Hi

We just launched our mobile tracking app "secQ.me" in Android Market
secQ.me is a new way of protecting individual (especially for woman and children) by ofter them a "virtual" guardian angel that watch over them, should they being force in any unwanted situation, or in emergency, our service will automatically notify user's friend and family via email and SMS. User's friend and family could also track their latest location, voice message, picture (if user has taken any picture) from our portal.

For more information about secQ.me, please visit About Secq.Me

A short presentation about secQ.me and demo, please check a demo video we have submitted for YTL Global Developer Challenge below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6UVyxSaxsk


We like to invite Lowyat members to try out our app, go to Android Market, and search "secq.me", and download

Here's are the steps to activate and use our services
1) Register your account from the Android App or our Portal at http://secq.me
2) An activation email will send to your email account, click the activation link
3) Once activated, login to our portal, and configure your emergency contacts, and your SNS (Facebook & Twitter) setting
4) Verify secQ.me Android app by key in your email and your register event pin
5) Start using the services

BTW, all new sign up account will have 10 sms credits, which is use for notification purpose..

Please send in your feedback and comments about our service, and improvement suggestion to support@secq.me


Thanks
James Khoo

This post has been edited by coolboy_kl: Jan 24 2011, 02:39 PM

easily one of the best android app i've come across. already recommend it to my android powered friend

gonna make sure my gf install this when she gets her android phone..

thanks very much, appreciated, do write to us at support@secq.me if you face any issue on using the service

Wow , this is nice. Will give it a go on my GF's phone.

go publish at xda for more reviews .

Thanks, any other website I should submit my App for review, for more people aware it?

androidforums

A quick note:

At this moment, the SMS notification is only limited to Malaysia Number, we are currently working with a international SMS Gateway provider to support SMS notification to most of countries, pls be patient a bit..

Cheers
James Khoo

Hi @coolboy, great works there! Just got one question, does it work if the phone is switched off?

I mean your tracking function.

This post has been edited by lch78: Jan 24 2011, 11:34 AM

Yes, as the event information is register to the server, and each event with end time..
Let me give u a scenario
1) You working late, and u decided to take a Taxi Home
2) U launch our app, register the event,
- Record voice message, typing text message "Taking Taxi home, Taxi number WED1234", or event take picture of the Taxi Driver,
- Enter estimated event duration, for example, you estimate you will reached home in 30 minutes
3) The event is then register a our server, and secQ.me will start reporting your location to our server every 1 minute (This is to save the battery)
4) When the event about to expire, the secQ.me will remind you to confirm your safety with us, if you fail to do so, our server will automatically notify your emergency contacts (sms and email), and update your Facebook and Twitter status.
5) Your friend will then able to track you from our portal, they able to listen to your voice message, and see the picture taken, if require they could download those media files and report to police, if emergency do occur.

Thus if you force turn off the phone, as long as our server didn't receive confirm safety from you at the event end time, it will trigger notification automatically.


To further enhance this, we are currently working to roll out the following features:
a) Event heart beat , as the secQ.me is constantly reporting user's location to our server every 1 minute, user could configure the heart beat duration to our server said, every 3 minutes, i.e if server didn't receive any location update from you for last 3 minutes, it assume that you are in danger, and will trigger notification.

Thus during the register event, if user being force to turn off their phone, our server still able to notify user's emergency contact

b) Shake the phone to trigger emergency - During the register event, user could shake the phone to trigger emergency..

Do let us know what do you think about the features

Cheers
James Khoo
Founder of secQ.me

This post has been edited by coolboy_kl: Jan 24 2011, 11:51 AM

From the video, it looks well done. Any plans to move it to iPhone and Windows mobile device?

We are currently developing our app for iPhone, there is no plan for Windows mobile yet, till there is much demands

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Added on January 25, 2011, 10:09 am
For those who interested, here's a sample page of what user's friend and family will see from our tracking page, if user fail to confirm his/her safety with us.
http://bit.ly/ic8wU7

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Added on January 26, 2011, 12:47 pmBump for more people to try out this App

This post has been edited by coolboy_kl: Jan 26 2011, 12:47 PM

Great!, this app is truly one of best security app, some more 100% Malaysia made, Malaysia boleh..

Any plan for iPhone, as most of my friend are iPhone user..

great job there james.

Thanks, we do plan to launch secQ.me iPhone to App Store by the end of Feb, and we will do announce at Lowyat iPhone section.

Cheers
James

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Added on February 2, 2011, 4:35 pmJust a quick update, secQ.me could now send SMS notification to most of countries.

So if your love one is at oversea, and you want them to get notify immediately when you are inemergency, or danger. You could do so by login to our portal at secQ.me Portal, and configure your emergency contacts accordingly..

On the other hand, if your love one is at oversee (for example, if you have daughter study at UK,USA, or other countries) and you wants to notify via SMS the moment they are in danger, you could ask your love one to download our app from Android Market, and configure you as their emergency contact.

For a list of country supported, please check our blog at http://blog.secq.me

Cheers
James Khoo
secQ.me founder.


This post has been edited by coolboy_kl: Feb 2 2011, 04:35 PM

Cool!, now I can track my BF working at USA...

well done.

Hi

Some update:
1) Please check out our website for a short comic on introducing our service.
2) The android market download rate is not up to our expectation, does anyone knows how to boost the download rate?


Also, do anyone have contact information for ERING Editors, am thinking to contact them to discuss possibilities to cover an article on my app..

Thanks in Advance

James Khoo
secQ.me Founder

it this app need both parties to have this application in order to make the notification works?

Hi Nepomz

Nope, this app does not require both parties to have this application to make the notification works.

When user subscribe our service, user could login to our portal at http://secq.me to configure emergency contacts by entering their name, their email address, and their mobile number, in the event user are in emergency/danger situation, or fail to confirm their safety with us on pre-register event, user's emergency contact will get notify via email and SMS.

More over, our user could also link their Facebook or Twitter account with us, doing so allows secQ.me to post a status update to your FB/TW, in hoping more of your FB/TW friend will able to help you, should you in any danger situation. Please note that we respect user privacy, and we only notify to user FB/TW only if user allows us to do so, and user could turn on and off notification easily at our portal.

User's emergency contacts, and FB/TW friend will able track user's location location, event detail (voice message or any picture taken) from our tracking page.

We have come a short comic on typical usage of our service at our portal, visit our portal at http://secQ.me, and click the little lady icon (Ms Cindy) for a short slide show..


Cheers
James Khoo
secQ.me