DigiSoft.tv, a provider of IPTV Solutions, and Tech Mahindra, a provider of telecommunications IT services solutions, announced the release of DigiTracker™. This application will allow TV viewers such as parents to see the current location of their children's mobile phone on their TV screen. It will also allow text or SMS messages to be sent to that phone. DigiTracker uses integrations to Location Based Services and mapping systems to enable the plotting of a mobile location on a map and displaying it on the TV.
This is an example of an attractive service that TelcoTV operators add to their IPTV services. Verizon Wireless offers a mobile phone tracking service already. Adding a display capability to FiOS TV would be a nice adjunct.
Of course, a smart kid will leave his phone at a friends house if he is going to leave his prescribed area. It will probably take his parents a while to figure that one out.
I wrote about this in a report that I did for the Multimedia Research Group last year on IMS and IPTV. It is nice to see somebody doing something about it.
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