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Our Wander Alert wearable product, sold as Zembro Wander Alert by our sales and marketing partner Zembro, is now in use by elderly care organisations in Europe. Feedback on the product has been excellent so far: “We chose Zembro Wander Alert because it offers an unparalleled level of indoor and outdoor tracking for our dementia sufferers on a robust, cleanable watch,” says Johannes Kamm, Director of Haus St Michael residential care home in Kirchberg, Germany.  “Crucially, Zembro Wander Alert has allowed us to welcome new residents with early stage dementia whom we would otherwise be unable to manage at our facility.” The Wander Alert product on the Sony mSafety watch features indoor and outdoor tracking as well as geofenced and wearing/not wearing alerts. Wander Alert is …

    Nieuwenrode Belgium, Friday 3rd March 2023. Zembro today announces the release of its professional suite of personal alerting and tracking products for care and monitoring of elders, focussing on high quality and digital connectivity for indoor and outdoor alerting with particular focus on high-quality products for dementia sufferers. The suite of products comprises four wearable products connected to a secure platform: Zembro Wander Alert                                                  Zembro Simple Alert                      Zembro Essentials Mini                                             Zembro Essentials Comfort                                                                Each product comprises a wearable alerting bracelet or alerting button which works indoors and outdoors, cellular network connected to a cloud-hosted platform which allows care organisations to respond to or forward alerts to existing alerting platforms. Zembro Wander Alert and Zembro Simple Alert feature the mSafety from SONY, …

The SafeTrx suit of professional and personal alerting and tracking products for the corporate and consumer markets has been expanded to include the new SafeTrx Simple Alert and SafeTrx Wander Alert indoor and outdoor tracking products. Wander Alert and Simple alert can be rented or purchased via our sales partner Zembro.  

Cork, Ireland, and Brussels, Belgium, 14th September 2022. 8 West Consulting (Cork) and Zembro (Brussels) have collaborated to launch Zembro Care, a technical platform that offers advanced digital solutions to the healthcare and caregiving market. Zembro Care will utilise 8 West’s SafeTrx suite of products running on the mSafety connected wearable from Sony Network Communications Europe and the SafeTrx Care cloud platform, in addition to a range of new wearables, IOT home monitoring devices, voice activated applications, user friendly smartphone applications and direct integration with monitoring and alerting solutions for elderly care, both in care homes and for independent living at home. The existing and popular range of Zembro products used throughout Europe will continue to be supported. The Zembro Care platform offers class-leading wearable …

Following the launch of SafeTrx Active in Germany with our Search and Rescue partner Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger (DGzRS), there has been widespread coverage of the announcement across German media, special interest magazines and water sports organisations: https://www.yacht.de/ausruestung/sicherheit/sicherheit-dgzrs-stellt-smart-watch-vor/ Popular German yacht and sailing magazine https://www.nwzonline.de/plus-friesland/wangerland-nordsee-sicherheit-in-kuestennaehe-alarm-uhr-fuer-kiter-kajakfahrer-und-angler_a_51,9,1987886931.html Regional daily newspaper for Northwest Germany https://segelreporter.com/panorama/sicherheit-auf-dem-wasser-seenotretter-stellen-alarm-fuers-handgelenk-vor/ Sailing website covering everything from dinghy’s to yachts, from cruising to regattas. https://oh-presse.de/lokal/fehmarn/sicherheit-fuer-die-wassersportgemeinschaft/ Publishes digital news from the Ostholstein region, Germany and around the world. https://www.nord24.de/der-norden/fuer-wassersportler-diese-uhr-ruft-im-notfall-um-hilfe-85779.html Leading news portal focusing on regional stories between the Weser and Elbe. https://www.yacht-club-rursee.de/index.php/alle-feeds-anzeigen Rursee yacht club is the largest water sports club on the Rursee lake. https://www.dailydose.de/news-safetrax-dgzrs-uhr-20220905.htm Popular German windsurf magazine https://kreuzer-abteilung.org/allgemeine-news/sicherheitsapp-safetrx-jetzt-auch-mit-uhr-nutzbar/ The Cruising department of the German Sailing Association (Deutscher Segler-Verband eV) https://www.boote-magazin.de/ausruestung/technik/sicherheit-dgzrs-stellt-smart-watch-vor/ The motorboat …

After kayaking more than 2,000km, Daniel Salbu tested the SafeTrx Active watch and the Norwegian rescue vessel RS Hans Herman Horn was able to track his position and check if he was ok. Mission accomplished! Pls help Daniel to raise money for Redningsselskapet,the Norwegian Sea Rescue Society. You can track Daniel live at https://www.dsalbu.no/tracker and folks in Norway can purchase the watch on the Redningsselskapet online store https://nettbutikk.rs.no/produkt/safetrx-active/

8 West were honoured to host the Irish Trade and Innovation delegation lead by Minister of State Robert Troy, and senior staff of Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maatschappij (KNRM) Anneke Salden and Sander Kuipers in Scheveningen, The Netherlands. We discussed the role of technical innovation in Search and Rescue operations and demonstrated the SafeTrx Active watch. ‘We are in the business of saving lives!’