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Hello Everyone!

I work for a UK based company and I’m offering a new product which I think may help some people who visit this forum.

The idea behind the product is to offer affordable people tracking using a small GPS device which the sufferer can carry about their person in a bag or sewn into a jacket. You will be able to view movements off the carrier in real time on your PC or Smart Phone using an application similar to Google maps.

The basis for the product is that it must be affordable to everyone, easy to use, accurate to within 5 meters. Aside from being able to see where someone is exactly, you can also see where they have been, with timestamps.

Additional features are also excellent. The device has an SOS button which sends an alert if pressed. Other alerts include over speed, should the person get on a bus or train for example. Should you get an alert you can remotely monitor audio from the device.

Please take a look at http://www.thetrackerpack.com and if you find it interesting please register your interest. We are not yet taking orders but hope to be offering the service for as little as £30 a month as rental with no upfront costs or contracts.

Thanks for taking the time to read this!

Kind Regards

Glenn
 
I am concerned that you are promoting this item/service to carers...

For a carer or even a parent, who places or uses this gadget on any individual under there care for example diaebtic child, child/adult with learning difficulties, person with dementia or even a individual that is vunerable they would be Abusing this individual..

Any gadget or instrument that is capable of either monitoring or notifying an individual movement is classed as a restraint. To restrain somebody is against their basic human right to do so is Abuse.

A carer would need to apply to social services so it could be deemed whether or not using the gadget is abusive or not to the indiviudal... There are several different acts such as the mental capacity act, human rights etc that all need to be considered and the agreeance of the individual involved before it could be implemented...

Carers really do need to know where they stand with the law on this, as well it's possible that they could be prosecuted for abuse even though most would consider that the carer did actually have good intentions..
 
Personally - I think it sounds a brilliant device - in principle. The only thing I'd baulk at is the £30 tarif.
If it were more in line with a basic mobile phone rental it would be a real winner. I know that folks are gonna say that mobile phones are advancing, but for the likes of me - when I hypo badly, I'm not coherant and a lot would think I was drunk due to erratic behaviour. Not my fault at all.
I dont agree with "abuse" as carers are protecting that individual, but from a non obtrusive stance. The idea that it is, is ridiculous and a comment I personally find offensive. No doubt it is going to be moderated as an attack on the author of the reply - I can assure you it is not. The mere suggestion that a device to assist carers in their duties is an abuse - what about nurse call devices ?that are in homes ?..... this is an extension of that service on a mobile form.

Negatives will be out-weighed by positives - and I'm sure that a few non diabetics will agree - asthma sufferers, peanut allrgy sufferers, the elderly.

Soapboxes not needed here.

Good item Sir - I hope its proves itself soon enough.
 
Got to agree with Jopar on this totally.

As an individual that looks after myself with my husband I may think of having one incase anything did ever happen to me, as after diagnosis 25 years ago, I was missing after walking out of a shop that I was Manager at and being found 5 hours later on a dual carriageway by a driver who fortunately gort me to hospital........since I am hypo aware during day time now, I wouldn't be so bothered, but could think I might want it to save my husband worrying........HOWEVER I am NOT the carer, and I totally agree with Jopar's details, having been on courses run by social workers for the care of vulnerable adults-they would be horrified at the suggestion that a Carer might think of getting one, as indeed it would defintely be a restriction to an individuals basic human rights.
Defintely would be classed as abuse......
 
Sounds like a fantastic device especially with the sos button etc.

My uncle danny in his last years went walking down streets and climbing out windows due to illness not in his right mind. We had to get the police to help find him most of the time. This would of been a life saver. im all for it just not at that price a month.
 
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