Hello everyone!

First of all, a great big “Thank You” for your response to my email request regarding the most important things you would expect in a child locator system. The response was, quite honestly, overwhelming!! So many great ideas from so many wonderful people.

I have compiled all of the responses in a table format for this report so that it is easy to read and understand. I have had to group many of your suggestions into similar categories….a lot of you referred to similar ideas but with different words. So, I made the best attempt I could to group them together logically.

I have some comments that have arisen from the suggestions you gave us:

1. Some of the suggestions were actually contradictory to others suggestions. For example, some wanted their tracking device to be quiet so that no perpetrator would know that it was one the child. But, others wanted it to have a loud alarm or siren on it so that, if the child was in public if they were to be taken, the siren or alarm would go off alerting the public of the situation.

2. This is a big one…most of you were thinking of an abductor or sexual predator taking your child when you thought of a feature. Although this is a very real fear and is getting more and more common in our society, the day to day usage of a child tracking device is probably more practically applied to just wondering where your child is so that you never have to get to the point where you think an abductor or predator has your child. What I am trying to say is, you still need the use of a child tracking device whether there is a threat of a predator or not. Just the peace of mind of knowing where your child is at dinner time or if they got to a friend’s house rather than getting lost or if they are heading home in the right direction after school. You may never have the problem of dealing with a predator, but you may deal daily with the worry of your child getting lost close to home or getting hurt and not being able to find them. Does that make sense?

3. Many of you wanted a child tracking device that is so small that it can be either implanted in your child or put in a shoelace or the heel of a shoe or in a pendant or earring. Although that idea may be perpetrated by futuristic television shows and movies, the reality is that the technology is not yet available to make a unit that small. We, at Amber Alert GPS, actually now have the smallest child tracking GPS device on the planet and it is still too big to put into a pendant, for example. But, I will tell you that when the technology is available, we will employ it!!

OK, so lets get on to the results of our survey. Here is what you told us. I have created the categories and then taken the number of each category and divided it by the total suggestions to get a percentage for each category. You can see that, for example, 10.69% of your wanted to have a child locator device that was “easy to hide/discreet/inconspicuous to others and to child/hide in shoe”. I hope that explains the percents.

Here are the suggestions:

FEATURES
Easy to hide/discreet/inconspicuous to others and to child 10.69%
Accuracy of location/exact location/exact address 9.88%
Secure attachment to child/child can’t remove 6.05%
Small/lightweight 5.44%
SOS button/panic button/loud alarm on unit/built-in whistle 5.24%
1/2-way communication with child and parent/text child 5.24%
Safe zone/silent alarm/proximity alert 4.84%
Wrist, ankle bracelet/watch/necklace/pendant/attach to child 4.23%
Affordable/insurance coverage/family plan 4.03%
Easy to use/child friendly 3.83%
Long distance coverage/works anywhere in the world 3.83%
Speed of locating/fast response 3.63%
Water proof/water resistant/works in adverse weather 3.23%
Best battery/long battery life/rechargeable 2.82%
Up-to-minute-tracking/bread crumbing/real time tracking 2.42%
Work indoors, building, elevator, big cities, cloudy weather 1.81%
Cooperation with businesses/citizens/police/911 1.81%
Cell phone tracking 1.81%
Durable/unbreakable/abuse resistant/work in extreme temp 1.61%
Notification if device removed from child 1.61%
More than one unit per user subscription 1.41%
iPhone app. 1.21%
Online tracking/online archive of location data 1.21%
Unit will not turn off (24/7 monitoring) 1.21%
Tamper proof 1.21%
No “SOS” letters on SOS button 1.01%
Temperature alert 0.81%
Implanted in child body 0.60%
Pulse, heart rate, oxygen, body temp monitor 0.60%
Uninterrupted service 0.40%
Visual or auditory low-battery sensor 0.40%
Motion/speed sensor 0.40%
Flashlight/LED light on device 0.40%
Different colors 0.40%
Built-in camera or camcorder or audio recorder 0.40%
No batteries required/no recharging required 0.40%
Silent device 0.20%
A unit for seniors 0.20%
Place on unit to store digital picture of child 0.20%
Work in amusement park 0.20%
Be able to track device location on parent’s watch 0.20%
24/7 live operator available 0.20%
Timer alert 0.20%
Visual notification of device 0.20%
Alert of child under water 0.20%
A recording of parent if lost 0.20%
Chip stay with child if abductor removes device 0.20%
No bad health effects to child from device 0.20%
Warning if device stops working 0.20%
Pager function on device 0.20%
Ability to change or modify parents login information 0.20%
Multiple person notification of alerts 0.20%
Track multiple devices 0.20%
Destination alert/preload favorite destinations 0.20%
Available in other countries 0.20%

FYI: Many of these features will be available on the Amber Alert GPS 2G child location system when it is released in August 2009. Having said that, there are some great ideas that we will surely implement as time goes by, some of which are just software changes that can be made even after the purchase of a 2G unit is made.

Thank you, again, for your valuable input. I hope you enjoyed this report as much as I enjoyed writing it from all of your input.

Julia Howard
www.amberalertgps.com