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Is 'wake-up' device the answer for mPERS?
September 3, 2014Leif Kothe
CARY, N.C.—Mobile PERS units are emerging as a monitoring staple, but that doesn't mean the device is without its share of skeptics.One of the most common criticisms leveled against mobile PERS devices, whether in hardware or app form, has to do with their relatively low battery life, a result of their constantly having to ping satellites to determine a user's changing location.Securus, a mobile safety and security solutions provider based here, might just have come up with a response to that...
Startup's mPERS device has siren, camera, pepper spray
April 23, 2014Leif Kothe
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif.—A developer of Internet-enabled life safety products is teaming up with a central station software provider to bring what it's calling “everywhere security” to alarm monitoring.Pangaea Services, a startup based here, is in the final stages of development for the Defender, a mobile security app that fuses elements of a mobile PERS unit with several other security functions, including a siren, pepper spray and a small camera that shoots snapshot photographs of...