The motivation for Agent.Watch began after hearing of Beverly Carter, an agent with Crye-Leike Realtors® in Little Rock, Arkansas, was wrapping up her workday late on a Thursday afternoon when she went missing.
She set out to meet an unknown prospective buyer at a vacant bank-owned property on the banks of the Arkansas River in Scott, Arkansas, sometime around 5:30 p.m. Central time, according to her husband in a Pulaski County Sheriff’s report.
Carter, 49, was set to show two other properties that day, but never made her next appointments, Steve Brown, executive vice president at Crye-Leike, told Inman News.
Instead, after not being able to get in touch with Carter, her husband drove over to the home and found her locked 2014 Cadillac SRX in the driveway with her purse inside, the front door to the home open and no one there.
Carter’s body was found three days later in a rural area at Argos Concrete Company about 25 miles northeast of Little Rock, Carl Minden, a spokesman for the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office, told AP. Source: Agent.Watch website
Agent.Watch works with a two-pronged approach to personal safety.
The Agent.Watch App records your surroundings and has the capability of sending your online recording to any of your contacts in the event of an emergency. In many instances, someone who knows they are being recorded is usually deterred from the would-be criminal act.
CLOUD BASED VIDEO RECORDING
The app automatically streams video from your Android/iPhone to the cloud (Dropbox) so that in the event of an emergency a recording is retrievable.
PANIC ALARM
Equipped with a panic button, once pushed, the App will automatically send your location & the video of your surroundings to any of the contacts that you designate. It can also dial an emergency number.
AUTOMATIC CHECK-IN
If you are worried about the person you are meeting with, you can request the system check-in with you every few minutes to make sure you're ok. If you don't respond the system will go into panic mode.
PUBLIC AWARENESS
Similarly to a home alarm system, the sign on your lawn is 80% of the battle for deterring unwanted behavior. The fact that you use Agent.Watch for your security and well-being can be promoted through door hangers, pins, buttons, stickers, shirts. Realcomp has ordered 1,000 door hangers for MLS Subscribers and will make them available to you upon request.
Get started by downloading the Agent.Watch app from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store. For more information, visit http://www.agent.watch/#home.
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