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Spot Personal Tracker- the World’s First Satellite Messenger announced

Spot Personal Tracker Spot, a subsidiary of Globalstar has announced the availability of the SPOT Satellite messenger, a Satellite personal tracker. SPOT is a communicator with independent cellular coverage, and emergency services. You can call your friends and family through SPOT messenger. Thus, SPOT can act as a safety factor for those who are stranded in the mountains or remote areas beyond the range of their cellular phones.

Spot also features a GPS system but works within 20 feet. It also has SPOT message and tracking functions that helps, in various ranges of need and can visually track the location and spot it on a computer using Google Maps and the SPOT website.

Darren Bassel, Director of Retail Marketing for SPOT Inc, expressed “With SPOT, you can send a message for help or tell family members, friends or the authorities exactly where to find you using GPS accuracy. For anyone who ever drives their truck or car, or works or plays anywhere regardless of cellular coverage, help is now only a push button away.”

With the SPOT Satellite Messenger, users are offered:

  • Alert 9-1-1: dispatches emergency responders to an exact location
  • Ask for Help: sends a request for help to friends and family
  • Check In: lets contacts know where you are and that you are okay
  • Track Progress: sends and saves your location and allows contacts to track your progress using Google Maps

    • The waterproof SPOT works with replaceable AA size lithium batteries offering a life of around 12 months. It can float on water and can withstand extreme environmental shocks and temperatures. This product is perfect for backpacking, camping, fishing, hiking, hunting, ice and rock climbing, skiing, snowmobiling, snowshoeing and many other activities.

    Bassel continued, “Never before have all of these innovative features existed in one device – in some cases, the technology just didn’t exist, and those that did were too expensive. Now, virtually everyone can afford a potentially life-saving satellite messenger. The SPOT Messenger really represents the next-generation of satellite-based solutions for consumers. This product is just the first in what we expect to be a series of innovative SPOT satellite products designed for the everyday consumer. We anticipate our solutions will serve our customers around the world with long term peace of mind for years to come.”

    SPOT can be used for keeping the user safe from natural as well as man-made disaster. The SPOT Satellite Messenger will be available from 1st November this year for $150 (approx. Rs. 6000).


    Posted on 9 August, 2007 By Feature Editor
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    • Posted By: george dresnek,Aug 15th, 2007 pm31 03.28pm

      will these be avilable in any stores or only online ? will you give a group discount to a search and rescue team for the sheriff dept. ?

    • Posted By: Amy Lewis,Aug 23rd, 2007 pm31 02.58pm

      If it works it will be ideal!

    • Posted By: Jason Biggs,Oct 4th, 2007 pm31 09.35pm

      It does work and as advertised, but the real question is for a search and rescue team or sherrifs dept. how are you going to manage the logistics of the help function? Are you going to need the same logistical help for the tracking function if it is used in a search function to keep track of personel involved in the search? Does the current SPoTinc company provide for these functions of mulitiple unit tracking? Do they provide a forum for the help function logistics planning between multiple responding groups? How would the sherrifs dept. or a search and rescue team best utilize both the help and tracking fuctions or is this just a glorified PLB with two extra buttoms with no fuctionality for use in a SAR situation? To specifically George Dresnek please respond to biggs-jason@hotmail.com. I am working on some of the holes that I see in the fuctionality of the unit and could use your perspective. I have a little SAR experience and have passed the SARTech 1 examination, but my SAR expereince is very limited especially on the logistics side.

    • Posted By: Vincent Ho,May 1st, 2008 am31 01.35am

      I'm a private detective. From my knowledge, a personal tracker's battery normally last for only 2-5 days. Do you mean your lithium battery last for 1 year without having to take out for recharging every few days? Kindly quote your device in US Dollar or Taiwan currency. Appreciate your earliest reply. Thank you.

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