Quite a few tracking and emergency alerting solutions have managed to find their way onto the market lately, simply because the level of security around the world has decreased over the past couple of years, while advancements in technology have made the development of such products possible.

And this is also the type of product we'll talk about as follows, namely the GeoSkeeper from Aerotel, which has been specially designed for elderly, chronically ill, children or lone workers, as well as their relatives and caregivers.

Fitted with a distress button and integrated active GPS system, the GeoSkeeper can activate a warning signal when needed, as well as providing accurate location tracking and getting immediate assistance when and where it is needed. The device uses a fairly old, but quite reliable GPS reception solution, namely the SiRF Star III module.

Furthermore, by using its embedded quad-band GSM/GPRS module and built-in cellular speakerphone, GeoSkeeper enables voice calls to be made to numbers stored in speed dialing buttons or to be received from any caller or from the remote monitoring center. For enhanced security, the speaker and the microphone are both internal.

Additionally, since it also offers a geofencing feature, GeoSkeeper enables accurate location of users in need. In the event that the wearer wanders outside a specified zone (e.g. neighborhood or school area), the system can alert the monitoring center and/or a relative or caregiver.

The GeoSkeeper is fairly easy to carry around, since it only measures 65 x 46 x 17 mm and weighs around 75 grams. It's powered by a rechargeable battery that offers a stand-by time of up to 90 hours and a talk time of around 1.5 hours. Things are pretty good in terms of tracking time as well, since the estimated functioning time in tracking mode is of around 24 hours (at 2 minutes intervals).

No pricing details available yet, but the device is apparently up for grabs in Finland, so you might try to check it out with stores from Nokia's home land.


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