Pet Rescue Tracker With GPS and Danger Alerts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing pet tracking systems, such as microchips, are passive and do not facilitate real-time location tracking or alerting during emergencies, leading to delayed rescue and potential harm to pets and owners.
Innovation Solution
A trackable microchip device with integrated GPS, thermal sensors, audible and visual alerts, and a transceiver that activates in danger scenarios, allowing remote tracking and rescue via a smartphone app.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a passive microchip is used for pet identification, then the device is simple and inexpensive, but it cannot provide real-time tracking or alerting during emergencies
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functions (GPS tracking, thermal sensing, audible alerts, visual alerts, and communication) into a single integrated microchip device. This merging resolves the contradiction by providing reliable emergency tracking and alerting capabilities while keeping the device as a compact unit that can be implanted or attached to pets.
Solution Approach 2:
The microchip device performs multiple functions including location tracking, danger detection, audible signaling, visual signaling, and wireless communication. This multi-functionality allows a single device to provide comprehensive emergency response capabilities without requiring multiple separate devices, thereby improving reliability while managing complexity.
2Loss of time
If active tracking components are added to the microchip, then real-time location tracking is enabled, but the device size and power requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The GPS tracking system operates periodically rather than continuously, activating at intervals to update location data. This periodic operation significantly reduces power consumption and allows for smaller battery capacity, thereby enabling real-time tracking capability while minimizing the weight increase of the microchip device.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses a wireless communication module as an intermediary between the microchip and external tracking systems. This intermediary enables location data to be transmitted remotely without requiring the microchip to maintain constant power or have large onboard processing capabilities, thus reducing the device weight while enabling real-time tracking.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If thermal sensors and alert systems are integrated, then danger detection capability is improved, but the device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates thermal sensors, audible alerts, and visual alerts into a single unified danger detection and response system. By merging these components, the device achieves improved danger detection accuracy while managing complexity through integrated design rather than separate systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The microchip device autonomously detects dangers using thermal sensors and automatically activates audible and visual alerts without requiring external intervention. This self-service capability improves danger detection accuracy by providing immediate response to threats while the integration of these functions into a single device manages overall system complexity.
4Illumination intensity
If visual alert lights are added, then visibility of the pet during emergencies is improved, but the device complexity and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The visual alert lights operate periodically or on-demand rather than continuously, activating only when danger is detected or when the pet needs to be located. This periodic operation significantly reduces energy consumption, allowing the device to provide high-intensity illumination for improved pet visibility while managing battery power requirements.
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AI summary
A novel pet finder and rescue tracker device is disclosed. The device is a microchip that can be fastened to a collar by way of a tag or pendant, incorporated into the pet's collar itself, implanted under the animal's skin like a standard microchip, or secured to a smart watch if used with a person. The pet finder and rescue tracker device comprises a body component comprising a battery, a microchip, a location tracking component, an audible component, at least one light, and a transmitter/transceiver. Typically, when the microchip/body component senses danger, it will light up and start flashing and making noise to aid those in search of the animal. The schematic on the app will also light up in the location of where the animal is, in order to aid in its rescue.