Sentry Technologies, LLC

Below are some alarming statistics from the Center to Prevent Lost Children, based out of Boston. http://www.preventinglostchildren.org/

Over 2000 U.S. kids get lost every day.¹

Less than 10% are reported to any authority.²

Approximately 100 U.S. kids are stereotypically kidnapped by strangers each year.¹

90% of families will experience losing a child in a public place.

• 20% have lost a child more than once.²

7 out of 10 kids get lost at least once in their lives.²

95% will forever remember the trauma of getting lost.²

Parents rank losing a child 5 times more concerning to them than terrorism and 3 times more concerning than abduction.²

Kids get lost most often in malls and stores (45%)²

27% of families that visit an amusement park lose a child while they are there.³

Only 9% of parents put some form of safe ID on their children.²

76% of parents want to know what to do to prevent a child from getting lost.²

Sources:
1: Source = NISMART2: National Incident Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway Children. U.S. Department of Justice. October 2002.
2: Source = Wander Wear Inc. parent survey, September 2006.
3: Source = IntiMetrix study, 2002.

For the 76% of parents who want to know what to do to prevent their child from getting lost I say look no further than the sentryGPSid personal location device!  It’s the smallest, most intelligent, and most cost effective GPS tracking device and web portal combination on the market today.  With the sentryGPSid you can know before your loved one wanders!

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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The sentryGPSid now offers users three service levels and pricing plans to choose from; Basic ($11/month), Premium ($19/month) and Unlimited ($40/month).

The Basic Service Plan
The Basic Service Plan is the most economical of the sentryGPSid service plans, and is meant for emergency location of the device only. With this plan, there are no regular updates to the GPS web portal but the user is allowed 10 manual location ‘pings’ per month. A ‘ping’ is any time the user texts the device to obtain it’s location, or users the Get Current Position or Urgent Tracking Mode through the web portal.

The Premium Service Plan
The Premium Service Plan is the most popular service plan and includes automatic updates of the GPS tracking device’s location to the web portal every 30 minutes, as well as an additional 50 manual pings per month for the user.

The Unlimited Service Plan
The Unlimited Service Plan is the choice of those who want to be able to track and monitor their device at all times, with no limitations. The Unlimited Service Plan includes automatic updates of the GPS tracking device’s location to the web portal every 15 minutes, as well as unlimited manual pings each month.

For a comparison chart of the different service plans, click below:
GPS Tracking Device Service Plan Comparison

To order yours sentryGPSid GPS tracking device today, click below:
Order Your sentryGPSid GPS Tracking Device

Now you can add, edit and delete additional user accounts to view your GPS portal and to receive alerts and notifications about your GPS device.

To do so, simply log in to you GPS web portal, and scroll to the bottom of the Live Tracking screen to the My Users and Groups section.

To create a GPS portal user, click on New and then enter the appropriate information and click Save.

You can have your device’s location, along with a link to a map, sent to you via text message by first sending a text message to 84805 with  the first three letters and/or numbers of the name of your device, a space, and then the word “loc”. For example, if your device’s name was “Joes GPS”, you would send a text message to 84805 with the message “Joe loc”.

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!