Phone tracker system helps keeping pupils safe!

(This is my first user post! Yay! Thanks malati_frnds :)) Ever wished you had an application in your phone which keeps you informed of where your children are? Wouldn’t it be great if we all could have a “GPS tracking” feature phones, enabling us to show or hide our positions for friends and college’s.A system that can track students through their mobile phones is among the new and latest technologies being developed to help improve security at America’s universities - something increasingly of concern since the tragic events at Virginia Tech recently in April. At the same time a privacy group has warned parents using new products which allow them to track their children may develop an “unhealthy and destructive” relationship with their child. And entertainment giant Disney is planning a mobile phone, targeted at up to 30 million children, which uses GPS to monitor where they are. Rave Guardian - invented after research found that phones are one of the primary tools students use to keep safe. Rave Guardian is a GPS-based campus safety application that puts a virtual public safety officer at every student’s side when they need it. Rave Guardian is available to institutions that adopt Rave Campus, as GPS/LBS enabled solutions require an integration path within certified networks to ensure full functionality. How it works

• Students activate a Rave Guardian timer on their mobile phone whenever they feel unsafe (e.g., about to cross campus late at night)
• Students deactivate the timer when they reach their destination safely
• Only when the timer expires and student has NOT deactivated Rave Guardian, campus police are notified with the student’s personal profile, date/time and nearest GPS location
• Provides students with single-click access campus security department
• Completely private, opt-in service available to students
• Effective tool for increasing personal and campus safety, as well as assisting special-needs individuals who may have medical problems or other disabilities

Rave Guardian allows the student to set a timer - for perhaps half a hour, when they leave their friends dorm room to go back to theirs. If they return safe they can simply turn off the alarm. “If something did happen, it would transmit their location every three minutes - including their profile - to campus safety,” Rodger Desai, president and CEO of the New York based company Rave Wireless, told BBC World Service’s Digital Planet programme. “So the user pops up on a Google map, wherever they are in the country, and campus safety knows that something may be wrong.” Rave Guardian is part of a software package known as Rave Campus. The system is currently used by 25 campuses, but the company hopes to be in 70 by the end of the year. Rave Campus relies on Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) data for most of its applications to work - such as a “kit” for universities so that students can track the shuttles and buses as they move around the campus.