“Oribie Navi Land” is a GPS school bag for tracking kids created by Japanese school bag manufacturer Kyowa and security systems and services company Secom.
The “KoKo Secom Communication Terminal” would be attached to the school bag to send realtime location information to Secom’s server computer.
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Parents can check their kids’ whereabouts by either making a phone call to the service center or accessing a website using a PC or a smart phone. They can even ask Secom’s security agents to go and rescue their children in case of emergency.
“Oribie Navi Land” will be available on November 1. The bag including the device costs about US$300. A monthly service fee is about US$7.5.
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