Everyday millions of professionals, voluntarily put themselves in situations where possibility of physical harm and violence is considerably high. Their job requires them to meet total strangers inside houses with no other person present. These groups of people include real estate agents, home healthcare providers, house cleaners, property inspectors, delivery personnel, and house repair service providers. These jobs require a high degree of trust to total strangers. In most cases things go well, but there are many instances that these professionals have been subject of assault, harm and murder.

Real Estate Agents

Real estate agents are one of these groups whose job requires them to trust total strangers and agree to meet them in empty houses. Real estate agents host open houses where anyone off the street can simply walk in and interact one on one. Their daily job requires them to meet potential buyers who they have never met, in a vacant house that is openly advertised for sale, to tour the property. The agent and the potential client walk in to an empty house, close the door, walk throughout the house including the bedrooms, basement, garage, and wherever the house has to offer.

Home Healthcare

Home healthcare professionals include nurses, case workers, physical therapists, and nurses aides. These individuals are sent to places that they have never been. They walk in to houses that are closed off to outside, to provide assistance to a member of that household. They are in situations where should they face any danger, they have a hard time to escape

At Home Service Providers

Property inspectors, cleaning people, interior designers, and other at home service providers walk in to an unfamiliar house, meeting people who they have given trust, even though they may not be trustworthy.

Safe or Sorry

Though most of these calls go well, the internet is littered with situations where it has not. If you read through our resource page you will see how many cases of extreme harm have been reported in the media. Note that these are extreme and nationwide noteworthy cases. For everyone that has resulted in extreme, there are many who have not made it to public or have not been reported.

All companies, including all real estate broker houses, require their employees to go through some sort of safety training. But due to the nature of the relationship between agents and brokers, the responsibility is ultimately on the independent agent to make sure they get home to their families, unharmed.

There are many tools offered to real estate agents as part of their safety training. They are told to carry around pepper spray, mace spray, noise makers, knifes, or even guns. Though they are good theoretical solutions, they are unpractical during times of need. How would your clients feel if you are walking around with them with a pepper spray, knife or gun in hand? And if you do not carry it around with you, how would they be helpful when you are attacked in the basement when your protection devices are in your purse?

Technology has come to offer solutions to realtors. There are many companies that have developed apps and push buttons to activate those apps to summon help. Assuming that the app is always active, and your push button is with you at all times, when an attack is imminent, they only solution is to ask for help from people remote to the location. In these situations time is of essence, and even motivated and readily available remote helpers cannot fight the time that it takes to get to the location. Though they might get to the site, most of the time they will be late to prevent harm. Until Now!!!!

Crime of Opportunity

There are a few elements that make these jobs inviting to criminals.

One-on-One

In most cases the individual service provider is alone. Real estate agents are always alone when they meet their new or existing clients. Home healthcare personnel are also individual service providers who enter a house in all cases by themselves, with no one else to support them.

Location

In all cases the scene of the crime is a house with no one around other than the criminal and the targeted victim. The house is closed off, is silent with sound barriers with no visibility from outside the house.

Surprise

In all cases the victim is unprepared and is not expecting harm. All these service providers trust the public as they are there to serve. This trust in general public and their false sense of recognizing good from evil causes them to drop their guards and be unprepared to fight and defend themselves.

Unlike other systems on the market, Guardian VDS is not developed to help apprehend the assailant. It is designed to deter the assailant from continuing what has been attempted. Guardian VDS offers multiple levels of assistance. The system turns your car in to an unstoppable call for help.

Upon activation, the system sounds a very loud siren sound that attracts the attention of the people local to your location. The amber flashing light will help identify the site for all helpers. The system is preprogrammed by the owner with phone numbers for people near the location of visit and emergency assistance including 911. In addition for the local call for help, the system makes actual voice phone calls to people on the list and informs them of the need for their assistance. The call for help is a pre recorded message from the owner, so the call recipients will recognize the voice, and fully understand the message. In addition to the voice message of the owner with the actual address of the location, the system also communicates the GPS coordinates of the location to facilitate locating the individual should the address of the location not be known the helper.

Unlike other systems that rely o the cellular phone of the owner, Guardian GPS has its own calling system and cannot be stopped by the assailant. Once a call has been initiated, there is no way to stop it other than by entering the car and terminating the call for help, which requires the owner to exit the danger zone and enter the car.

The noise that is generated by the car will act as a deterrent to the attacker. But should the attacker chooses to ignore the threat, the call for help from neighbors, friends, family, and local police will be the secondary threat to the attacker that could make them stop, and think. The system is designed to bring attention to the act that takes away the element of isolation that most criminals count on.