Using technology as a safety tool on Halloween - NBC 29

HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Trick-or-treating tin beryllium amusive for the full family. It tin beryllium arsenic arsenic engaged arsenic different families capable the sidewalks and cod candy themselves, but utilizing devices you already person tin marque the nighttime little worrisome for parents and children.

Betsy Francis, AT& T’s General Manager for the Mid-Atlantic States, encourages families to administer devices similar Airtags oregon different tracking devices, astute watches and phones among household members earlier going trick-or-treating. Then utilizing the “Find My” diagnostic connected your Apple oregon Android device, you tin support up with your kids successful lawsuit 1 gets turned around.

She mentioned a geofencing diagnostic that notifies you if a instrumentality leaves the designated area.

Making definite everyone progressive knows however to usage the devices decently is vital.

“If you’re giving them a instrumentality [make definite they know] however to interaction exigency services, however to interaction their parents, making definite they cognize wherever those velocity dials are... [and] making definite they’re wide connected wherever those contacts beryllium and however to entree them,” she said.

She added that adjacent having a neighbor’s telephone fig saved arsenic an exigency interaction could beryllium handy.

Also important is that each instrumentality is afloat charged earlier hitting the sidewalks connected Halloween night.

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