According ASPCA, every year, only about 17 percent of lost pets in shelters are reunited with their families. Return-to-owner rate for electronic searching and ID pets was over 45 percent.
Of the dogs entering shelters, 26% who came in as strays are returned to their owner. Of the cats rate is less than 5% returned to their owners. These statistics led to an electronic engineer and a biomedical engineer joined forces to develop a tracking and identification collar for pets. With GPS technology, the system uses the cellular network or Bluetooth on your mobile to make tracking. Besides bringing the ability to send images of the surroundings and a nano drone searcher, if for any reason there are communication problems. It also allows users inside the community App make collaborative Searching.
The “Comm” feature of collar allows dog owners to send out a missing-dog notification to the users community and with collaborative effort, all owners within the network get notified and work together to help locate the pup. By taking advantages of the multiplied distance of all devices and drones, the search range is potentially limitless.
Every member in the app Community has an individual profile set up with their beloved pup and is able to exchange contacts and interact with one another within the network via the app.
“It was a job beyond the technological” says Stephanie Jaraba, she co-creator of the technology has a community of support to meet household pets. On the other hand Ronald Messino another co-creators smiles and says “it took more to please Stef giving comfort to the collar than programing the drone.” It feels in the environment that this couple has had several strong debates.
Petrack.club will be released in the coming months in Indiegogo crowdfunding, they expect to surpass its goal to further improve its development
Source: Press Release