في مجتمع اليوم, المزيد والمزيد من الناس يحبون الاحتفاظ بالحيوانات الأليفة, ويتزايد أيضًا استثمار الناس في الحيوانات الأليفة. If a pet is lost, it is a huge loss for the pet owner. People cannot watch their pets 24 hours a day. There will always be other things to do for work and life, and the care of all pets has become a headache. To address this demand, many companies have launched their own pet trackers. Pet trackers are important tools for ensuring pet safety, with a variety of types including GPS collars, portable devices, and Bluetooth. When making a purchase, attention should be paid to positioning accuracy, battery life, and signal stability. Next, let’s talk about the top pet tracker products for 2024 and the key points for choosing a pet tracker.
Top صet Trackers in 2024
فيكسون صet Tracker
Phixson is a professional smart device manufacturer with years of experience in manufacturing smart products, especially in the field of smart homes. Phixson has rich technical accumulation in communication technologies such as Bluetooth, Lora, and WiFi, and has also laid out early on in pet smart devices. Phixson pet tracker is an excellent product, and below we will introduce its advantages in detail.
- Real time precise positioning technology: Compared with the positioning delay problem of some locators, Phixson adopts advanced GPS+base station+WIFI multi positioning, greatly improving the positioning speed and accuracy. Even in complex urban environments or remote mountainous areas, it is possible to quickly locate pets and reduce pet owners’ anxiety.
- Intelligent health management: Phixson pet tracker is not just a positioning tool, it also integrates health monitoring functions such as activity tracking, sleep quality analysis, etc., to help owners understand their pets’ daily activity patterns and health status. Compared to products on the market that only provide basic positioning functions, Phixson pet trackers offer a more comprehensive pet care solution.
- Advanced waterproof and anti loss design: The Phixson pet tracker meets the IP68 waterproof standard, which does not affect its normal operation whether walking dogs on rainy days or accidentally getting pets into water. فضلاً عن ذلك, it also has an electronic fence system. When a pet wearing a locator leaves the area of the electronic fence, the locator will immediately send relevant positioning information to the owner through a mobile app. Phixson pet tracker also has a specific anti loss function. When someone removes the locator, it will issue a warning and send a message to the pet owner.
- Long battery life: Although real-time positioning technology is usually more power consuming, Phixson pet trackers use more power to perform real-time positioning every few seconds. Compared to other pet trackers that do not have real-time positioning, they use minutes or even hours of positioning update speed to exchange for long battery life. I highly recommend the importance of having real-time positioning function.
- User Interface and User Experience: The Phixson app has a user-friendly interface and intuitive operation. Users can easily switch and manage multiple pet devices, view pet history trajectories, set safety ranges, and more. Compared to other locators with complex settings or unstable apps, Phixson provides users with a smoother and more efficient user experience.
Hiay Pet Smart Collar
For people who have pets at home, the Hiay pet smart collar is a very practical smart device. It not only tracks the location of pets in real time to ensure their safety, but also provides rich functions to meet the needs of daily pet walking and recording. The design of the collar also takes into account various scenarios in practical use, such as basements, garages, and other places with weak signals. Although the positioning accuracy may vary, multi positioning technology can still maximize the accuracy of positioning. The Hiay pet smart collar has the following advantages:
- Video and voice function: It has a 480P video and voice call function, which can observe the environment where the pet is located and make voice calls, but may be limited by the impact of battery life and pet hair length on its functionality.
- User interface and user experience: The UI is simple and clear, and the corresponding functions can be easily viewed. Equipped with a stylish appearance and matching collar, the appearance is very impressive.
- Accurate positioning function: The product calculates based on WIFI strength, satellite signal, and base station signal strength. During the process of movement, there may be occasional positioning deviations when recording routes due to weak signal sources around or poor mobile phone signals.
- Weight free: Lightweight, pets can wear it freely.
Apple AirTag
AirTag is a Bluetooth tracking device developed by Apple Inc. As a giant in the smart device industry, Apple’s designed products naturally have their unique advantages.
- Compact and lightweight: The AirTag is designed to be very compact, weighing only 11 grams, making it easy to attach to pet collars. For medium to large dogs, there is almost no extra burden, but attention should be paid to the comfort of small dogs and avoiding being too heavy.
