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Keep reading to explore the research — and see how our solutions deliver real-time, secure, and energy-efficient tracking that gives families and caregivers peace of mind.
Seamless Indoor and Outdoor Low-Power Positioning For Safety
Ensuring the safety of children and elderly individuals is a primary concern for caregivers and families. Wearable safety tracking devices, such as child tracker watches and medical alert systems, have become practical tools for monitoring the well-being of these vulnerable groups. Traditional Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-based trackers often face limitations, including short battery life and poor indoor coverage:
- Short Battery Life:
High power consumption leads to frequent recharging, reducing device reliability. - Poor Indoor Performance:
GNSS signals are often weak or unavailable indoors, limiting effectiveness in homes, schools, and healthcare facilities. - Delayed Alerts:
A lack of real-time notifications can prevent timely interventions during emergencies. - Privacy Concerns:
Continuous tracking raises issues regarding data security and individual privacy.
Caregivers require real-time, reliable location-tracking solutions for children and elderly individuals who may be prone to wandering or getting lost. Advanced solutions incorporating low power consumption, alternative positioning technologies, and seamless indoor-outdoor tracking are essential to address these challenges within child safety and elderly care.
Low-Power Wearable Tracking for Children
Child Safety Tracking: Smart Positioning for Safer Childhoods
Parents need reliable child safety tracking solutions that ensure their children’s safety — without the hassle of constant recharging. Traditional GNSS-enabled devices often drain batteries quickly and struggle with indoor accuracy among other things, making them less practical for daily use.
Next-generation child safety wearables now leverage low-power positioning technologies, significantly extending battery life while providing continuous and reliable tracking both indoors and outdoors. Combain’s infrastructure-free positioning system enables accurate location tracking, without the need for GPS or expensive beacon installations.
Why it Matters
Real Safety Risks: Child harassment and abduction pose serious threats to children’s mental and emotional well-being (Suryavanshi et al., 2024)*.
Rising Incidents: In 2023, the NCMEC handled nearly 29,000 reports of missing children. Online exploitation cases have also surged, with a 300% increase in predator incidents between 2021 and 2023.
Growing Security Investments: Increasing threats to child safety — including school violence — are motivating both public and private investment in smarter safety technologies.
Combain’s technology is ideal for manufacturers and service providers developing the next generation of child safety watches, tags, and wearables. It enables real-time, secure, and energy-efficient tracking without intrusive infrastructure, giving families the peace of mind they deserve.
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Suryavanshi, A.B., Jadhav, V.S., Iyer, K.K. et al. (2024) Children’s safety application with secure tracking device, 2024 International Conference on Inventive Computation Technologies (ICICT).
Indoor Location Tracking for Seniors
Older adults are especially at risk of sudden health emergencies — particularly those living alone or in assisted care settings. These individuals require continuous monitoring to prevent falls or wandering. In these situations, reliable, real-time location tracking is critical for ensuring safety while preserving a sense of independence.
Combain Positioning: Supporting Independence and Safety in Elder Care
Traditional GNSS devices are unreliable indoors, limiting their effectiveness. Modern medical alert systems now integrate indoor positioning technologies like Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons to accurately track movement within buildings. These systems provide real-time alerts to caregivers when a resident enters a restricted area, enhancing safety measures. While many current solutions depend on dedicated infrastructure — adding cost and complexity — Combain’s technology can be integrated into hardware of your choice, offering flexible and scalable deployment.
Combain’s positioning solution offers accurate tracking both indoors and outdoors, enabling caregivers and healthcare providers to locate individuals, respond quickly and reduce risk.
Why It Matters
Growing Need: The number of elderly individuals living alone has significantly increased in recent years. As the population ages, especially those with dementia, incidents of wandering or getting lost are expected to rise (National Library of Medicine, 2024).
Time-Critical Care: Care professionals often report time pressure as a major challenge (Casterlé et al., 2020)*. Real-time location tracking can help caregivers respond faster and more efficiently.
Promoting Independence: By enabling safe autonomy, location tracking helps prevent or delay institutional care — improving quality of life and reducing long-term healthcare costs (Guralnik et al., 2002)*.
