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A NEW BENCHMARK IN LONE WORKER PROTECTION Reliance Protect, celebrated winning the prestigious Best Use Of Technology Award at the British Security Awards 2021.
Built-up areas can cause problems and
CHRIS ALLCARD, RELIANCE HIGH TECH
ID Ultra has been developed with
those
advanced GPS technologies that work
incidents where devices relying
alongside Wi-Fi technology to provide
solely on GPS would have not
location positions indoors.
provided a location.
The more Wi-Fi networks and access
Given
points ID Ultra can see, the better its
number
location
urban
incredibly proud to have received
environments it is far more effective than
the Best Use Of Technology
GPS. ID Ultra does this very quickly –
Award at the British Security
sending a Wi-Fi position within 15 - 20
Awards
seconds of an alarm. By comparison, some
delighted that our dedication to
lone worker devices can take upwards of
pushing
120 seconds to try to find a GPS location
technology has been recognised
before timing out.
by our industry peers.
To illustrate its effectiveness, in March
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2021 Reliance Protect received 1,900
Protect
lone worker alarms into its BS 5979
www.relianceprotect.co.uk
Technology is an increasingly integral part of any security strategy and plays a key role in keeping people safe as they go about their activities. Whether it’s a community based NHS nurse, a social worker, an enforcement officer or anyone else that works on their own, when an alarm is sent location verification
needs
to
happen
quickly.
Therefore, when we decided to develop our ID Ultra personal safety device, being able to pinpoint the exact location of the wearer was a primary objective. Although Global Positioning System (GPS) technology has had a positive impact on the effectiveness of personal safety devices, it needs to have line of sight to a minimum of four satellites to provide an accurate location.
when a wearer is indoors GPS can become either inaccurate or not work at all.
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