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Looks interesting; installed. I toyed around with gps/locator collars(findster) but unfortunately the quality was junky and the battery life was horrible, so I
by oh_sigh 7y ago
Looks interesting; installed. I toyed around with gps/locator collars(findster) but unfortunately the quality was junky and the battery life was horrible, so I had no faith it would do its job when I needed it.
How close does someone with the app need to get to the tag before it phones home?(nevermind, FAQ says ~300 ft, which is really good. It seems like if you can see the animal, you can probably get it's beacon id?)
Do you triangulate positions from multiple users, or show a general track of the animal over time?
Are you partnering with big driving orgs (ups, Uber, etc) or parks departments to get more readers on the streets?
What's your revenue model?
- xenospn 7y agoCan be several hundred feet in an open field, YMMV in an urban environment. On the other hand, I don't want to have too big of a radius in town, closer is better. There's a reason you don't really see dogs wearing GPS collars - even with LTE-M, the experience is still not good and I don't think there's product market fit. Absolutely - partnering up with Ride shares is on my roadmap, as well as sticking antennas in Drones and I'm filing a patent for automatically dispatching rideshares that can triangulate a missing pet even if there's no other sensors around.
- xenospn 7y agoRevenue is subscription based - people pay for higher range or custom tag designs. Making the product nice to touch and having multiple designs is extremely important. People really like that!
- StreamBright 7y agoI think the last 30 years of development pushed us towards a inefficient high power usage direction that was not followed by a revolution in energy storage. The end result is that we charge our phones at least once a day. If energy storage was developing the same pace we would be charging once a year.