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Behind the Windshield June 30, 2017

An Alert for Windshieldink Alerter

Windshieldink’s goal is to improve everyone’s experience on the road by continuing to expand our license plate messaging platform for the public good.  Our online service called Alerter is designed to help with amber alerts and help locate missing vehicles.  For example, it will allow you to check on that strange vehicle parked in your back alley.  The Alerter service works inside our mobile app.  There is no need to do anything different while using the app to access the Alerter databases.

What is Windshieldink?

Windshieldink is a free mobile vehicle messaging platform launched in late 2016.  The app allows anyone to make themselves reachable via their license plate number should an issue arise with their vehicle. With Windshieldink there is no excuse why you can’t be contacted if your car is going to be towed or if your car alarm is going off.  Though our app is designed for license plate messaging, the integration of Windshieldink Alerter provides added benefits to our users and the general public.

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How does Alerter work? 

You are a police department looking for a stolen vehicle.  You are a trucking company looking for a missing trailer. Perhaps the public can help you find what you are looking for.

Our Alerter database allows you to post the license plate, vehicle description, and a user instruction message. Any member of the public concerned about a suspicious vehicle that seems out of place can use our app to verify the license plate.  The app automatically checks the Alerter database to see if an authority in any location is looking for that vehicle.

If the license plate is posted Alerter, an in-app pop-up message will verify the vehicle description and display information identifying the authority looking for it.   Using the app, a person easily sends a direct message to that authority.  The message can be sent anonymously and can include a GPS location for the vehicle.  Even if the vehicle is from a different jurisdiction, the app will flag the vehicle as an alert vehicle if it is registered with Alerter.

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These days missing vehicle alerts are communicated on social media, television, and radio but these methods have their limitations. Many people will not see or hear about the alert or they may forget about it soon afterwards. Furthermore, if a missing vehicle is taken to another city or province, the residents there would not even be aware of that vehicle alert. Windshieldink solves this problem by making the alert accessible no matter where or when it was posted.

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The addition of Alerter to the Windshieldink platform will not result in any changes to the functionality of the app for our users.  Anytime a license plate is entered in the license plate input field, our verification step will automatically check the Alerter database before checking any of Windshieldink’s other license plate databases. If the vehicle is not missing, the app will continue with its normal messaging functionality with other users, fleets vehicles, or Connects ID’s.

Windshieldink wants to help

Our goal is to give the public a simple way of helping the authorities find missing vehicles. We will continue to move forward to expand with even more great services built upon our platform. We’re driven by our  objective to be one of the most useful apps for vehicle owners and we’re committed to bringing innovative solutions to drivers everywhere.

We hope you enjoyed this article.  Continue to read more of our blogs on our website.  You can also sign up for our newsletter or follow us on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram .

The Windshieldink app is free and available on the App Store and get it on Google Play.  It’s free to download, free to register and free to send messages!

We’re interested in hearing from you.  Send your comments or questions to admin@windshieldink.com.

Filed Under: Behind the Windshield Tagged With: license plate messaging, license plate theft, police, windshieldink

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