Mobile phones, and other smart phones that will allow you to easily track your GPS device directly from your cell phone through a similar map-based interface. We are also going to give you the ability to send a text message to our webportal that will reply with the exact location of your device and a link that will open up your phones internet browser to display a map.

Those are just a few, brief examples of why the sentryGPSid™ is a far superior option to any of the RFID based child or Alzheimer location systems on the market today. I’ll make certain to outline more benefits in the very near future while we also release some great new functionality!

As the most common form of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder that causes a person to lose his memory, learning and retention, ability to make judgments, and several other cognitive and motor functions.

Many times the brain damage is so severe that an Alzheimer’s patient won’t even remember where he or she lives. There have been too many reports of Alzheimer’s patients having lost their way or just wandered off away from their own homes or the ssisted living facilities in which they reside. Countless findings show that over 60-70% of all patients with Alzheimer’s will become lost at least once in their lifetime. But the horror does not stop there; reports state that nearly 50% of these Alzheimer’s patients could die if they are not found within 24 hours.

One of the most practical devices in the battle to help Alzheimer’s patients is a device that can monitor the whereabouts of an Alzheimer’s patient at all hours of the day, anywhere in the world – a GPS tracking device.  GPS stands for Global Positioning Systems, the technology that has been used for military operations and is now popular in cars for detailed driving directions. Now, the practical uses of GPS technology do not end there – with the SentryGPS ID it can also be used to locate, track and monitor Alzheimer’s patients. The SentryGPS ID is an effective GPS tracking device which can be placed in a pants or jacket pocket, or worn on a belt in the included pouch.

By buying an activating a SentryGPS ID, you can rest easier at night knowing that your loved ones can not only be found if they are lost – you can be alerted if they even wander outside of your predetermined “safe zones”.  Make today the day you rest a little easier: http://sentrygpsid.com/order/

The sentryGPSid was created to be an effective GPS location, tracking and monitoring device for many markets. A few of these markets include missing child location and child protection, Alzheimer’s patients, dementia patients, other adults in nursing homes and long term care facilities, and even for asset management.

If you have a need for a a small, lightweight and affordable GPS device, the sentryGPSid is for you. Learn more by visiting our homepage, or market-specific sites, http://www.SentryKIDSGPS.com for child protection and location and http://www.SentrySilverGPS.com for adults.

Coming February 2009, Sentry Technologies will be debuting one of the smallest and economically priced GPS devices on the market today!  For more information, check out our product websites:

http://www.sentrykidsgps.com :: A GPS Child location device

http://www.sentrysilvergps.com :: A GPS device focused on seniors, Alzheimer’s patients, and all adults.