The information in the Edge has to transmitted to the "cops". This is done using a smartphone (a smartphone is your only option for transmitting from the Edges). (Your fliphone won't cut it.)

I'd call what you are looking for "remote tracking". "Tracking" could refer to "recording a track" or "transmitting/sending position/track data to a remote party".

You have two problems: 1- how "something happened" can be determined without you using a "send help" button and 2- transmitting/sending that information to your emergency contact. (Determining your position is easy and not a problem.)

The Edge 1000 Explore solves 1 "reasonably well". One might be able to use a smartphone with an accelerometer.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kael...847680838?mt=8

Things like the Spot allow you to "check in" periodically. I don't see how automatically "checking in" can be done reliably at this point (one could use HR but that would only determine that you were dead). I suppose to missing the ETA to waypoints could be used but I don't know any device that does that. Having the "check in" at any regularity sounds like a nuisance.

For 2 (sending the information to your emergeny contact), there appear to be two available options: 1- using a smartphone to call somebody, and 2- using a satellite network like the Spot devices do (keep in mind that these are communication statellites not GPS statellites).

(Note that you probably aren't going to have whatever you use contact EMS directly.)

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As far as I can tell, the only option that could work for you is the Edge 1000 Explore linked to a smartphone OR just a smartphone with an "incident detection" app.

The Spot won't work because it can't determine "something happened" by itself (you are stuck with using a "send help" button or manually "checking in" periodically). You could do the same thing with a cellphone (though the Spot isn't limited to places with cell-phone reception).