GPS technology has come a long way in the past few years. It has also become much less expensive. Now the units are affordable for keeping track of pets that may wander away from home. Man’s best friend is no longer helpless and lost when he leaves the yard.
Pets are lost for many different reasons. Sometimes they escape from the house or pen. Other times they are stolen. They may have wandered out of the yard and been picked up by animal control, thinking that they are a stray. With GPS being available on so many devices, someone came up with the idea of adding a unit to a dog collar. Just click a button and get that precious pet back home.
With the GPS unit attached to the collar, whenever your pet is found to be missing, you turn on the system with your cell phone. A SMS is sent to the receiver on the collar. The SIM card returns the location to the cell phone. Within seconds, you have located the dog. In addition, you can give the dog a certain circle in which he is allowed to roam. If he passes that circle, you will get an alert.
There are to differing types of the system available. First, a system is available that has a high upfront cost. This system has no monthly fee. Second there is a system that has little upfront cost but requires that you pay monthly for the service. The latter only notifies you when you dog is outside his circle.
You will find these devices available in many differing brand names. This allows you to choose the system that works best for you and fits in your budget.
The system was developed by two different companies, one for hardware, the second for software. Petlink is one of the software companies and Telia provides many of the devices.
The first party is the company who make the manufactures the devices hardware, like the SIM card you put on the dogs collars. The second party is the company who makes the software programming. The best example of the second party companies is Petlink. It is a leading company in that service, and it chose to partner with Telia company in providing these devices to the public.
We love our pets and treat them as part of the family. Why not make the investment to be sure that they are always safe and will be safely found.
