SPOT Satellite Personal Tracker

The SPOT messenger gives consumers a vital line of communication, independently of cellular coverage, with emergency services, friends, and family. SPOT is a revolutionary product that is designed to raise the safety factor for hundreds of millions of people around the world.
SPOT's message and tracking functions enable users to send messages to friends, family or emergency responders, based on varying levels of need and to visually track the location of the SPOT Satellite Messenger.
Alert 9-1-1 dispatches emergency responders to an exact location.

In the event of a non-life threatening emergency, the help button provides you the option to notify up to 10 friends and family members exactly where you are and that you need help..	Let up to 10 friends and family members of your choice know that all is well and notify them of your location via text or email. Save waypoints so you can review your route online at a later date.	Let anyone of your choice share in your adventure in real time with online personal shared pages; or just save your tracking map so you can review later.	For life-threatening emergencies, you can notify the GEOS International Emergency Response Center of your exact location. GEOS alerts the appropriate emergency responders worldwide – for example contacting 9-1-1 responders in North America and 1-1-2 responders in Europe.

Weighing just over 7 ounces, SPOT provides consumers with the ability to send for emergency assistance in the time of need; notify employers, friends or family of their status; and allows them to visually track the messenger's location and progress on a computer using Google Maps™ and the SPOT website. SPOT uses convenient, easy-to-replace AA size lithium batteries for complete portability and when powered on, has a standby battery life of approximately 12 months. SPOT floats and its rugged waterproof construction is engineered to withstand a wide variety of extreme environmental shock and temperature conditions.

SPOT is ideal for the growing market of outdoor enthusiasts, specifically when they are backpacking, camping, fishing, hiking, hunting, ice and rock climbing, skiing, snowmobiling, snowshoeing or participating in recreational maritime activities. SPOT is also ideal for those who need to notify others of their status after a natural or man-made disaster.
The National Association for Search and Rescue estimates more than 50,000 search and rescue missions are initiated each year in the United States alone. Many of these missions are undertaken without search and rescue knowing the exact location of the missing party.
SPOT removes this unknown by providing GPS location coordinates that are accurate to within 20 feet.

SPOT can also be used for commercial lone worker safety applications for those businesses with employees operating in remote areas outside the range of cellular and other wireless communications. It is also a valuable safety tool for any person drives their automobile outside of cellular coverage or for emergence messaging during natural disasters such as hurricanes or other situations when cellular or land-based communications may be damaged or unavailable.