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Toughshield: Keeping Lone Workers Secure
Toughshield’s rugged smartphones can help employers fulfi l their duty of care
ary healthcare workers, maintenance engineers or anyone who works remotely, on their own or at unsocial hours. How do you keep track of their whereabouts and how can they get help if they need it? One solution is the Toughshield R500 rug-
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ged smartphone, a reliable and robust device that combines consumer design and ease of use with specifi c lone worker safety functionality. T e R500 has a dedicated ‘panic button’
that is easy to see and press in an emergency. When confi gured as part of a mobile worker
n employer’s duty of care for worker safety is not easy to fulfi l when those workers are security guards, domicili-
solution it raises an instant alarm that is trans- mitted over the mobile phone network back to base with the phone’s GPS location details. It also has a dedicated ‘push-to-talk’ button to call for assistance. Should the user be unable to press either of these the R500 can even be confi gured to trigger an alarm without user in- tervention using its accelerometer to sense if the phone has been dropped or still for a pe- riod of time. Near fi eld communication (NFC) technol-
ogy can also enhance the safety of lone work- ers. Security fi rms, for example, are using NFC tags and NFC enabled smartphones to capture location information from given points on the
THE R500: A RUGGEDISED NFC DEVICE
SMARTPHONES FOR YOUR SECURITY WORKFORCE Toughshield Security Guarding Devices
Keep your staff safe and
connected anywhere, anytime. Toughshield and its technology partners provide a
variety of Mobile Security Guarding solutions utilising GPS and Near Field Communication (NFC) to include Lone Worker Protection, Man Down, Time & Attendance, Job Scheduling and Remote Monitoring.
Designed to deliver the most comprehensive mobile solution available the ruggedised Toughshield R500 is armed with rich features such as GPS, Push-To-Talk, Dedicated Panic Button, G-Sensor, Accelerometer, NFC, Gorilla Glass and being IP67/MIL810G rated makes it the ideal device for your remote workers no matter how extreme the conditions.
security round. When combined with the date and time, this information proves that the se- curity rounds have been properly carried out but can also be used as a safety system for the guards themselves as alarms can be set up to trigger automatically if workers don’t ‘check-in’ on time.
• For further information on the R500 from Toughshield please
visitwww.tough-shield.com
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