LBS and Child King

AeroScout seems to have some valuable solutions in outdoor real-time asset location (RTLS), asset tracking, and patient and staff location in large hospitals. This week they announced a Wi-Fi-based location tracking solution “to reduce accidents and crime involving Japanese schoolchildren”. Scenarios include:

• Automobile drivers are alerted to the presence of nearby children through a voice service, to reduce accidents in residential city areas.
• When a child reaches pre-set points along their route, the system will notify their guardian
• a child can call for help by pressing a button to immediately alert their guardian.

It is fair to ask how such solution can damage the relations that kids build with their environment (testing the limits) by making it so “safe”, how it affects the parents-child relationship (trust relationship) and eventually shape an “enfant roi” (child king).