Software:Find My Kids
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| Engine | iOS, Android |
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| Operating system | iOS 9 and newer, Android 4.2 and newer |
| License | Proprietary software |
| Website | findmykids.org |
Find My Kids is a mobile application that allows parents to monitor the location of their children. The family GPS-tracker was created in 2016 and it is used to track locations. It is intended primarily for tracking the geo-location and movements of a child using a mobile application or special children's watches with GPS support.[1] The service notifies parents of the exit from the established zones and records the child's movement history in the absence of access to the Internet. The application has about 2 million users worldwide.[2]
Origin
The Find My Kids app appeared on the Russian market in June 2016. The aim of the developers was to create an application that would allow parents to not worry about their children. The project received a very positive response from the target audience in Russia in 2017,[3] and the company began to develop rapidly. The team consisted of nine people in December 2017, and now employs twenty-four people a year on.
The company successfully entered the world market in 2018 and most of the users of the application are outside the CIS countries already in 2019. Among them are Turkey, India , Italy, Brazil , the United States , Indonesia, the UK, etc.
About the company
The mobile application Find My Kids is the first proprietary product of the Russian company Refresh (Russian: Рефрэш). The company has been developing its own software “Geo-tracking platform” since 2017. The platform's peculiarity is the use of machine learning mechanisms,[4] due to which the accuracy of coordinate determination is significantly increased and the battery life of the device is preserved.
Over 40 people are currently working on the support and development of the service. The head office of the company is in Perm. The service also has representative offices in Moscow and Yekaterinburg.
The founders of the project Find My Kids plan, in the near future, to launch several new products based on the platform,[4] including a platform for monitoring corporate employees; GPS tracker for pets and farm animals that does not require recharging.
Functioning principle
Find My Kids is a modular automated system with a client-server architecture. Two mobile applications are key parts of the system:
- The mobile application Find My Kids is designed to obtain information about the location, movement and surroundings of the child from devices on which the connected mobile app Chat with parents is installed.
- The application Chat with Parents uses modern[when?] methods for determining geolocation (via mobile network, Wi-Fi networks, and GPS) and uses its own patented methods of processing geodata, which in most situations allows you to determine the location of a device with an accuracy of 20-100m. The data collected by the application is sent through the server to the app Find My Kids, which is installed on the parent's phone.
Applications work via the Internet. In its absence the app accumulates data and sends the location information after connecting to the network.
Use of the application is allowed only with the consent of the child.[5] Personal data is stored in accordance with the law, kidSAFE Internet safety[6] and privacy certificate and GDPR policy.
Partnership and cooperation
The project collaborates with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.[7] Parents, having pressed a special button, receive brief instructions on what to do if the child is lost, and can call the hotline of the center with one click.[8]
Communication service provider Rostelecom and the mobile operator in the Republic of Kazakhstan Activ offer special conditions for the Find My Kids license for their subscribers.[9][10][11][12]
The service has 10 official partner companies in Russia and Europe offering GPS watches licensed by the Find My Kids application:[9] SmartBabyWatch, IQWatch, Leoteck, KidsNav.
Notes
- ↑ ""Где мои дети": ребенок под присмотром" (in ru-RU). 4PDA - Новости мира мобильных устройств. http://4pda.ru/2017/07/14/345073/. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
- ↑ "Как пермское приложение для контроля за детьми стало популярным среди родителей по всему миру" (in ru). www.chitaitext.ru. https://www.chitaitext.ru/novosti/kak-permskoe-prilozhenie-dlya-kontrolya-za-detmi-stalo-populyarnym-sredi-roditeley-po-vsemu-miru/. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
- ↑ "Я тебе покажу: как выручить 130 млн руб. на контроле за детьми". РБК Pro. https://pro.rbc.ru/demo/5ce2721c9a7947122a311912. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "10 млн Android-пользователей выбирают "Где Мои Дети"" (in ru-RU). http://blog.findmykids.org/blog/ru/10-mln-android-polzovateley. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
- ↑ "Где мои дети: локатор для телефона и gps-часов v1.9.9 Premium [Android"] (in ru). comunicart.ru. http://comunicart.ru/blogs/ruykis/gde-moi-deti-lokator-dlya-telefona-i-gps-chasov-v1-9-9-premium-android/. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
- ↑ "Find My Kids & Chat With Parents is certified by the kidSAFE Seal Program". www.kidsafeseal.com. https://www.kidsafeseal.com/certifiedproducts/find_my_kids.html. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
- ↑ "Национальный центр помощи пропавшим и пострадавшим детям". findchild.ru. http://findchild.ru/. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
- ↑ "Что делать, если потерялся ребенок" (in ru-RU). http://blog.findmykids.org/blog/ru/lost. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 ""Ростелеком" покажет "Где мои дети"" (in ru). www.kommersant.ru. 2018-07-26. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3696501. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
- ↑ "Где мои дети" (in ru-RU). Kcell - GSM Kazakhstan. http://www.kcell.kz/ru/product/find-my-kids. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
- ↑ G. S. M. Kazakhstan. "Где мои дети" (in ru). Kcell - GSM Kazakhstan. http://activ.kz/ru/product/find-my-kids. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
- ↑ ""Ростелеком" покажет "Где мои дети"" (in ru). www.company.rt.ru. https://www.company.rt.ru/press/news_fill/d444963/. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
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