Pebblebee has introduced a new personal safety feature for its Clip location tracker that’s suitable with each Apple’s Discover My and Google’s Discover Hub community. Alert is being launched as a free replace to the Pebblebee app immediately, and the corporate says it would work with present and future variations of the Clip with out requiring a subscription price. Urgent a button on the tracker will activate a loud siren and flashing mild to alert anybody close by that you just’re in hassle, whereas additionally triggering the app to ship a notification to an emergency contact.
Activating the Alert characteristic requires you to quickly press the Clip’s button a number of instances, making certain that random bumps received’t set off it by accident. In contrast to the sounds that the tracker emits once you’re attempting to find it, the 97-decibel siren has a extra pressing tone in order that it’s instantly apparent to these round you that there’s an issue.
By the Pebblebee app, you possibly can arrange a “Security Circle” consisting of 1 trusted contact, who will obtain an SMS message when the Alert characteristic has been activated. The emergency message features a safe hyperlink to the placement the place the alert was triggered, which might be seen in a browser in order that your contacts don’t have to have the Pebblebee app put in. The corporate says it plans to increase the Security Circle to a number of contacts “within the close to future,” with steady stay location monitoring being a characteristic on its “product roadmap.”
The tracker’s siren and flashing mild will proceed for as much as a minute, however ought to or not it’s triggered by accident, or if the issue resolves itself shortly, the alert might be canceled by quickly urgent the button once more or utilizing a single lengthy press. When canceled manually, your Security Circle contact will obtain one other message letting them understand it was intentionally stopped.
To make sure you understand how to make use of the characteristic forward of time so you possibly can reliably activate Alert throughout an actual emergency the Pebblebee app features a take a look at mode permitting you to follow quickly urgent the button with out alerting your Security Circle contact.
The brand new characteristic is akin to the SOS Alert that was launched by Pebblebee’s competitor, Tile, final September. Nonetheless, whereas Tile’s SOS Alert can contact a number of individuals and even let you could have Life360’s emergency dispatch middle name an ambulance, it requires a subscription that begins at $7.99 a month — and doesn’t embrace the audio and visible alerts.