GPS Smarter Partner

About GPS Smarter Partner Android App

Smarter Partner is an easy to use phone tracker which takes the worry out of situations where your loved ones are away from home on trips or during their leisure and work journeys, or on business travel. Use Smarter Partner to track your mobile personnel in a small business context.

Smarter Partner gives you these great benefits:

- Free to run*
- NO registration or personal info required - no web servers involved!
- NO ADs or In-App purchases, EVER!
- Up to THREE Partners can monitor each other in real-time with ease
- Monitor your children and let them monitor you
- Set an alert radius (safe zone) outside which alerts are sent
- Use it to record the location of for example your hotel (using home location) and always navigate back
- Use it as a road, satellite or hybrid map
- Smarter Partner always runs in the background so you will never miss an alert

Smarter Partner differs from our Smarter Tracker suite of apps in that ALL users see the application (not just the monitor phone) and can view the location of up to two 'Partner' phones on their map. Setting up is even easier with new PAIRING technology, taking only matter of seconds.

Smarter Partner uses SMS and GPS technology to give you a real-time map location. Each phone is able to message each paired phone to send or receive real-time location or individual alerts if the paired phone moves outside a geo-fence or 'safe area'.

If something out of the ordinary does occur, you'll be able to directly from the application, text or call the paired phone, or failing that, directly navigate to their location wherever that may be. If you are simply using it to keep track of your phones, you will be able to find your phone if lost or alert the authorities to its whereabouts if stolen.

Smarter Partner is NOT intended as a spying application, and hence is always visible via silent notifications.

Smarter Partner uses invisible, coded SMS text over a highly reliable 2G network. Indeed, there have been well-documented cases reported of texts having been successfully sent in emergency situations, when all other communication has failed.

Please install Smarter Partner on each phone to be tracked. Full context-sensitive help is available on each screen of the application.

COSTS

*Smarter Partner uses invisible, coded SMS text as its sole communication medium hence there may be a small ongoing cost to its use. It is therefore particularly suited to text-heavy or unlimited text tariffs where it would be completely free of running costs.

Smarter Partner (SP) requires the following permissions:

Read/Send/Write/Receive SMS
- SP uses these for invisible protocol messaging. No user texts are transmitted, made visible or manipulated in any way.

Access Network State
- SP checks for the status of the data network to notify user that a data connection is required to update maps.

Internet
- SP requires Google map server access to update maps.

Read Google Services
- SP requires Google Play Services installed to access map functionality.

Write External Storage
- SP writes events to a user-owned log file and clears its database on request.

Access Coarse/Fine Location
- SP uses the GPS sensor to update handset position (report mode) and update home position on request (monitor mode).

Receive Boot Completed
- SP reloads when the phone is rebooted so it is available (report mode) to monitor handset position and to send its position. Report mode has a minimal processing/memory footprint.

Read Contacts
- SP allows access to user contacts to load names and phone numbers. No data in contacts is altered, transmitted, made visible to other applications or manipulated in any way.

Call Phone
- SP allows the user to phone contacts which have been loaded as report mode handsets. No calls are ever initiated by ST, this can only be done by the user.

Vibrate
- SP will initiate a vibrate/sound notification when a report mode handset moves OUTSIDE a user-set geographical radius (circular area)