Product category:
Wireless Communications
News Release from: Safe Haven Technologies
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 03 May 2005
Startup focuses on wireless privacy and
security
Safe Haven Technologies is a new company formed with the mission of developing and commercialising mobile device applications in the field of personal privacy and corporate security.
Safe Haven Technologies (SH) is a new company formed with the mission of developing and commercialising mobile device applications in the field of personal privacy and corporate security The first product that SH is commercialising is Safe Haven
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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SH is a spin-out company of Iceberg Intellectual Property (formerly Iceberg Systems), the firm that originally created and incubated Safe Haven since mid 2002.
SH has now assembled an experienced management team, including a former chief engineer of a global network operator and former chairman of a UK technology PLC.
SH has now also secured strategic sales partners in over 35 countries.
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Safe Haven is an internationally patent pending technology that addresses the misuse of camera and video mobile phones in corporations, government buildings, military bases and public areas.
It controls the camera functionality of the phone and disables/enables the camera without affecting any other phone functionality such as its voice and data applications.
The technology is not just applicable to camera phones (with sales of such devices due to exceed 1.9 billion globally within the next five years), but also camera PDAs, laptops and digital cameras with wireless connectivity.
Further product development will allow the core technology infrastructure to control all other applications on the phone remotely which can be used to counter problems such as Bluetooth misuse, ring tone control etc.
The issues surrounding the misuse of camera and video phones have already struck the chords of corporations, governments and societies around the world.
Safe Haven is a solution to problems presently experienced by the major members of the value chain, most notably the network providers, handset manufacturers, corporations, governments and the general public.
SH has received significant interest from a cross-section of these key customers, who are keen to move beyond the current interim solutions which are a "camera sound" that is produced by the phone once a picture is taken that notifies unaware parties of surreptitious photography, a sticker that is positioned on top of the camera lens, phone confiscation, removing the camera from the handset, offering two handsets to the end user, one with an embedded camera and one without.
In stark contrast, Safe Haven provides an intelligent, versatile, technological solution that satisfies the market need.
Particular regions exercising significant concerns are Europe, Middle East, Asia and USA.
SH is presently in progressed discussions with a large number of handset manufacturers, network operators and governments around the world with the purpose of propagating its product within the market, while lobbying for a robust and plausible international standard to address the problem of camera and video phone misuse.
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