CareBeacon

By  Jonah Comstock 07:32 am March 10, 2014
CareBeacon, a startup based in Los Angeles, is offering a low-cost mobile personal emergency response system (mPERS) in the form of an iPhone app. For $8 to $13 per month, users can download an app that will text and call friends and family members when it detects a fall. Just as ProtoGeo's Moves application demonstrated that activity tracking can be done on the smartphone itself, with no need...