The Scottish company Trisent has given unions the jitters by announcing the completion of a system of permanent location identification using everyday portable phones. This will allow for the tracking of individuals and not just vehicles as is sometimes the case at present. Unions were immediately worried about implications for the private lives of employees and the incursion this represents on the climate of trust between employers and employees. (Ref. 06804)
Location information systems already exist, notably of cars, using GPS satellite technology. “But they are expensive, slow and badly adapted to the needs of business.” explains Dr. Gordon Povey, founder and director of the Trisent company. The originality of the Trisent product, specially designed and developed to serve business, resides in the fact that it uses a passive process adaptable to any mobile phone. “It’s always there, it’s not expensive, and it works wherever there’s a network”.
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