Software brings live position tracking to mobile phones.

SecurStar GmbH Mar 12, 2008

Press Release Summary:

Designed for GPS-enabled mobile phones, PositionTracer helps users determine location of people and valuables using live position tracking. With this solution, current locations and movements can be tracked online on map or satellite photo in real time. Zones can be defined to trigger alarm by e-mail, text message, or messenger service whenever anyone enters/leaves area, while automatic alarm signal can also ensure security of vehicles, boats, and other objects.

Original Press Release:

SecurStar Showcases Novelty at CeBIT: PositionTracer - A Bodyguard on Your Mobile Phone

IT security specialist introduces brand new software for mobile phones: Precise GPS live PositionTracer for protecting people and property

MUNICH, Germany, March 3 -- To contribute to the protection of people and property, the IT security specialist SecurStar has now developed PositionTracer for GPS-enabled mobile phones. With this brand-new product, it is now possible to determine the location of people as well as valuables using live position tracking. SecurStar will present this new development at the CeBIT trade show in Hanover, March 4-9, 2008, in Hall 6, booth G51.

According to the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), over 1,800 children and youths are currently missing (as of July 2007). The BKA's "missing/unknown dead" files contain more than 500 children under the age of 14 and more than 1,300 youths between 14 and 17 years. 200 to 300 new cases are added daily. Often the missing are quickly found again. However, in certain cases, the missing children are never found. Tens of thousands of emergency calls are made on mobile phones daily; only a small percentage are able to indicate their exact location. This costs precious -- often life- saving --time.

To increase the safety of people and property, SecurStar has developed PositionTracer for GPS-enabled mobile telephones. It enables satellite-exact live tracking -- exact to a few meters -- as opposed to normal mobile telephony tracking. With this solution, current locations and movements can be easily tracked online on a map or a satellite photo in real time. Zones can be defined to trigger an alarm by e-mail, text message, messenger service, etc., whenever anyone enters or leaves the area.

PositionTracer functions like a mobile guardian angel for its owner and is, therefore, particularly suitable for locating children, the elderly or ill, who can use this technology to indicate emergency situations such as accidents or kidnappings by pressing a special "PANIC" button. In practice, this would work as follows: for example, if a child changes her or her regular route to school or leaves the playground, the parents will immediately be notified by a signal and can react accordingly. At the same time, an automatic alarm signal can also ensure the security of vehicles, boats and other objects. As soon as the object leaves the defined zone, the software notifies the owner. "The deployment scenarios for our system are understandably manifold. For example, it offers concerned parents a completely new form of security for their children. It is now immediately possible to easily determine their location -- without the need of expensive additional equipment. This software can save lives in an emergency," says Wilfried Hafner, Managing Director of SecurStar GmbH.

SecurStar looks forward to welcoming you at CeBIT in Hanover from the 4th to the 9th of March 2008 in Hall 6, booth G51.

For more information, please visit www.securstar.com/

Brief portrait of SecurStar GmbH:
Founded in 2001 and with headquarters in Munich, Germany, SecurStar GmbH develops encrypted digital security products, which are among the most used software and hardware in private and corporate markets. Its workforce, consisting of specialists in the IT security area, is constantly trained to help customers reach the full potential of the software and its applications, seeking their satisfaction and data security. The company is attentive to the needs of the industrial sector, seeking to constantly update its products and making the latest technology available to its clients.

SecurStar US
Contact Person:
Ludmilla Cazarotti Paixao,
Public Relation
Phone: +1 646 205 0605
Fax: +1 206 600 4365
URL: www.securstar.com

SecurStar GmbH
Contact Person:
Wilfried Hafner
Managing Director
Fuerstenrieder Str. 270 D-81377
Munich - GERMANY
Phone: +49 (0) 89 90 40 68-125
Fax: +49 (0) 89 90 40 68-126

Source: SecurStar GmbH

Web site: www.securstar.com/