A small device with a single button has never done so much. Persa provides a single button interface that allows users to notify other people or our Activity Tracking platform when certain situations occur. Everything from Check in and Check out for mobile time clock applications to being used as a panic button in unsafe surroundings. It can even cause the device to create a virtual fence where it is located and keep track of when it leaves that fence and let others know about it.

The message button can act in single or dual modes, providing user feedback to indicate when the desired function has been activated. The feedback to the user doesn’t require them to see the device to know its working which is important in unsafe environments where discretion is so important. Not only can this result in communication to 3rd party individuals like a call center or manager, it can also communicate to our activity tracking platform for logging and reporting for future consumption.

One of the biggest concerns for users of mobile handheld device users is battery life and that battery dying at the wrong time. Now with Persa you can get a text message when your device’s battery is low allowing you to be prepared to charge it instead of going to use it and finding out then the battery is dead.

The battery life during normal every day use on Persa is perfect for those mobile work weeks. Whether it is for safety, mobile check in and out, or just keeping an account of where it has been, the long battery life combined with battery level notifications will mean its always charged and ready when you need it.

Such a compact device means your options are endless when it comes to the applications Persa can fit into. Traditionally a device like this is seen as a personal tracking device and a safety appliance for the mobile workforce. It fits perfectly into that application and has some great features for that environment. As good as it is for the mobile workforce, Persa has been found in many other traditional and non traditional GPS applications.

Mobile asset tracking, like cars and trucks, are some of the most common applications for a GPS device and Persa can work well for those applications where you do not want to attach something to the vehicle. Persa’s accelerometer allows for knowing when the vehicle is moving or stopped and its approximate speed. Sending this information to the Activity Tracking Platform gives you a full featured solution for vehicle tracking. Just some of the other applications include  fixed asset monitoring for tamper or movement when there shouldn’t be, tracking anything of value that is small and without a power source, fixed panic buttons in a classroom or any segmented environment for situational notifications, and system monitoring for on/off status.   

When you put a device out in the field with a user, and you decide to make a change to the way it works, it isn’t so bad to get that device back from that user and make that change or instruct that user how to make the change. However, when you have 10 users,100 users, or 1000s of users this is no longer an option.

With Persa you will never have to touch the device again once its out with your users. All changes to the way the device communicates, how often it communicates, and how the features of the device are configured can all be managed remotely over the cellular network with feedback and a user interface to confirm the changes that get made. Managing devices for a lot of “GPS” companies is an after thought, but we know just how important it is.

Want to know when one of your vehicles is being used when it shouldn’t be, or maybe you want to know if one of your valuable assets is being tampered with by someone that shouldn’t be? Persa has a built in accelerometer, which allows it to know when it starts moving, when it stops moving, or even when it feels an abnormal amount of shock or vibration. Combined with a full featured reporting engine, it can send unique messages when these situations occur.

It is great to get notified when one of the situations described occurs but since Persa is also reporting its location as often as you want it to, it can change that reporting frequency based on any of these situations it detects. The best example of this is you have something that should never move so maybe it sends in its location once a day but then when Persa detects motion it starts sending in its location every 5 seconds until you find it.

It’s great to get all of this information from Persa and to have a place to view it all in the Activity Tracking platform, but the true power of any solution meant to improve your life and business should let you know what you want to know without you asking. This is done through the rules and notification engine. You can get emails or texts based on any of the situations you are concerned about when they occur.

You can take advantage of the ability to notify as many different people as you want to help you manage these situations. For instance, you may want your managers to know when an employee leaves or arrives at a job site in real time via an email, but then if one of those users presses the panic button on the device you want the call center notified and you may want to be alerted though email and SMS text messaging. With Persa, these personalized notifications are possible.

Just about everyone uses Google Maps on their mobile devices. Whether they are looking for directions, or trying to find out where exactly they are, they are using GPS on those devices to do so. Persa has an embedded GPS module just like your mobile phone but it sends its location to the Activity Tracking platform as often and in the situations you determine. This allows for you to see the real time location of all of your devices in one place and its presented in the same Google Maps environment we are all use to using almost every day.

Since the Activity Tracking platform is getting all this location information from the devices you have, it then allows you to take advantage of numerous features that use this information. History of all the locations and activity of a device or all your devices during a specific time period, detailed location reports letting you know the starts and stops with addresses and date and times, entry and exit reports for locations that are important to you, these are a very small assortment of the possibilities.

When it comes to employee safety and the addition of a device like Persa with an alert button, its greatly helpful to be notified when that button is pressed. Many customers want to include a call center as part of the notification process when that button is pressed. The call center is there to receive and process those alerts and take appropriate actions based on the needs of the customer.

Determining the location and dispatching the proper public safety resources is one of the most common actions the call center can be instructed to take. They can also be used to notify specific contacts via phone that are associated with the person that has pressed the button.