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Thank you! How large of an area would you need location tracking?
by captainredbeard 7y ago
Thank you!
How large of an area would you need location tracking?
- leroy_masochist 7y ago220 acres of pasture, contained by physical fencing (could be used to mount hardware but does not have 110VAC access). The pastures are interspersed within a larger area that also contains woods and swamps. The biggest pain point that good location tracking would solve for us would be the 6-8 calves we lose each year when they wander off and get hunted, killed and eaten by coyotes. If I could a) get an app-driven alert when an animal leaves the area of pasture she's supposed to be in and b) have a mobile app that shows me where she is in relation to me so I can more easily find a 30-pound dark brown calf hunkered down in the woods at night, I'd be pretty stoked. By the way, there is good LTE coverage where I am, and a lot of farms don't necessarily have great cell coverage, so bear that in mind if you're trying to get a feel for what the larger market might want. What I mean is, there's a mobile-only use case here and there's also a use case where you have a combination web-based UI (farmer's desktop) and an OEM handheld homing device for finding loose animals. If you want to get really fancy you do a Twilio integration and trigger a robocall to the farmer's landline so she wakes up in the middle of the night and logs into the web app to see what's going on.
- captainredbeard 7y agoDo you confirm them to grazing paddocks or are they open range on the 220?