Kinotracker
Kinotracker is a remote location tracker system for dogs
The kinotracker is a device that sends the location of the dog via a wireless transceiver to an Android App.
The Android app stores all positions in the local database and shows a map with current positions of the dogs.
goals
- High accuracy (1m)
- must be able to track one or more dogs
- live tracking (1 update per 1, 5, 10, 30 or 60 seconds)
- long range (>600m)
- Upload data to internet to accomodate large-scale search operations
- minimum 24 hours operation time (at the highest update frequency)
- waterproof and dog-proof
- must be able to compete more or less with the $500 Garmin Astro professional dogtrackers
current status
- proof-of-concept hardware is working stable
- proof-of-concept software (Android App & Arduino Firmware) is working stable
todo in the next 2 months
cleanup code
do something with rssi and tdm information from radios
*multidog features
documentation
https://github.com/ReinVelt/kinotracker/edit/master/Documentation/
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