A system for ascertaining a status of a user and escalating an alarm to a third party, comprising at least one predetermined emergency contact, when the user is in a dangerous situation, without the need for the user to take an affirmative action to escalate the alarm, comprising:
- a server in communication with the user's personal electronic device, said server also in communication with a telephone system, and said server comprising a controller in communication with a server non-transitory computer readable media;
- wherein a check-in time has also been received by the controller from said user via said user's personal electronic device and stored in said server non-transitory computer readable media;
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- wherein event information has also been received by the controller from said user via said user's personal electronic device and stored in said server non-transitory computer readable media, wherein said event information comprises a location of a prospective meeting with a contact, a time and date of said meeting, and contact identifying indicia;
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- wherein said contact identifying indicia has also been received by the controller from said user via said user's personal electronic device and stored in said server non-transitory computer readable media, wherein said contact identifying indicia comprises contact name, telephone number and address of said contact;
- wherein said personal electronic device comprises a geolocation receiver for determining and producing user geographic location information for said personal electronic device, and wherein said geolocation receiver is in communication with a controller of said personal electronic device, and wherein said controller is in communication with a non-transitory computer readable media comprising non-transitory computer executable instructions for reading said user geographic location information from said geolocation receiver and transmitting said user geographic location information to said server;
- wherein said server non-transitory computer readable media also comprising instructions for receiving said user geographic location information from the user's personal electronic device, determining whether the user has arrived at said location of said prospective meeting with said contact within a predetermined time of said time of said meeting, and
- escalating the alarm to the third party in the case in which the user has not arrived at said location of said meeting within said predetermined time of said time of said meeting;
- said server non-transitory computer readable media also comprising instructions for transmitting at said check-in time a telephone call to said user's personal electronic device, said telephone call comprising said pre-recorded audio message to said user's personal electronic device;
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- escalating said alarm to said third party in an event indicating said dangerous situation when said user does not answer said check-in telephone call, or in the event said user does not enter a correct personal identification number when prompted to do so by said pre-recorded audio message;
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- wherein said escalation of said alarm to said third party is further defined as transmission of a message to said third party, said message comprising user identifying indicia of said user, said contact identifying indicia, said user geographic location and said event information;
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- wherein said user identifying indicia comprise at least one of the user's name, age, physical address, email address, telephone number, photograph, or other user identifying information.