GetGaggle Beacons - An Innovative Child Safety Solution for Families and Groups

FEATURES

Know your children are safe and secure at all times

KEEP GROUPS TOGETHER

Proprietary safety technology service helps teachers and chaperones know that the children under their care are nearby. Alerts when a member of their group wanders out of range.

CHAPERONE COMMUNICATION

Designed for multi-chaperone trips, with real-time chat for trip status and information.

EASY TO USE

Set up your trip, distribute beacons to all members, and go! The app checks to see that everyone is near, but does not track their location.

ESCALATION

Chaperone can escalate alert for missing member to group, trip, and regional level (all Gaggle users).

About Gaggle

Gaggle was created by parents, for parents

Gaggle is a revolutionary new child safety service to help families and groups keep track of each other. After being one of many chaperones on a field trip with a class of 125 elementary school kids we had the opportunity to see the challenges of monitoring both large and small groups. This experience has inspired our company to develop a solution to this problem using smart phones that most chaperones already carry.

Children on field trips wear our Gaggle Beacon - a Bluetooth transmitter that does not send actual location data. While chaperones on the excursion will use an iOS and Android application that is linked to your bracelets allowing them to know when a child has moved out of range.

If a child does become separated from the group, their primary chaperone will be alerted before they have a chance to wander too far away, and the alert can be escalated to the group or even to every person who has our application installed on their phone.

What makes our service unique is that all the chaperones are linked to one another. This means if a child moves between groups, their chaperone will know that the child is not actually lost. Chaperones will be able to communicate and coordinate either moving the child between their groups in the app or meeting in person to swap kids back.

Testimonials

I was a chaperone on a school trip from our Connecticut school to New York City for the day. We toured and had a great day. When we were back on the bus and an hour out of the city, someone noticed that one child was missing. We had to go back, and were able to reunite him with the group, but there was a lot of stress and worry. If we had Gaggle, the chaperone would have been alerted within a minute of leaving that there was one child missing from the bus. They would be able to see that this child was not with any other chaperone and could then escalate the alert to the rest of the group – or everyone with the Gaggle app. Gaggle is amazing. If we had this when we went to New York we never would have lost that boy.

Lisa C

Parent

I regularly lead groups of elementary school children who are not normally exposed to open natural spaces. On a recent trip, I noticed that one boy was not with my group any more. We carry walkie-talkies to communicate with each other on these outings. I called to Oscar (the other docent) to ask him if the boy with with his group, but Oscar was busy and did not respond right away. I had my group huddle together while we tried to figure out where this boy may have gone. After about five minutes Oscar called back and told me that the boy switched groups. If I had Gaggle, the app would have told me that the boy was no longer nearby, but was in Oscar’s group. I would have messaged Oscar in the app to ask him to adopt the boy into his group and then continued on the hike with no interruption.

Paul W

Docent

It was our pleasure to test the app out today! The students felt very special that they were the first ones to use it. Overall, I really like the idea and think it’s beneficial for teachers and chaperones on field trips! It was easy to use and easy to understand.

Kelly N

Teacher