waynefeltham
New Member
Hi all
My first post here.
Firstly I know NOTHING about electronics (hence my post). I have an idea for a pet location product.
Put basically, it would work exactly the same as a mobile phone minus the keypad, and screen...
A consumer would buy a collar for their pet (lets say it's a cat); they would then have to purchase or use an existing standard SIM card and put it into the collar.
The owner then sends a specially formatted SMS message to the collar containing a PIN of their choice and an "owners" mobile phone number. This information is stored on the collar within the SIM card (like an address book) and cannot be altered unless the collar is manually reset (again like a mobile phone).
If the cat get's lost, the owner sends an SMS message to the collar containing the 6 digit PIN to activate the collar. The collar can verify the PIN and the number the message was sent from. Once verified, the collar could retrieve it's location (this would be dependant upon the mobile networks but is already in use so I can't see it being a problem) and SMS the details back to the cats owner.
The cat's owner can then use these details to located the cat (or at minimum reduce the search area).
A secondary feature could be that upon an emergency PIN could also be used to activate a beacon on the collar...this could be either a flashing LED or perhaps an audible alert?
This is obviously heavily reliant on the electronics and I want to know if anyone has any thoughts on the viability of this?
Please note, I've been looking around on the web to see if anyone is currently doing this and I've only managed to find something similar for dogs but it isn't mobile phone based. If anyone knows of an existing product, please also post a reply...I want one for my remaining cat
Cheers
Wayne
My first post here.
Firstly I know NOTHING about electronics (hence my post). I have an idea for a pet location product.
Put basically, it would work exactly the same as a mobile phone minus the keypad, and screen...
A consumer would buy a collar for their pet (lets say it's a cat); they would then have to purchase or use an existing standard SIM card and put it into the collar.
The owner then sends a specially formatted SMS message to the collar containing a PIN of their choice and an "owners" mobile phone number. This information is stored on the collar within the SIM card (like an address book) and cannot be altered unless the collar is manually reset (again like a mobile phone).
If the cat get's lost, the owner sends an SMS message to the collar containing the 6 digit PIN to activate the collar. The collar can verify the PIN and the number the message was sent from. Once verified, the collar could retrieve it's location (this would be dependant upon the mobile networks but is already in use so I can't see it being a problem) and SMS the details back to the cats owner.
The cat's owner can then use these details to located the cat (or at minimum reduce the search area).
A secondary feature could be that upon an emergency PIN could also be used to activate a beacon on the collar...this could be either a flashing LED or perhaps an audible alert?
This is obviously heavily reliant on the electronics and I want to know if anyone has any thoughts on the viability of this?
Please note, I've been looking around on the web to see if anyone is currently doing this and I've only managed to find something similar for dogs but it isn't mobile phone based. If anyone knows of an existing product, please also post a reply...I want one for my remaining cat
Cheers
Wayne