[victoknight]

Why no GPS integration? Would it affect the battery life to poorly?

[joeblau]

I have a buddy that works at Garmin and from what I understand, GPS receivers are a huge battery drain and they are also pretty big/heavy in relation to other sensors. If you look at GPS running watches for instance, even the small ones are pretty beefy and they only last up to 8 hours while active.

[swamp40]

Well, the way it would work (and I'm sure how the TAGG does it) would be to leave the GPS and cellular modem powered down most of the time.

But say once every 30 minutes, they would all power up, grab the GPS data, fire off an SMS message with the coordinates, then power back down again.

It's not perfect, but it's a good compromise.

[efsavage]

This is a neat device, but GPS would seal the deal for me. I've looked at Tagg (http://www.pettracker.com/) which has it, but it isn't waterproof which a must for my Lab who loves to swim.