In the country people disappear. How to protect yourself and your family?

Every day, around the people disappear. In Ukraine, the account goes on dozens of disappearances in the day, Russia - already hundreds. If you look at the statistics for the year, these add up to a loss of very crazy numbers - tens of thousands of people who had gone nowhere. population loss in this category can be compared with the not so little loss in this military conflict. Most of then, however, are. Some even live.

Why and where people disappear? Answers to this question can be varied. Older people suffer from memory loss, the young - from an excess of romanticism. There are love stories, it is a purely criminal. Add to this that here and there, sparking political conflicts, human trafficking, law enforcement agencies, as the danger factor. There are many absolutely puzzling situations when a trustworthy worker or mother of many children just disappear for no reason and tracks. Mystic some.

Is it possible to protect yourself and your loved ones from such situations? Absolute guarantee of security, of course, can not be given, but some preventive measures can be taken. In this article, we will tell you what ways are there to ensure that you are always aware of finding their friends and relatives.

1. operator services

The first, the most simple and at the same time, a fairly effective way that comes to mind - this is a special service of your service provider. As you probably know, mobile technology allows a certain proportion of the errors to determine the location of the subscriber.

If you can turn on the service, you can at any time know where your child, spouse, friend. To do this, you simply need to send a special SMS service provider. In return you will receive a text message with its coordinates, a map section with the mark. It is also possible to track the location of your computer on a special website through a web interface.

Examples of such services in Russia can be beacon by Megaphone and the same name of Kyivstar, Locator MTS and so on. The main argument in favor of the use of these services is the possibility of determining a person's location, even if a person has quite ancient phone. Options for using this method, as well as the level of payment for different operators can vary, so it is best to specify the information on the appropriate home page.

2. Software

For all owners of modern smartphones, there are special programs that are using the GPS sensor able to determine its location and send on request to your relatives and friends.

Android

Tracking all applications of this platform can be divided into two categories: tools for finding the missing gadget specialized Family Safety program \ control for children.

Search for a person with one of the first category of programs required to pre-install special client necessary to know its structure and credentials. For more information on how this works, you can read in our publications:

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The leader among the programs of the second category until recently was the service Google Latitude (Locator), but after its closure and subsequent revival under the wing of the social network Google+, which, as you know, not everyone likes to use, it's time to look towards competitors. Among them are programs Glympse, Life360, MapTrack, MamaBear,GPS-tracking. More details about them you can read in our article:

• The best mobile apps for the safety of your children

iOS

All owners of Apple devices familiar service Find My DeviceWhich serves to locate the devices. Since the service is designed to find lost or missing gadgets, it is logical to use it and to search for their owners.

You can also use third-party application GPS Location TrackerWhich continuously monitors gadget coordinates and transmits them to a remote server. Having opened a special website, you can see your current location and history of the movement on the map.

Also note program Find My FriendsAllowing devices to determine geopozitsiyu your friends and family, using the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Optionally, you can also provide access to information about your location for a limited time or include automatic notification of changes in the location.

3. Cell station

If you or someone you know has successfully ignored all of the above methods, but there was an urgent need to set the location of a missing person, it is possible in extreme cases, to try to take advantage of the cellular providers communication.

All the stories that the three towers of communication at any time to determine the exact position of the phone is only partially true. In fact, the phone is able to rest any reports to the base station is not transmitting, and the very precision this determination can be fairly approximate and depends on the placement density in the towers areas. In other words, it is easier and more accurate all will find intensely calling, sending SMS dweller than the rarely used phone in rural areas. Learn more about why this is so, you can learn in this material.

However, the technical feasibility approximate determine the location of the subscriber by its position relative to the base station is still there. And sometimes even that inaccurate information may help to outline the range of human exploration and recreate the picture of the incident. For more detailed instructions on this subject, you can get into an extremely useful publication, which appeared after the recent disappearances of people in revolutionary Kiev - If the missing person with the phone, and you are looking for it.

conclusion

As you can see, the tools to significantly increase security, and those of their loved ones are. A lot of them, there are both completely free and commercial solutions. The only thing that is required of you - this is not to postpone the decision on this issue later, in the hope that "we are not concerned" and "maybe will cost." That it was not then need to spend sleepless nights and infinitely dial in morgues, hospitals and local police stations.