Solutions Families

When someone in the family is late, the rest of the family hears first

A teenager driving home, a parent who lives alone, someone out on a run. Each arms a check-in; miss one, and the household is alerted with a last known position.

“Text me when you get there” only works if they remember

Every family has the arrangement. It fails in the one case it exists for: the person who cannot send the text is the one who needed to. And the person waiting for it may be asleep, or assume the phone died. A check-in turns silence into an alert, sent to the whole household, with a place to start.

The nights you lie awake about

Usually it is a flat battery or a friend's couch. The check-in is for the time it is not.

A teenager driving home late

New license, back roads, midnight. They arm a check-in when they leave and clear it in the driveway. If they do not, you are not the only one who finds out, and you know where the car last was.

A parent who lives alone

A daily check-in at breakfast. One tap, and nobody has to call to ask. A morning it is not cleared, the family hears about it that morning, not at the weekend visit.

A run, a ride or a hike

The loop that usually takes an hour. Arm it for ninety minutes. A turned ankle two miles out is a phone call if someone knows to make it.

A late shift, or the last train home

The walk from the station to the door. Arm it on the platform, clear it inside, and nobody has to stay up waiting for a text.

How AlertRoster covers it

  1. 1

    Whoever is heading out arms a check-in

    Pick when you expect to be back and arm it. One tap clears it. Running late? Extend it. A recurring one covers the daily check-in for someone who lives on their own.

  2. 2

    Miss it, and the household is alerted

    On Family, everyone on the account is protected and everyone looks out for everyone else: the household is the roster. A missed check-in alerts them, and if nobody acknowledges, AlertRoster pages again each time an acknowledgement window runs out. The first acknowledgement stands the rest down.

  3. 3

    They see where to look

    With location on for the check-in, the family sees the last known position and the trail on a map, with the time of each point, updating until the incident is closed. Location is shared only for the check-in, and only when it is turned on.

  4. 4

    Past the last bar of signal

    The deadline runs on our servers, not the phone, so a check-in that cannot be cleared is raised exactly as though it was forgotten. For the trips beyond coverage, pair a Garmin inReach: with automatic SOS turned on, a missed check-in while the phone has no signal declares an SOS on it, which Garmin Response receives.

The plans that fit

Billed monthly or annually.

Family

For a household looking out for each other.

$19 / month

Watchers: No watcher-only seats

See every plan and what is in it

Set it up together, before anyone needs it

Pick a plan, add the people who should hear about it, and arm your first check-in.