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Does a product exist combining a panic button with a gps (or mobile location) that links to police, ambulance or fire. 1 click police, 2 clicks ambulance, 3 cli

Does a product exist combining a panic button with a gps (or mobile location) that links to police, ambulance or fire. 1 click police, 2 clicks ambulance, 3 clicks fire... sort of thing?

veyron 15y ago
http://safekidzone.com/ http://safekidzone.com/ being tested in california iirc
- adrianwaj 15y ago
  Actually, I was thinking that the whole network of users could be alerted, so people nearby, not just a call-center or 911. As usual, the issue is who to trust and not to trust from the userbase, but it's a problem worth solving - the equivalent of someone screaming for help.
  - egwor 15y ago
    in the UK they recommend that if you need help, you actually shout fire. Sadly in big cities people will 'put their heads down' and walk past muggings. The idea is that if you shout fire, then all those individuals are also at risk, and therefore come to help.
orjan 15y ago
I believe http://wisedameapp.com/ http://wisedameapp.com/ is intended to do something like this.
hassanhassan 15y ago
Check out Guardly. I think they are doing something interesting this space: https://www.guardly.com/ https://www.guardly.com/
_corbett 15y ago
Two apps Circle of 6 and On Watch just won a government challenge put forth by VP Biden. The apps will be available in January, On Watch is similar to this product http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/11/02/announcing-winners-apps-against-abuse-technology-challenge http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/11/02/announcing-winners... (FD: I'm the developer of Circle of 6)
huhtenberg 15y ago
Dial 911 from virtually any cell phone and hang up. No need to say anything. PS. 112 in Europe. (edit) I meant to say that American 911 is European 112. I don't know if the police in European countries is supposed to react to dropped 112 calls or not. In Canada and in the US it is. A friend of mine saw it in action. He saw something, dialed, realized it wasn't a big deal, hung up, walked away 100 m, then, boom - not 2 minutes later a fire truck and a police car exactly where he called from. Their precision was really freaky.
- iaskwhy 15y ago
  I'm not sure how it works on all European countries but at least on my home country if you do call 112 and hang up nothing is going to happen. If you call 112 and say something and the call gets cut for some reason nothing is going to happen either...
  - raphman 15y ago
    German anecdote: A few years ago my 2yr old son seems to have dialed 112 by accident. We learned about this a minute later when the fire department called back to check if we needed help.
    - sixtofour 15y ago
      When my kid was three or four, I called the sheriff's business number, asked to talk to the 911 office, and asked them if I could have my son dial 911 and talk to them, for training (his). They checked if they were busy, then said OK. It puffed up his chest a bit, but we talked about emergencies, how to get help, why we don't call 911 unless it's an emergency, etc. I suppose if everyone did it they wouldn't be agreeable, but no one does, so you should too. :)
  - zalew 15y ago
    in my home country you're lucky if they pick up the phone before you bleed out. the thing is, 'europe' is a true overgeneralization, every country has different qualities of handling 112 emergency calls.
fgimenez 15y ago
Life360 (www.life360.com) has such a feature. It is essentially a safety app so families or groups of friends can keep tabs on each other. Full disclosure: I interned with them a few years ago when they were a startup out of Berkeley. Looks like they've grown a lot since then.
ibisum 15y ago
I wrote an app like this once, but it didn't get into the App Store (no life-threatening/critical apps policy). For Android, I wrote the "Fall Detector" which will try to see if you fall over (physically), or are inactive, and will alert your associates/friends/families over Twitter and SMS messages - its called "Fall Detector", for Android, and you can get it here: https://market.android.com/details?id=at.spantec.securemotion.falldetector https://market.android.com/details?id=at.spantec.securemotio... It has the feature that you can press the "green area" to send an emergency "here I am, come get me" message if you want to - including GPS details and so on.

Does a product exist combining a panic button with a gps (or mobile location) that links to police, ambulance or fire. 1 click police, 2 clicks ambulance, 3 clicks fire... sort of thing?

veyron 15y ago

http://safekidzone.com/ http://safekidzone.com/ being tested in california iirc

adrianwaj 15y ago
Actually, I was thinking that the whole network of users could be alerted, so people nearby, not just a call-center or 911. As usual, the issue is who to trust and not to trust from the userbase, but it's a problem worth solving - the equivalent of someone screaming for help.
- egwor 15y ago
  in the UK they recommend that if you need help, you actually shout fire. Sadly in big cities people will 'put their heads down' and walk past muggings. The idea is that if you shout fire, then all those individuals are also at risk, and therefore come to help.

orjan 15y ago

I believe http://wisedameapp.com/ http://wisedameapp.com/ is intended to do something like this.

hassanhassan 15y ago

Check out Guardly. I think they are doing something interesting this space: https://www.guardly.com/ https://www.guardly.com/

_corbett 15y ago

Two apps Circle of 6 and On Watch just won a government challenge put forth by VP Biden. The apps will be available in January, On Watch is similar to this product http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/11/02/announcing-winners-apps-against-abuse-technology-challenge http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/11/02/announcing-winners... (FD: I'm the developer of Circle of 6)

huhtenberg 15y ago

Dial 911 from virtually any cell phone and hang up. No need to say anything. PS. 112 in Europe. (edit) I meant to say that American 911 is European 112. I don't know if the police in European countries is supposed to react to dropped 112 calls or not. In Canada and in the US it is. A friend of mine saw it in action. He saw something, dialed, realized it wasn't a big deal, hung up, walked away 100 m, then, boom - not 2 minutes later a fire truck and a police car exactly where he called from. Their precision was really freaky.

iaskwhy 15y ago
I'm not sure how it works on all European countries but at least on my home country if you do call 112 and hang up nothing is going to happen. If you call 112 and say something and the call gets cut for some reason nothing is going to happen either...
- raphman 15y ago
  German anecdote: A few years ago my 2yr old son seems to have dialed 112 by accident. We learned about this a minute later when the fire department called back to check if we needed help.
  - sixtofour 15y ago
    When my kid was three or four, I called the sheriff's business number, asked to talk to the 911 office, and asked them if I could have my son dial 911 and talk to them, for training (his). They checked if they were busy, then said OK. It puffed up his chest a bit, but we talked about emergencies, how to get help, why we don't call 911 unless it's an emergency, etc. I suppose if everyone did it they wouldn't be agreeable, but no one does, so you should too. :)
- zalew 15y ago
  in my home country you're lucky if they pick up the phone before you bleed out. the thing is, 'europe' is a true overgeneralization, every country has different qualities of handling 112 emergency calls.

fgimenez 15y ago

Life360 (www.life360.com) has such a feature. It is essentially a safety app so families or groups of friends can keep tabs on each other. Full disclosure: I interned with them a few years ago when they were a startup out of Berkeley. Looks like they've grown a lot since then.

ibisum 15y ago

I wrote an app like this once, but it didn't get into the App Store (no life-threatening/critical apps policy). For Android, I wrote the "Fall Detector" which will try to see if you fall over (physically), or are inactive, and will alert your associates/friends/families over Twitter and SMS messages - its called "Fall Detector", for Android, and you can get it here: https://market.android.com/details?id=at.spantec.securemotion.falldetector https://market.android.com/details?id=at.spantec.securemotio... It has the feature that you can press the "green area" to send an emergency "here I am, come get me" message if you want to - including GPS details and so on.