- Find My Network: The biggest advantage of AirTag is the ability to utilize the Find My network consisting of hundreds of millions of active Apple devices worldwide. Even if the pet is far away from its owner, as long as there are other Apple devices nearby, the location information can be anonymously and encrypted transmitted to the owner through the Bluetooth signals of these devices, greatly expanding the positioning range.
- Accurate search: Combined with the U1 chip in iPhone (on supported devices), AirTag can provide precise directional search function, helping owners quickly find their pets at close range through sound and visual instructions.
- Durability: With IP67 waterproof and dustproof capabilities, AirTag can be used in various weather conditions and is suitable for pets to wear during outdoor activities.
Basic Working صrinciple of صet Trackers
The pet tracker can successfully send location information to pet owners, and its internal structure cannot do without a positioning module and a communication module. The location module will frequently update its own location information, and then send this information to the pet owner through the communication module, thus achieving positioning and tracking functions. Next, we will analyze the internal structure of a typical pet tracker to further understand its working principle.
GPS module: This is the core part of the positioning system. The pet tracker is equipped with a GPS module and corresponding antenna inside, which can receive signals from GPS satellites. When the locator captures signals from at least four GPS satellites, the precise position (latitude and longitude coordinates) of the locator (and the pet wearing it) on Earth can be determined by calculating the time difference between these signals arriving at the locator.
Mobile communication module: including 2G, 3G, 4G or the latest 5G NB–IoT network, responsible for sending the location information obtained by the GPS module to the cloud server through wireless network. This allows remote access to this data, meaning pet owners can use smartphone applications or computer platforms to view their pets’ locations in real-time.
LBS (base station positioning) and WiFi positioning: In environments with poor GPS signals (such as indoors or densely populated urban areas), pet trackers may use base station positioning or connect to nearby WiFi hotspots to assist in positioning. Although these methods have relatively low accuracy, they can still provide approximate location information of pets to a certain extent.
Other auxiliary functions: Modern pet locators often integrate more functions, such as motion monitoring, electronic fences, trajectory playback, and intelligent alarms. The electronic fence function can immediately notify the owner when the pet leaves the preset safe area; Sports monitoring can help owners understand their pets’ daily activity levels; Trajectory replay can display the movement path of pets in the past period of time.
Factors to Consider When Choosing a صet Tracker
Battery life limit: Despite manufacturers’ efforts to extend battery life, most pet trackers still require regular charging. Frequent charging may cause inconvenience to some users, especially when pets are out for long periods of time or traveling.
Fluctuations in positioning accuracy: Although technology continues to advance, GPS signals may be affected in specific environments (such as densely populated city centers, deep forests, or mountainous areas), leading to a decrease in positioning accuracy, sometimes resulting in position offset or update delay.
Additional fees: In addition to the purchase cost, some high-end pet locators may also require subscription service fees to maintain functions such as location services, cloud storage, and data analysis. In the long run, this may be a significant expense.
Equipment size and comfort: In order to accommodate necessary electronic components and batteries, pet locators usually have a certain size and weight. For small pets, wearing them may not be comfortable enough, affecting their daily activities.
Waterproof and durability issues: Although most products claim to have waterproof functions, in actual use, if not maintained properly or subjected to extreme conditions, water leakage or damage may still occur, shortening the lifespan of the equipment.
Dependent on smartphones and the internet: The use of pet locators often requires the use of smartphone applications, which means that it may not be possible to obtain real-time location information of pets when there is no internet connection or the phone is not nearby.
Privacy and Data Security: The use of pet locators involves the collection and transmission of pet location data, and users may be concerned about the security and privacy protection of their personal data.
The above issues are all factors that need to be considered and measured. Because pet locators are ultimately intelligent products, they prevent excessive reliance from causing frequent incidents of lost pets.
I have summarized the advantages of several pet locators that are commonly used around me for everyone to refer to and then learn about before starting.
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With the increasing number and variety of pets, the types of pet trackers are also constantly expanding. Many pet trackers may be designed to meet the specific needs of a certain type of pet, and one pet tracker cannot meet the needs of all pets. When choosing a pet locator, it is necessary to comprehensively consider one’s own needs and the characteristics of the pet. At the same time, it is also necessary to carefully understand the performance, functions, and warranty services of the product before purchasing, in order to ensure the purchase of a safe and reliable product.
