Tack One launches an improved model of its location tracker for kids and seniors

Tack One, a Singapore-based startup, needs to assist ensure that your youngsters, aged dad and mom and pets are protected with AI-powered location know-how. At present, the corporate unveiled its new era of GPS system, Tack GPS Plus, on the Shopper Electronics Present (CES) 2024.

The startup launched its GPS tracker in 2021 to handle the ache level of the brief battery life available on the market and decrease the monitoring service value, making location monitoring extraordinarily reasonably priced. Tack One’s battery lasts 30 days on a single cost, and its subscription charges begin from $2.95 month-to-month for a two-year subscription plan.

The up to date model of its Tack GPS tracker, $79, is a small system that features a mixture of know-how comparable to GPS, Wi-Fi, an Web of Issues (IoT) cellular community, and AI and good sensors designed for lower-power gadgets.

The brand new Tack GPS now provides a patent-pending indoor elevation finder function, which makes use of sensors with clever algorithms that enable customers to find lacking youngsters, the aged, sufferers, pets, or priceless items in multistory buildings. The corporate claims Tack GPS Plus reduces search time in high-rise cities by providing vertical distance and geographical coordinates.

The Tack GPS Plus will be extensively utilized by dad and mom, caregivers, pet homeowners, and extra. The corporate says the demand for location know-how is rising in lots of areas, together with the caregiving of sufferers with persistent situations like Alzheimer’s illness, private and household safety, safety in opposition to lack of belongings, and even catastrophe prevention.

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Together with Tack GPS Plus, the corporate launched its new cellular app, OurSphere, which lets customers hold tabs on a number of Tack gadgets. OurSphere features a new performance that allows real-time location sharing amongst app customers. Meaning OurSphere app customers and not using a Tack system can share areas in the identical app in a household or enterprise setup. Co-founder and chief working officer of Tack One Eric Yeo mentioned it supplies an internet dashboard for enterprise customers managing giant numbers of Tack gadgets. Customers can obtain the app in mid-January. (Present Tack GPS customers will obtain a free app replace to OurSphere.)

Tack GPS Plus follows the corporate’s second product, a palm-sized autonomous flood-detection system known as Tack EVO FloodFinder. The corporate rolls out the flood monitoring system in Thailand and Singapore, which is for company customers and authorities businesses in areas of catastrophe response or surroundings and water administration, Yeo mentioned.

The startup plans to increase the service protection to extra international locations, from 30 to greater than 120 international locations, whereas sustaining a low subscription charge. The corporate shall be specializing in launching within the U.S., Canada, the U.Okay., Australia, Japan, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia international locations, Yeo famous.

Tack One, based in 2020 by Justin Zhang (CEO), Yeo (COO) and Shane Chiang (CCO), has raised $300,000 in seed funding since 2020.

Tack GPS Plus is now accessible on the company’s official website and can then be offered on Amazon, Lazada, and Shopee round mid-January. The corporate provides $3.95/ month for a one-year subscription plan and $4.95/month for a month-to-month subscription plan.