Just like Martha, I need to know if my little Rascal has wander outside of his home boundary. I need a little collar that I could place on him that would signal my base unit whenever he leaves his confinement zone. No zapping, just beeping.-- dogzapper, Sep 10 2005 Where's Waldo? http://www.gundogsu...acking-collars.html [2 fries shy of a happy meal, Sep 10 2005] Normal buried wire solution. http://www.activek9...-radio-fencing.html [jutta, Sep 10 2005] GPS collar http://www.globalpetfinder.com/Pop-Sci had $1800 worth of high tech doggie stuff last month. [Zimmy, Sep 13 2005] Hot-Spot Pet Tracker by [1st2know] Hot-Spot_20Pet_20TrackerRedundant? [krelnik, Sep 13 2005] Geofencing.-- bristolz, Sep 10 2005 Geofencing is too expensive for this application. I need something cheap with short range. GPS technology is far too complex to be used for this idea.-- dogzapper, Sep 10 2005 There should be something in this [link] you could jury rig.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Sep 10 2005 Agreed and likely not accurate enough but the term can probably still be used to describe a range of technologies that map-bind a geographic area without the use of a physical perimeter.
Anything where the boundaries can be changed through software rather than by physically moving a perimeter definition can probably be called geofencing.-- bristolz, Sep 10 2005 A simpler method might be that the absence of a signal from the collar would initiate a warning from the base unit. This idea is still mushy in the middle.-- dogzapper, Sep 10 2005 Depending on signal attenuation is very mushy.-- bristolz, Sep 10 2005 Reminder: This idea does not beep to Martha; it beeps to her captor so he can go after her when she gets too far away.-- dogzapper, Sep 10 2005 Yes, that's clear.-- bristolz, Sep 11 2005 does it come with prison knit poncho?-- benfrost, Sep 11 2005 If your cordless phone knows that it's out of range & can tell you that it is, I bet that a similar technology could be used to make a collar like this.
They have a GPS collar for $350 +$18/mo.-- Zimmy, Sep 13 2005 I think I'm missing the point of this. So the base unit beeps when your dog is gone. Does that somehow help you find your dog and/or keep your dog from running away? How about a collar that beeps, or says in a stern voice, "Go home, Fido. Bad dog."-- Worldgineer, Sep 13 2005 //No zapping, just beeping// buggrit-- Susan, Sep 13 2005 [Worldg...] I let my little Martha out to pee [and/or #2] every once in a while. If she wanders off, this here contraption thing will start beeping. It lets me know I have to go get her. She stays in the house most of the time. Usually, all I have to do is call her and she comes back home. No stern voice required.-- dogzapper, Sep 15 2005 or just chumming around in the water.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Sep 15 2005 Does it zap the owner?-- pashute, Sep 19 2010 random, halfbakery