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You could then get a local SIM for the phones. Technology has its limitations. The phone may be dropped or separated from your child. The battery can die with the GPS constantly being on.
There are many tracking apps in the Apple app store and the Android Play Store. But most will require a data plan,. One option is to use the texting function without a data plan. I have an Android app called Zoner on my phone.
It is primarily an antivirus app, but has the ability to find the phone. You do not need a data plan and the gps can be left off to save the battery. If the phone or child is lost, all you need to do is use another phone to send a coded text to the lost phone or child to remotely turn on the GPS and to have the lost phone automatically send a text with the GPS coordinates of the lost phone back to you. You can even send a text to have the phone give off a loud alarm to find the phone in a crowd although the alarm is so loud it will probably scare the crap out of your kid.
No data required, but you need a text plan. Our kids are too young for phones, so we're looking at the types of GPS trackers that look like a watch that they wear on their wrist.
Most of them don't have phone capability, but as they do need to be able to relay GPS data to a parent's mobile phone, they do need data. What about the low tech way of child leashes and just keeping your eye on them. Most people I know use leashes up to the age of 6 to stop their kids running across the intersection before the pedestrian light is on. I agree that if you're children are too young to carry a phone you should be keeping eyes on them.
I can't imagine you'd let them that far out of sight if so young. I did read an article the other day about parents wanting GPS for their kids in event of a terror incident. That makes more sense I guess. This may not answer your tech question, but I was sitting inside a coffee shop in Bergen, Norway a year or so ago and noticed a Dad at the bus stop across the street who had a very clever technique.
He was dealing with bus routes or tickets, etc. They were not coordinated enough to run off together in that way. When he was done, they were allowed to let go of one hand, and they all walked off together, holding hands.
It's hard keeping an eye on multiple kids, especially when you might be distracted. Good on you to think ahead about it. Just make sure they have the accommodation address and your phone number somewhere safely on them. I use to give the kids my phone number or write it on their arms in permanent marker and tell them if they lost me to go to a lady with children or a store owner and ask them to call me. But despite the complexity it's already standard practice in the UK to snag a phone from a discovered body or arrested suspect, to find out where it's been lately.
That data is often picked up from the SIM or handset by the police themselves, avoiding additional cost or paper work the last cell is often stored to make reconnection faster when the phone is rebooted , but the network operator has a lot more tracking data. Such tracking works with all mobile phones, and we're all being tracked all the time just in case the police want to know where we were at some point in the future. As long as the process is expensive there seems little to fear; the police will only use it for serious crimes. Still, as networks become more intelligent such data will be cheaper to gather, and Malte Spitz's map might well be something we all have to get used to.
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Estimated error margins: 12 meters (max) for Europe and the U.K mobile phones. 12 meters (max) for U.S.A, South America and Canada mobile phones. Find out how to track a cell phone location with our guides and reviews of In fact, in North America and Europe, there are close to 70 million.
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