The booster behind the location-based security smart hardware

If you have seen the movie "Dear", you must have been impressed by the scene in the movie where Peng Peng got lost. When Peng Peng's father was frantically looking for his child at the train station, the child was carried into the carriage by a stranger, and the father and son passed by each other. In my country, more than 200,000 children get lost every year, and there are 40 million messages about "lost" on Weibo, but only 1% of them can be found.

The topic of preventing children from getting lost has been hotly discussed as the movie became popular. In the era of mobile Internet, location security solutions have effectively avoided this problem. Positioning and maps have become the boosters behind security-related smart hardware. With Amap's precise positioning services, a series of security-related smart hardware has gradually emerged.

Regarding children's location safety, smart shoes have emerged after bracelets. Compared with smart wearable products such as bracelets, smart shoes are not only designed to be more concealed in terms of smart module embedding, but also solve the problem of short standby time of bracelets. Yunduo smart children's shoes are a representative of this type of safety wearable devices. Through the positioning service provided by AutoNavi, the child's location is displayed in real time on the mobile phone APP. The children's shoes can help parents monitor the child's location and find lost children.

Amap also provides a safety fence function. Parents can set fences for schools, communities, parks and other common places in the Yunduo App. When children enter the safety fence, the App will push a sign-in reminder; when children walk out of the set safety area, they will receive a reminder notification. The positioning and track recording functions can also record the amount of exercise of children, and health management can be performed through calorie calculation and other methods.

In the field of smart hardware related to location security, the elderly, women, and people with disabilities are also three groups that receive much attention.

At the finals of the 2014 LBS Application Competition held by AutoNavi, we saw many excellent applications that also explored the field of security smart hardware. Through the precise positioning service provided by AutoNavi, they provided location security for children, the elderly, women, and the disabled. For example, Qinmi, a health and safety social platform with family as the circle, launched a smart watch with safety and communication as the main appeal after the mobile phone APP, aiming to solve many problems such as the elderly getting lost and getting lost outdoors, and currently has hundreds of thousands of users.

The Zhejiang Province Ram Association Public Welfare Rescue Promotion Association donated the smart positioning hardware product "Ping An Cloud Backey Smart Locator" to nearly a thousand people with dementia and disabilities, thereby saving the handling time and search and rescue costs to the greatest extent after the elderly and dementia people get lost.

In the face of social security incidents such as frequent disappearances of female college students, a female self-defense flashlight that combines flashlight, alarm, self-defense, positioning and guidance has emerged. In just half a year since its launch, the number of downloads has exceeded one million.

It is not difficult to find that the core functions of current security-related smart hardware are inseparable from positioning. The higher the positioning accuracy and the wider the scope of use, the more helpful it is to improve the user experience of its hardware products. How do smart wearable devices locate? It is understood that AutoNavi has supported the positioning needs of several domestic security-related smart wearable devices, including the products mentioned above and the 360 ​​Child Safety Guardian Bracelet.

In response to the entrepreneurial boom in smart hardware, AutoNavi LBS Open Platform provides both standard and non-standard smart hardware solutions, striving to cover all smart devices of different specifications and systems. For mainstream standard operating systems such as iOS and Android, this solution can not only be fully adapted and provide full platform support, but also provide development tools such as API/SDK (Application Programming Interface/Software Development Kit) at "zero cost" to help developers quickly obtain positioning, navigation, retrieval and other capabilities. As for non-standard smart hardware that is more difficult to adapt, AutoNavi LBS Open Platform provides location service development solutions specifically for its characteristics. Developers can independently design smart hardware according to their own needs and product features to achieve interaction with mobile phones.

"Our commitment to providing open services such as positioning and map display for security-related smart hardware is also a reflection of AutoNavi's social responsibility. Based on AutoNavi's deep accumulation and professional capabilities in the field of map navigation, we believe that AutoNavi will be the first choice for more smart hardware developers," said Wei Mingkai, general manager of AutoNavi's LBS open platform.