SafeTrx Flotilla tracked participants in the first race of the 2021 South Australian Ocean Paddling (SOAP) Series which took place on South Australia’s Metro-Coast last Saturday 28th August. The majority of the 65 participants were safely monitored using the Flotilla race tracking software along the 15km course. The use of SafeTrx by competitors is an integral part of the race series safety plan. SafeTrx assists in keeping everyone safe by enabling race organisers (and the public) to track the location of each competitor via SafeTrx Flotilla. If race management detects via SafeTrx Flotilla that the forward movement of a competitor has stopped, they radio one of the Inshore Rescue Boat’s to direct them to the competitors location to check on their well-being regardless of …
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1,138 hours of kiting and surfing safely monitored by Jump Team Scheveningen!
Members of water sports club house, Jump Team are showing increasing interest for SafeTrx Active. Kite surfers and wind surfers are hitting the waves with SafeTrx Active strapped to their wrist. The club has recorded 873 activity sessions and members have clocked up over 1,138 hours out at sea! SafeTrx Active is giving all surfers the reassurance and peace of mind knowing help is at hand if needed. The SafeTrx Active app on the mSafety wearable from Sony is tracking their position so if they find themselves in an emergency they can raise the alert on the wearable and both Jump Team and the Dutch Coast Guard will receive the alert. Inexperience and underestimation of the dangers at sea are putting more and more pressure …
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Live, available and fully connected to local SAR and to Netherlands Coast Guard.
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SafeTrx Active delivers real time, precise positioning and tracking with wrist activatedrescue alerts transmitted directly to the local water sports school, club or local rescue services. This minimises the time a water sport user spends in danger at sea and maximises the effectiveness of search and rescue operations in their recovery. Available as a completely self contained system with wearables, tracking and monitoring software, the SafeTrx Active product for water sports schools and clubs can be used anywhere in the world where the LTE-M network is available. Until now open water sports participants relied on mobile phones to call for help. SafeTrx Active with the SafeTrx system now on a wearable is an extension of the SafeTrx product range. This is the next generation of …
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Using the continuous precise positioning information available in SafeTrx Active, search times are reduced and survival chances are significantly increased. SafeTrx Active’s capability as a tracking and alerting device came into its own during a recent Search and Rescue exercise by the KNRM – Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding MaatschappijThe KNRM staged an emergency where somebody had fallen over board and had started to drift. They equipped a floating dummy with the mSafety wearable from Sony and dropped it offshore leaving it and a rib to drift. Once the Coast Guard received a call with the initial alert location they then had to calculate and predict how far the dummy will drift with wind and tidal currents. During the conventional search exercise, a team ashore and onboard …
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