PhoneNear Family Safety

PhoneNear™ is helping mobile operators and service providers meet the rapidly changing needs of their customers for new family location and protection services. PhoneNear helps mobile subscribers stay connected to their families and their mobile devices at all times.

Family Safety offers protection and location services for family and loved ones keeping your family always close and connected on your smartphone.

Solving real user needs
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Family Safety is a solution for people who want to know that their children or elderly relatives are safe at all times. The product notifies them every time specific events occur such as a child leaving school or arriving home, for example.

Main Features
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• Geo-Fencing - Create safety zones for family members.
• Notifications - Be alerted when family members enter or leave the designated areas.
• Family Alerts - Send emergency alerts to all family members with your location.

Operator benefits
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With PhoneNear Family Safety mobile operators and service providers can benefit from:
• Creating real monetization opportunities.
• Providing additional advantages to have all family phones using your service.
• Having consumers use your services instead of third party services or apps.

A growing market
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By 2016, 70M households in the US and Europe will be tracking their family members. (source: Berg Insight)
Smartphone penetration is 61% across mature markets and is growing at 30% year-over-year. (source: TechCrunch)

Family Safety highlights
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• Create safety areas and get alerts when family members enter or leave any area.
• Locate your family on the web or on your smartphone in real time.
• Find or ring any family phone if lost or stolen.
• Manage visibility or alerts of any phone – you see your children but they don’t see you.
• Send an emergency alert with your location to all family phones.

Easy to implement
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PhoneNear is a cloud platform based on open standards. It’s straightforward to implement through a web services layer that integrates with the IT infrastructure – including back office business applications like authentication, billing, provisioning and customer care. The result: minimal cost of ownership and reduced risk.

Customization and management
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PhoneNear can be re-branded and customized in any way, making it a powerful branding tool for operators or service providers looking to provide a fully managed service to a third party.

Availability
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PhoneNear is available for all iOS devices (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch) running iOS 8. In operator network integrated scenarios, Family Safety is also available for any kind of phone – even feature phones.

Seize the future
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PhoneNear enables mobile operators and service providers to deliver brand new services that take advantage of IMS networks, marketing high-value services to customers wherever they are and increasing revenue, loyalty and satisfaction. PhoneNear is all about meeting the needs of both mobile operators and their customers by providing easy-to-use, easy-to-deliver services that users want and are willing to pay for.

Take the next step
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Contact us today to discover how PhoneNear can help your business and your customers.

Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.