[slewis]

Shawn from Beep here. It's definitely an interesting area for us. We've created a tracker demo but don't have any information on our site about it yet.

I love the idea of inductively charging the dog tracker when the dog is in bed (though we're unlikely to pull that off anytime soon given the state of wireless charging).

You can do a lot with battery life if you only turn the GPS radio on when the user wants to locate the item. This type of product requires really good network coverage. We could make one last for 4-5 months on a single AAA battery.

If you want it to check in every 10 minutes with GPS data it would only last for 3.5 days. If you get smart with an accelerometer you can push that out to 1-4 weeks or more depending on how much the thing you're tracking moves around.

It's a fun product area with lots of parameters to tweak!