HOLIDAY CHECKLIST

Morning all - got this article from "Safety Talk" - take care out there on your holiday and please drive safely, we want you back next year, bright eyed and bushy tailed and ready to face the year!

Well it's that time of year again where our thoughts turn to the holidays and we start gearing down for the trek away over December. Not the baddies though, they start gearing up for Christmas, shopping lists to fulfil you know! So what can you do about it? As usual, be vigilant, it always happens when you least expect it.

Have you seen 'The Real Hustle' on BBC Prime, shows you 'real life' scams and how to look out for them. You need a polygraph to believe anyone nowadays, you know you've been had when the same guy whose bike ran out of petrol, and took you for R20 yesterday, is outside the same shopping center again today!

We spoke about the Voice Alarm before, - keeping you safe when you are at home. "There's someone on the patio" Great at 2:00 in the morning when you are not sure exactly how strong that sliding door catch is - but they don't even get a chance to try it! How about a torch with a built in video camera? Now you can't even take a pee in peace at the caravan park.

Talking of which, how about a portable Pepper Gas alarm, great in tents too. What about a PVR? No, not a video recorder, a personal vehicle recovery solution. Where is your son, daughter, driver, boat, caravan, jet-ski, motor bike, caravan, quad, 4X4? Not much bigger than a packet of cigarettes, it is a GSM/GPRS/SMS tracking device, and if that doesn't mean anything to you it doesn't matter - when something is lost it tells you where it is, via an SMS to your cell phone or on Google Earth! (If you have a Garmin you know where you are, but nobody else does, so this unit SMSes them!)Put one in your bakkie and you can set it up to SMS you if it leaves a specific area, with direction and speed. Daughter phones and says she's broken down "but I don't know where" now you do, SMS the unit and it will reply with her location. And it's DIY, put it in the cubby hole and plug it into the lighter if you want to keep it portable, or install it behind the dash and connect it to immobilise the vehicle if you like.

How about a R30K mountain bike, now there's a dangerous sport, and that's just from the passers by, wait till they fall off - put one under the seat. Instead of tearing around Diepsloot like one of my mates, offering a R5K reward for information for the recovery of his pride and joy.

So now you jump in your car and set off on holiday. You've stopped the paper delivery, a friend will empty your post box every few days and your outside lights are on an automatic timer - good start. Now what happens if the power trips, no lights at night, no security a day or two later, a king's ransom in Koi fish - but why are they floating? You need the GSM add on for any alarm, enables you to switch your alarm on and off via your cell phone, get activation alerts (check on your armed response company) Power failures and battery low signals will be sent to you instantly, as will the power back on (when your mate fixes it). And when you are home again and you rush out and can't remember if you switched on the alarm - SMS it, and it'll give you a full report!

So now you're told that so many people lost their remotes to your complex over Christmas that you all need to have yours reprogrammed - why not have a Global Remote installed at the gate, works on a dropped call from your cell phone, whose numbers have to be pre-programmed into the remote to accept the instruction. Now you don't have a remote to lose or break, if the property managers had known about this before, they wouldn't have had to buy them all in the first place. It's a wireless intercom as well. Haven't you been to visit friends and there's "something wrong with the intercom" so they have to walk halfway to the gate, while waving furiously with their remote control? Why? Our products are all GSM and wireless.

Be Safe!

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