Poor Economy Brings an End to Work Release Program: GPS Trackers Used Instead
TAGS: community | crime | police | tracking
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By Greg Bartlett The city of Chesapeake has stopped allowing its prisoners to work at their regular jobs by day and serve out their sentences at night and on weekends. …Continue reading →
Protection or Smothering: GPS Tracking and Your Children
TAGS: backpacks | child | children | community | emergency | lost | parent | parents | safety
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By Greg Bartlett The recent years have seen a rise in the popularity of GPS tracking to protect assets like cars and electronics. As the market plateaus, however, companies offering …Continue reading →
Registered Sex Offenders Wearing GPS Tracking Devices
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By Greg Bartlett In many different communities in several states, registered sex offenders are being required to wear GPS tracking bracelets or anklets so that police can track their whereabouts …Continue reading →
GPS Tracking System: Benefits for Alzheimer’s Patients
TAGS: alert | community | elderly | lost | Medical | security
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By Greg Bartlett Alzheimer’s Disease is a condition in which elderly people can gradually lose their short term memory. The trouble with this is that everything we do involves our …Continue reading →
‘X’ Marks the Spot
TAGS: community | device | navigation | technology
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Geo Caching the World By Jackie Gately Replace a crusty, sea-worn, treasure map marked by an ‘X’ with an electronically-marked “treasure” and a Global Positioning System (GPS) and you’ve got …Continue reading →
GPS Tracking Keeps Elephants and Crops Safe
TAGS: community | help | productivity | safety | system | technology | tracking | undefined
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By Jackie Gately Geochemist, Thure Cerling, of the University of Utah, and his colleagues tracked seven Kenyan elephants sporting collars; but this was no circus. The elephants wore high-tech, Global …Continue reading →
Detecting Teen Substance Abuse
TAGS: child | children | community | parent | parents | safety | school | system | teenager | teenagers | tracking | vehicle
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By Jackie Gately There are many signs that indicate teenage substance abuse. While some represent normal rites of passage through those hormonal teenage years, consider these signs as “red flags” …Continue reading →
GPS: From Cell Phone Tracking to Asset Protection
TAGS: assest protection | community | construction | GPS Tracking | GPS tracking device | police | safety | satellite | service | technology | tracking
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As long as they are on and functioning, cell phones can be traced because they emit signals to the closest antenna tower. Sometimes cell phone calls are traced, but cell …Continue reading →