BrickHouse has a child locator device that will immediately alert you with a loud beeping noise, vibration and directional guidance as soon as your child or loved one wanders past the preset distances you have defined.

The device will “home” in on your child or anyone wearing the “tag” or wristband. As you get closer to them. The directional guidance will get stronger and the beeping will get louder.

The person wearing the band can at any time press the panic button which will send an alert to the person who has the hand held unit.

This locator would be perfect for an outing with someone who has memory issues, a child who has special needs, and anyone with a tendency to wander off. The minute they pass your predefined “safe area” you will be alerted.

More information and videos are available at their website. BrickHouse.com

Amber Alert GPS has a more elaborate child locator. This unit is revolutionary in this field. You can receive the location of your child with a simple call or text. You can see the location on a map on your cell phone (if it is web enabled) 5 users can receive alerts via email or phone when the panic button has been pressed. You can set a safe zone, speed alert, it has one way voice monitoring, water resistant. This unit does a ton… You can attach it to the wrist, ankle, a belt, a backpack, purse, etc.

The text message that you will receive will give you the street address, lattitude and longitude and a website link to a map. This is nice because you don’t have to rely on a homing device, you simply know where your child is at all times.

You can define an area in your neighborhood that will give you an alert when the boundary is passed. You can also adjust this “safe zone” on the fly with a simple text.

Temperature alerts are also enabled. You will be notified when the temperature of the unit rises above 100 degrees and when it drops below 40 degrees. This is crucial when children are left in hot cars.

More information on this unit can be found at Amber Alert GPS

Brickhouse also has their own version of a GPS tracking device. This one is claimed to be the worlds smallest… A bit more expensive than the Amber Alert tracker though.

This unit tracks indoors and outside using cellular AGPS. That just means that they use Assisted Global Positioning Systems. They use local cellular towers to triangulate a position on the device. It can pull info from a cell tower in just seconds and this reduces the processing power that is needed so your battery lasts longer.  The battery will last up to 21 days. Pretty nice.

More info on the P-Trac Micro can be found here.

Keeping your kids safe with GPS tracking for children is probably one of the best things you can do. Let’s face it, we lead busy lives, we work, we travel, and our children can’t always be supervised the way we would like, one hundred percent of the time. This is just the way it is in today’s society.

Many parents are at odds with this technology, saying it steps too far into our private lives and our childrens’ lives. The reality is that your kids will be unattended by you many times throughout their day. They play outside, and walk to the bus, they go to their friends houses to play and you have no control over what happens at that point. It’s in these unsupervised moments that things can go wrong. It doesn’t mean it’s a parents fault. At some point, we all have to let our children have a little freedom and feel like a human being growing up. The facts are there, according to a report from the U.S. department of justice, 797,500 children younger than 18 were reported missing in a one year period of time studied. This is terrible!

So, how does all of this stuff work? Let me tell you, it’s way easier than you think. There are companies that use GPS (Global Positioning System) and your cell phone. So, this means that if you have a cell phone, you can track your children. There are many different styles of devices on the market as well.

You can use a watch style tracking system, you can give them a cell phone with tracking enabled, they can wear a device as a necklace, in the style of a pager, you can put a device in their backpack. There are lots of ways you can implement the device. Now, while you can’t guarantee that it won’t be removed or taken off by your child or someone else, (that is if they know what to look for), Choosing an inconspicuous product will deter against this.