AetherGPS Pebble

In short AetherGPS offers Location as a Service (GPS-GSM-Internet mash-up) for 3rd person usage perspective. AetherGPS Pebble (Product) is a ready to use portable GPS Child Tracker for Parents to keep track of their Kid's whereabouts & well-being in real time - with ease. Small, lightweight and easy to conceal Safety Device for Kids to carry and se... cure tracking services for Parents on Web, Mobile and SMS. Telematics: AetherGPS Pebble; the portable hardware device, relies on GSM to communicate with the server and comes pre-installed with a service SIM card. There are 2 kinds of communication happening between hardware device and server in cloud: Hardware is persistently sending geo-location data to the server. This is simple and happens over GPRS data connection on GSM. Server sending control commands to the device and receiving acknowledgements back. This is tricky and is done via SMS. For this communication to happen, a unique SMS GATEWAY and LONGCODE pair is required. Because the device simply responds to control commands back to the number. Apart from above mentioned GSM components; in telematics domain, AetherGPS platform utilizes Cloud PBX services offered by IDEA. This service allows us to provide our end users with a number in cloud that they can call or SMS to utilize AetherGPS features. Upon calling this number; end users are authorized and connected to their respective Pebble devices being carried by their kid, so they can hear what's happening around them without interrupting. End users can also send SMS queries to this number for accessing real-time geo-location information; e.g. sending 'CL' fetches current location of their kid. This facilitates the ability to fetch information over internet; via SMS, without having access to internet. M2M Communication: To address the reliability issues of current personal GPS tracker solutions available in market, AetherGPS completely changed the way end user services were delivered. In spite of relying on hardware device for end user services, we fused it ...Read More