By Sarah Perez
To date, child location trackers have failed to live up to consumer expectations. They’ve arrived as oversized, bulky watches too large for little wrists, and some have even been designed so insecurely, that it would be safer to not use them at all. A new kid tracker from Jiobit, launching today, wants to address these problems by offering a fully encrypted location tracker with a more modular form factor that makes better sense for small children.
The Chicago-based startup was started by a father – Jiobit’s co-founder and CEO John Renaldi – after he experienced firsthand the terror of losing track of his then six-year old son at a local park.
“I was a Vice President of Product at Motorola, and was out on a family trip to downtown Chicago with my son, daughter, my wife,” Renaldi explains. The family was at Maggie Daley park when it happened. “Before I knew it – I can’t tell you how I got distracted – but in a sea of other children, I lost track of my son for 30 minutes,” he says.
The child eventually found his parents – he hadn’t wandered off at all, but was …read more
Source:: TechCrunch Gadgets
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