that can be associated with a panic button

In a small business, managers know that is moving and where. In a very large, the exercise verges on delirium. 187.000 Employees France Telecom, for example, 60,000 are likely to travel. When a threat, should block those who are going and then locate those who are exposed to give them advice, put them to the shelter, or even prepare their exfiltration. Several types of actors today provide localization tools. Their software perform a "tracking" of the people viewing the number of employees in each country, to list with a click on a map. Searches are possible by zooming by country, airline... The tool enables the automatic sending of e-mails or SMS, targeted only travellers affected by an event.

Specialized software

Localization is possible through the declarations requested travellers when booking tickets. But some spend between the cracks. Travel agencies have developed the automatic data recovery from the GDS (global distribution systems). TrackPoint of American Express travel business, for example, presents updated every four hours initial bookings or modified aircraft, hotels, restaurants or payments made by the Amex card. The limit of these applications is that a traveller is "traced" as long as it complies with its business travel policy and spent its bookings by the authorized agency. If a company has several agencies, it must consolidate its sources.

The synthesis is possible in several ways: for example, by specialists security (type safety without borders, Geos, Crisis Consulting or International SOS), who developed the same type of connected software on several travel agencies. The category of "self booking tools" (SBT) centralizes also all information since these software allows business to business travellers make themselves since their computers their reservation requests, then validated by the agency or travel agencies.

Finally, a company may purchase its own software. Ulysses Travel & Expenses Etap On Line Editor, for example, manages "workflow" validation of the missions and may require a form before any departure. The Dimo management, its editor, has created the Notilus corporate portal, which is an entry point travel unique referring on the computer of all the providers (travel agencies, SBT, direct bookings, credit card...) which can collect data on travellers.

But nothing is more accurate than the tracking of a person in real time from a mobile (phone, PDA, tag...) that can be associated with a "panic button". The latter may also be separated in a Pocket box connected by Bluetooth, therefore actionable even theft of the laptop, provided they respond quickly.

A simple mobile phone has the ability to locate the carrier, but this use faces to the confidentiality of personal data, administrative permissions and the large number of operators in the world. A gap opened by some operators offering a tracing via their laptop for children or the elderly. For example, a mobile phone with its formula data (GPRS) is already proposed as a geolocation tool by some actors of the safety of people internationally, such as Geos or Crisis Consulting. Their portable computers represent a cost-effective solution that allows a good coverage of populated areas. But in a situation of war, telecoms are often cut and mobile infrastructure covers the seas or deserts. These actors offer so in parallel a satellite solution that escapes to the local political risk and covers around the world but is very expensive and work poorly in urban concrete. It is mainly sold in the country at risk of kidnapping because it allows monitoring streaming out of the cities.

In practice, geolocation of an employer housing is often seen as a cookie. French security without borders (SSF) therefore launched three months ago a tag satellite distress related to a contract for the U.S. insurer ACE (1,500 euros per year). This weatherproof housing, which does not voice, does not tracking but locates only when it is triggered, its carrier around the world to 120 metres close by issuing continuously for 24 hours, normally leaving relief time to achieve.