Abstract The Beidou satellite navigation system is currently one of the most advanced navigation systems on an international scale. The purpose of this work is to design a system framework based on the Beidou navigation system for the positioning and tracking of children. The novel system designed in this work includes a Beidou satellite system, a tracker assembly mounted on the sole of a child’s shoe, a guardian’s cell phone terminal and a monitoring computer terminal. In particular, the present work creates a new tracker assembly that is communicatively connected to the guardian’s mobile phone terminal and the monitoring computer terminal through the Beidou satellite system, respectively. This paper designs and implements an effective monitoring and tracking of children’s location based on Beidou navigation, which is worth promoting and applying