Is there any Lone Working equipment that can be bought that does not need a monitoring centre?

I have distantly heard about an app for smartphones (or similar) which can be linked to the company's computer system and therefore allows the company to self monitor - is this correct and can anybody point me in the right direction please about procurement and cost.

Cheers

Rich

Thanks hopeful but I don't want to use a commercial call centre who charge about £10 per person per month - this would cost me about £650 and being 3rd sector is cost prohibitive.

I want to be able to monitor my staff from my company's own computer system.

Therefore, picking up your usage of the word "accredited" how do I go about getting accredited?

Thanks for your reply.

Rich

Hi Rich,
My understanding is that to become an accredited alarm receiving centre (ARC), i.e. one which the police will trust because staff are trained,you would need to achieve both BS:8484 and BS:8591

"BS:8484 gives recommendations for the provision of lone worker device (LWD) services. It applies to suppliers of LWD services, either for their own operations or to customers. It gives the principles and operational procedures to be implemented by an ARC so that controllers can verify activation messages received from LWDs and assist response services when reacting to requests for assistance from lone workers. BS 8484 will also help to minimize the number of false alarms received by response services."

"BS:8591 - This British Standard covers the planning, construction and facilities of manned and unmanned centres, and for the operation of receiving signals from alarm systems other than fire, social, CCTV, lone worker devices and vehicle tracking."

Having visited such a centre (run by a client) I'd suggest that meeting such standards just to monitor one workforce (and on a limited budget) probably isn't viable.