{"id":2053,"date":"2016-12-28T17:56:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T17:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.com\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2016-12-28T17:56:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T17:56:37","slug":"trak-n-tells-watchman-keep-car-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2016\/12\/28\/trak-n-tells-watchman-keep-car-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Trak N Tell&#8217;s &#8216;Watchman&#8217; to keep your car safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vehicle telematics technology company Trak N Tell on Wednesday rolled out a vehicle security feature that instantly transforms users&#8217; smartphone into an alarm clock, alerting them about potential threats to their cars in real time and take corrective action.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nCalled &#8216;Watchman,&#8221; the feature will be available on all Android smartphones on Trak N Tell app.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the app alerts customers with an &#8216;Ignition on&#8217; notification on their smartphones whenever they or someone else starts their car. However, currently users are not alerted in case they are away from their devices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This feature is quite akin to a colony guard knocking on one&#8217;s door to inform them about any security issues, in this case, issues related to the customer&#8217;s car and arrange for necessary action to resolve the same,&#8221; said Pranshu Gupta, CEO, Trak N Tell, in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>While the feature will be initially launched on Android-based smartphones, an iOS version is expected to be launched by early 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The existing customers will be notified about this feature following the successful upgrade of the software running on all Intelli7 devices &#8212; a GPS device that fits in a car and provides real-time information to the car owners about the vehicle&#8217;s location &#8212; deployed so far.<\/p>\n<p>Once done, customers will be able to upgrade Trak N Tell app from the Google Play Store and explore the various aspects of the &#8216;Watchman&#8217; feature.\u2014IANS<\/p>\n<p>Image: Official website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vehicle telematics technology company Trak N Tell on Wednesday rolled out a vehicle security feature that instantly transforms users&#8217; smartphone into an alarm clock, alerting them about potential threats to their cars in real time and take corrective action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}