Photos: The Retrieva dog collar tracker
According to the Missing Pets Bureau, nearly 2,500 dogs were lost or stolen every week in 2007. The Retrieva collar will help combat this through its instant tracking and alert system linked directly to your mobile phone.
All you need to do is open the mapping application on your phone and request the collar’s location, which will then appear live on the map. What’s more if your phone is GPS enabled you will also be able to plot your location relative to that of your dog – making your beloved pooch that much easier to find.
The collar has an Orange SIM embedded inside it and uses three technologies; GPS, GSM and Radio Frequency to track the dog. The three technologies ensure an overlapping and reinforced system to monitor and track your dog. The collar takes advantage of the comprehensive Orange network, which provides high quality GSM coverage to 99 per cent of the UK population. The strength of the network means that dog owners can be confident that there will be sufficient mobile reception to trace their dogs.