Bluetooth Trackers Can Be Useful But They Cannot Replace GPS Trackers
Bluetooth trackers appeared a few years ago, after Bluetooth technology incorporated low energy mode, allowing a simple Bluetooth-enabled device to work for a long time while being equipped with a small battery. With Bluetooth low energy mode, a standard Bluetooth tracker can work for about a year before its battery dies. This means that you can pick up a cheap Bluetooth tracker and use it for more than a year before needing a replacement.
Since Bluetooth-enabled trackers are very affordable, and they promise that, with them, you’ll never lose your stuff again, they have become quite popular. But the fact is they just can’t replace standard GPS trackers, especially if you want to secure valuable items like your travel bag or an expensive DSLR camera - or even loved ones. Now, why they are inferior to GPS trackers, and what can they do exactly?
Read more of the story here, https://turtler.io/news/bluetooth-trackers-cannot-replace-gps-trackers
BLE (Bluetooth) trackers have been great for "I lost it in my house" or "I can't remember where I saw it last" ... The ones with a distance warning are excellent when taking the family to the theme park, or setting off an audible "alarm" to locate that parked stroller when some (helpful?) person moved it for you.
Although, I have to agree that GPS is better for your kids that walk to school alone or your valuable items. Ideally one that can be reasonably "hidden" on the person/property to be tracked so that thieves/kidnappers are unlikely to detect it.
The concept of "Crowdsource GPS" with BLE devices has interesting potential for finding things in areas with a lot of subscribers, however to be truly effective the "crowd" would either all have to use the same device or the source code would have to be in some way universal.
Combining block-chain dapp with BLE in populated areas could be an excellent stop-gap to the "economical" short range positioning of things and people lost.
now with the bluetooth version 5 Long Range, MyTrackNet will try to connect every device in a single network and give incentives to people without a tracker to jump in! take a look at this https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@mytracknet/mytracknet-the-ultimate-finder-of-all-physical-things-that-matter-to-you-the-most
That sounds interesting. What's the battery life on BLR?
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Great article
Interesting
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