Personal security system comprising of software and hardware for providing alarm status by transmitting and receiving signals from both fixed and mobile devices and other information to a remote station; personal security alarms; electronic security token in the nature of a fob-like device used by an authorized user of a computer system to facilitate authentication; personal pagers; network pagers; integrated pagers; computer hardware, namely, wireless network base stations, hubs, routers, transmitters, receivers, and repeaters; computer software for application and database integration; interfaces for computers; central hubs for computer networks; two-way radios; emergency position-indicating radio beacons; telecommunications and data wireless networking hardware; telecommunications and data wireless networking software for providing a self-forming and self-healing wireless network; telecommunication base stations; electronic devices for locating people using an alarm device which sends location information via a beacon; electronic devices for locating and tracking people, equipment, and assets using wireless networks, mesh networks, cellular communication networks, or global positioning systems; telemetry devices using mesh radio networks; electronic apparatus and equipment for monitoring plants, factories, offices, hospitals and other institutions; wireless transmitters for use in emergency communication