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Dierckx de Casterlé, B., Mertens, E. & Steenacker, J. (2020) Nurses’ experiences of working under time pressure in care for older persons, Nursing Ethics, 27(4), pp. 979-990.
Guralnik, J.M., Alecxih, L., Branch, L.G. & Wiener, J.M. (2002) Medical and long-term care costs when older persons become more dependent, American Journal of Public Health, 92(8), pp. 1244-1245.
The Solution
Combain Indoor Positioning Technologies for Elderly and Child Safety Tracking
To overcome these challenges, implementing advanced positioning solutions is essential.
Key features include:
- Seamless Indoor and Outdoor Tracking:
Utilizing a combination of GNSS, WiFi, cellular, and BLE technologies to ensure continuous monitoring across various environments. - AI-Driven Positioning Algorithms:
Enhancing location accuracy and reliability by processing data from multiple sources. - Enhanced Coverage & Indoor Accuracy:
Combain Crowd Indoor allows devices to send training data, expanding coverage to more buildings and improving indoor accuracy through automated model retraining. - Low-Power Consumption:
Designing devices with energy-efficient positioning to extend battery life, reducing the frequency of recharges. - Geofencing and Real-Time Alerts:
Establish virtual boundaries and provide instant notifications when these boundaries are crossed, enabling prompt responses. Combain delivers the necessary technology for these types of features, but ready-made solutions are available through Combain partners like Traxmate. - Robust Privacy Protection:
Implementing secure, encrypted data storage and transmission protocols to safeguard location information.
Benefits
- Extended Battery Life:
Low-power positioning allows devices to operate for extended periods, minimizing maintenance and ensuring continuous protection. - Reliable Indoor Tracking:
Alternative positioning technologies provide accurate location data indoors where GNSS signals are insufficient. - Real-Time Alerts and Geofencing:
Immediate notifications enable caregivers to act swiftly in case of emergencies or unauthorized movements.
Why Choose Combain Positioning Solutions?
- Seamless Integration:
Compatibility with existing safety and alert systems facilitates easy adoption and implementation. - Superior Indoor Positioning:
By leveraging multiple technologies, Combain ensures accurate tracking in environments where traditional GNSS falls short. The system continuously improves over time by allowing training data submissions and enhancing precision and coverage with ongoing updates. - Scalable and Adaptable:
Solutions can be customized for various applications, from personal use to large-scale assisted living facilities. - Privacy Protection:
Your location data is not shared with any third party. Advanced security measures ensure that sensitive location data remains confidential and protected from unauthorized access.
Integrating these power-efficient and advanced positioning technologies into wearable safety devices dramatically enhances the protection and well-being of children and elderly individuals. By overcoming the limitations of traditional GNSS-based trackers, caregivers gain more reliable tools for continuous monitoring—without the hassle of frequent recharging.
Next Steps
To get started, contact us to schedule a consultation. Learn how Seamless Indoor and Outdoor positioning can empower your safety solutions.
Precise positioning of devices in indoor and outdoor environments ensures total visibility and minimizes downtime.
Flexible and cost-effective solutions for positioning by using AI-enhanced WiFi, Bluetooth, and Cell ID-based positioning. This method significantly decreases the need for large infrastructure investments.
Combain provides cloud-based and on-premise solutions, enabling businesses to easily scale their positioning systems and integrate them with existing IoT and tracking systems.
Your location data is not shared with any third party. Advanced security measures ensure that sensitive location data remains confidential and protected from unauthorized access.
Low-power positioning
Low power positioning determines the location of a device using energy-efficient technologies like Cell ID location services and Wi-Fi positioning, rather than traditional GPS. These methods are ideal for use cases where long battery life, small device size, and indoor coverage are key priorities, such as in child safety wearables or elderly care trackers.
Unlike GNSS, which requires a clear line-of-sight to satellites and consumes significant power, low power positioning can operate effectively indoors and with minimal energy usage. This enables devices to function for extended periods without frequent charging, a critical feature for vulnerable user groups.
While ultra-high accuracy is not always necessary, knowing the approximate location of a person or object is often enough to ensure safety and peace of mind. That’s why low power positioning is becoming an essential solution for wearable trackers in everyday safety applications.