Sonim Technologies, makers of the rugged phones, announced at IFSEC a preview of the Sonim XP3340 Sentinel mobile phone, for lone worker safety. According to the firm that product provides users with the longest GPS tracking time of any mobile phone. It’s custom-designed the firm adds for vertical markets especially security guards, facilities management (FM) personnel and traffic wardens.
UK providers of lone worker protection and monitoring services: Argyll, Guardian24, Peoplesafe, Professional Witnesses, SafeLinq , SiteXOrbis and Trackaphone will offer an end-to-end safety solution with the XP3340 Sentinel that also includes an emergency response call centre. The phone will be available starting from July 2011 to the UK security and FM sector though the partners above.
“In the last year, our customers put our previous lone worker product to the test in extreme environments and situations, and thousands of workers are now protected daily by Sonim and our partners,” said Sanjay Jhawar, VP/GM of Marketing and Applications of Sonim Technologies. “The XP3340 Sentinel lasts longer on a single charge than the longest shift, even with GPS tracking and hours and hours of talk time, and further enhances the performance, usability and extreme reliability of the system.”
Sonim say that even wastewater 2 metres deep is no challenge for this IP-68 rated, water and dust proof handset, which can also be dropped from 2 metres onto concrete. The two inch high-resolution display is protected by a 1.5 mm thick Corning Gorilla Glass lens for the highest scratch and shock resistance. Sonim has added a fibreglass mix to the phone’s housing to give it more durability and the phone is certified against salt, fog, humidity, transport shock, and thermal shock and operates in temperatures ranging from minus 20 degrees to plus 55 degrees C.
The Sonim XP3340 Sentinel includes configurable man-down accelerometer technology first seen in the Sonim XP3 Sentinel. Configured over-the-air by the partner monitoring server to match the end user’s specific work scenario, the man-down sensor detects impact, free-fall, prolonged tilt and no-movement at various thresholds, so as to minimise false alarms and reduce the cost of monitoring centre operations.
The Dutch branch of Securitas deployed 250 XP3 Sentinel devices, Sonim’s first Lone Worker phone, in December 2010 – replacing a private mobile radio system. The guarding company says it has been able to decrease its corporate liability and reduce its costs for devices and network access, as well as reduce costs and repair delays for broken devices. A much lower incidence of false alarms has allowed the proactive green button safe-and-well check to be mandated every 15 minutes instead of every 30 minutes, it’s claimed.
