GPS Technology Helps the Disabled

Using GPS technology, Globalpositioningsystems.co.uk (http://www.globalpositioningsystems.co.uk) is helping both the disabled and their loved ones to overcome the anxieties connected to venturing out on electronic mobility scooters and wheelchairs.  

North Yorkshire, UK (PRWEB) March 15, 2006 -- People who suffer a stroke, or similar afflictions frequently rely on mobility scooters and wheelchairs to get them out and about, and to give them the independence and freedom they need. The severely disabled can often experience disabilities such as speech constraints, the inability to use important muscles, and sometimes the inability to read or write, and so it is understandable that loved ones frequently feel anxious about the disabled venturing out alone. Globalpositioningsystems.co.uk, a specialist website for GPS technology, is helping both the disabled and their loved ones overcome this issue with GPS tracking units that mount neatly on to mobility scooters and wheelchairs.

Simon Pitts, managing director of Globalpositioningsystems.co.uk, explains: “By using a PC with dial-up connection, the SIM card inside the GPS tracking unit can be contacted in order to give details of its current position via the GB and Ireland PC street-mapping software. The sensitivity of the SiRF GPS chipset allows the tracking units to pick up a signal without the need to be in line-of-sight of GPS satellites. This can give the disabled, and their close relations the peace of mind that they can always be located whilst out and about on their mobility scooter.”

While vehicle tracking units are popularly used for locating a vehicle should it be stolen, or by fleet managers to monitor unauthorised use of vehicles by employees, their flexibility makes it both logical and possible for this GPS device to be used in conjunction with electronic mobility scooters and wheelchairs.

Mrs Sheila Meadows, a customer of Globalpositioningsystems.co.uk, comments: “My husband suffered a severe stroke at age 64, and while he still has his spatial and safety awareness, he cannot walk unaided and has mobility in only one arm. He is no longer able to read or write and he has lost all but limited speech. The GPS tracker gives us the peace of mind that we could find him if he got into difficulties, but most importantly it gives my husband the independence he needs.”

“Another useful aspect of the GPS tracking device is that the history and details of the journey can be downloaded and printed out so that my husband and I can look together to see where he has been. This helps him to regain his understanding of maps, and saves the interrogation he used to have while I tried to understand where he had been.” Says Mrs Meadows.

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