Best pet tracker, what is it good for?
As animal lovers and pet owners you need to carefully choose the best pet tracker for your pet, one of our biggest fears is one of our pets sneaking out and being unable to find them, or God forbid they are sick and we need to go out and just want to track their movement, and we are sure it’s one of your concerns as well.
So, today we decided to review the best pet trackers we could find. Although the list might be small, we decided to go for quality over quantity. We will compare the trackers regarding the subscription fees, range, and a lot more.
Above all, our pets are like our family, so we will make sure to recommend reliable trackers, that won’t fail when the need arises.
what is a tracker?
First, we will begin by explaining, what is the tracker and what is the science behind it.
A tracker is a device that sends its live location in different ways such as Bluetooth, RF “Radio Frequency, LTE, 3G, 4G, or even GSM, it has a sensor that can detect the current location in X, Y, Z, and broadcast or send it to the paired device, called GPS!
How do Trackers work?
You will need to pair it with something to be able to communicate with it and locate the device. Some devices will be in two parts, one as a sender and the other as a locator or receiver.
Modern technologies allow us to use smartphones as a locator while the new senders or trackers could be both sender and receiver at the same time which is called passive connection.
There are several technologies, some of which require subscription fees, and some of them not, and we will discuss both with you.
Dependency on pet tracker.
After all, when it comes to a device like this it’s important to choose wisely because it might be vital for our friend and you might depend on it if for some reason you can’t find your pet.
The order you will see in this article will be from best to worst “Although there is no worst, all the devices are the best in the market”, however, If I’m buying I’ll start from the top to the bottom.
By the time of writing this article some devices might be out of stock, you could search for it on eBay, if you can’t find it then you might want to consider a replacement.
Our judgment is based on accountability, lifetime span, price, and durability, and we do get a commission from any sale that occurs using any of the links below. So, let’s get into it.
We will start with a GPS tracker because it covers a lot more distance than we will cover Bluetooth trackers
SAMSUNG Galaxy SmartTag
SAMSUNG Galaxy SmartTag
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It’s all about offline tracking and coast reduction vs accuracy, it does the same job as the fancy trackers do with the advantage of using Samsung internal system to find the chip anywhere in the world using Samsung devices using offline tracking function.
Mini 4G Pet GPS Tracker
So this one in here I think should be a very big winner, you need to test it very well first and push it to the edges.
Mini 4G Pet GPS Tracker
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While it should do the job, we were not able to test it yet, it looks promising and functional well, but you should test it very well before trust it.
GPS 25000 PRO
This one here is a little expensive, but we think it’s great compared with some other products, what is good about these is that you can build it in with any network, again this is a live situation, please make sure to test it very well before depending on it.
Besides. we think we can tweak it and increase battery time, the only downside we could find is its weight, this is 250 g without the belt, so it might not be a good fit for small-size dogs.
GPS 25000 PRO
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If you are expecting not to far more than 2-7 KM from you pet, not more than 24 hours, then it would be good tracker.
we really could not find any other trackers to add to this list, if we found something good we will keep you updated. Feel free to leave us a comment if you tried any of these trackers, and if there were any downsides. Which one do you guys think is the best? Did you try a different tracker from those listed and it works great for you? Go ahead and share it all with us.