UpNorthLive's Facebook fans voted to hear more about tracking their trick-or-treaters with a smart phone app.
Trick or Tracker® 2.0 allows parents to monitor multiple children's locations while trick or treating, and even notifies if a child has traveled outside an allowable perimeter and when a child arrives at a pre-set destination like home or school.
The updated app allows the parent/guardian to keep track of their little ghouls and goblins on Halloween, and during the rest of the year as well! Trick or Tracker®, which utilizesIconosys' Guards Up™ , Latchkey Kid™ and Tether Together™, installs on both the parent's phone and the child's phone, allowing the parent to find the child either on demand or at pre-set check-in intervals, and allowing the children to locate the parent or to send a distress message to the parent in a time of need, notifying the parent with the child's exact physical location.
The child's phone has special "Where Am I?", "Send Location", and "Where's My Parent?" buttons, and the parent's phone has a corresponding "Where's My Child?" button.
Trick or Tracker® can also be programmed to automatically send out updates of physical locations, in pre-set intervals, from the child's phone to the parent's phone. Additionally, the parent can set up their own "Geo-Fence" and "Location Triggers" to notify the parent if their child is traveling outside an allowable area, or has reached a pre-set destination, such as "home from school."
Only the child's phone must be an Android OS phone. For the parent, any Google maps-loaded phone (including iPhone, Blackberry, or Windows Phone 7) will work using a simple manual process.
The app also has a very handy flashlight feature that illuminates the phone screen, casting a ray of light on a child's path and allowing them to travel more safely in the dark or into their treat bag as they sneak a quick treat along their journey. This flashlight feature is available in white, as well as in several glow-stick colors and patterns (orange, pink, blue, red, and green).
Trick or Tracker® is now available for download from the Android Market, at Iconosys.com, and at TrickOrTracker.com. The app costs $4.99 for a lifetime license, but on Halloween Day, it will be available from www.trickortracker.com FREE OF CHARGE from 8am EST until 11:59pm EST.
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