Guardly, a new app from a Toronto-based startup that arrives on iPhone today. It's a mobile personal safety service that helps you alert, connect and then collaborate with your family, friends and authorities in a single tap on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
With Guardly, enables alerted parties to collaborate in real-time by conference call, instant messaging and map-based, location-aware positioning to coordinate response plans between you and your responders in an emergency.
You do not have to bother looking for the nearest phone because with this app you can report emergencies and call for help in real-time, rather than having to drive to the nearest phone. But we haven't really built these networks out fully and taken advantage of all the power of the mobile phone to send text messages, phone calls, conference calls, photos, and instant messages - not just to the authorities but to friends and family.
Even if you walk around with your iPhone in hand (or in pocket), it still takes 8 taps to dial 911 (Home, Slide to unlock, Phone, Keypad, 9, 1, 1, Send). It takes 3 taps to launch Guardly.
When activated, Guardly is able to contact the user's personal safety network (which can be a number of people via voice, SMS or email) and/or cal 911. It will keep you in contact with these groups so you can collaborate via conference call and instant-messaging.
You do not have to bother looking for the nearest phone because with this app you can report emergencies and call for help in real-time, rather than having to drive to the nearest phone. But we haven't really built these networks out fully and taken advantage of all the power of the mobile phone to send text messages, phone calls, conference calls, photos, and instant messages - not just to the authorities but to friends and family.
Even if you walk around with your iPhone in hand (or in pocket), it still takes 8 taps to dial 911 (Home, Slide to unlock, Phone, Keypad, 9, 1, 1, Send). It takes 3 taps to launch Guardly.
When activated, Guardly is able to contact the user's personal safety network (which can be a number of people via voice, SMS or email) and/or cal 911. It will keep you in contact with these groups so you can collaborate via conference call and instant-messaging.
