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It’s a sunny day on the beach. Your children are playing on the water front. Everyone is having a great day. After a view hours, with the sun peaking at its highest point you get a little sleepy. A scenic view gets your attention and in the next view seconds you loose your children out of sight.

They where playing enthusiastically in the surf, didn’t notice that they where drifting further and further away from where they where seated…

You panic! Where are my children?…..you can’t see them… there are out of sight….more panic!!

Does the above scenario seem familiar to you? Then you know what is feels when you lost your children out of sight!

With our new Tracktivator GC101, your kids will not be able to leave you and a perimeter you want without notice! Just enter your location and a perimeter into the Tracktivator and as soon as your child breaks trough the perimeter, you’ll get an SMS with there position.

Geofencing is hot!. So, being the nr1 company in the Netherlands we thought it might be a good idea to explain a little more about the benefits. Well sure, big brother is watching but how many of you have been watching Big brother or one of it’s derivates? Even before George Orwell’s 1984, your bank could give you a personality description, that even a good shrink couldn’t come up with. All based on your credit card behavior. So stop complaining and start using the benfits!

In the above example of Track-it.info’s geofencing services we see that a geofence was created in just 2 mouse clicks and a warning is displayed in case any object, in this case a car, breaks through the fence.

With the premium membership you even receive an SMS when objects breaks trough the geofence, inbound or outbound. It’s your choice!

And not only we provide software controlled geofencing, our hardware itself supports geofencing as well, completely autonomous if set by the user.

The software geofence is using a user controlled perimeter, which can be set on any location on the map, with just 2 mouse clicks.

The hardware geofence uses it’s displacement trigger, with user selectable speeds between 2 and 99 miles per hour. As soon as the Tracktivator is moved the owner/user of the Tracktivator receives an SMS while the object can be traced real-time on our web-site.

And that’s not all. Once the geofence is breached, you not only will be notified about this event, you can even listen, live!, to it’s surroundings by means of the monitoring capabilities of our Tracktivator(just like a mobile phone). As a matter of fact you can even use our Tracktivator as a mobile phone!

So now you know a little more about geofencing, in the next blog we’ll discuss some real-life situations in which geofencing is beneficial to you!

Nowadays we trust our high-tech gizmo’s like there is no tomorrow. But what happens if one of these days our GPS enabled routing advisors drop dead? Have you noticed that, once addicted to your navigation system, you are no longer able to find track if you, for what ever reason, cannot use your navigation device? Well, I do. I get lost!

There was day that I could remember every track I’ve been before or at least I know how to find my direction. Since the use of my navigator, this skill has deteriorated rapidly. So for those who suffer the same symptoms here are some basic skill that will help you find your way everywhere!.

Navigation by using the sun and an analog watch; you can determine direction using a common or analog watch–one that has hands. The direction will be accurate if you are using true local time, without any changes for daylight savings time. Remember, the further you are from the equator, the more accurate this method will be. If you only have a digital watch, you can overcome this obstacle. Quickly draw a watch on a circle of paper with the correct time on it and use it to determine your direction at that time.Watch navigation

In the northern hemisphere, hold the watch horizontal and point the hour hand at the sun. Bisect the angle between the hour hand and the 12 o’clock mark to get the north-south line. If there is any doubt as to which end of the line is north, remember that the sun rises in the east, sets in the west, and is due south at noon. The sun is in the east before noon and in the west after noon.

Note: If your watch is set on daylight savings time, use the midway point between the hour hand and 1 o’clock to determine the north-south line.

In the southern hemisphere, point the watch’s 12 o’clock mark toward the sun and a midpoint halfway between 12 and the hour hand will give you the north-south line.
With these rules of thumb, you’ll always manage your way home.