The Hindu : Now, a GPS nanny

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Saturday, Apr 26, 2003

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Now, a GPS nanny

OSLO: Keeping tabs on children is going high tech in Norway. Chess Communications Inc., a Bergen-based cellular service provider, plans to sell a GPS transmitter the size of a Euro coin so that parents can monitor their children with a cell phone. Using global satellite positioning software, the transmitter sends information about its location to any GSM cell phone with a subscription to the service, a company official said on Friday. Using a Web page, parents can program the transmitter — which can be worn as a pendant or sewn into a child's clothes — to send a text message or call their cell phone if it leaves a programmed area. The GPS, which uses a constellation of satellites to pinpoint the exact position, is accurate to 15 ft. Nearly 80 per cent of Norway's 4.5 million residents own a mobile phone.

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