CPC H04W 4/029 (2018.02) [H04W 4/80 (2018.02); H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04W 52/0235 (2013.01); H04W 88/16 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A radiotag wearable by a pet in need of location monitoring, comprising a housing with a processor, associated logic circuitry, a cellular modem, a Bluetooth modem, battery, and computer-executable instructions stored in a computer-readable memory that,
when executed by the processor, cause the radiotag to generate signals for:
(a) controlling the cellular modem to operate in a sleep mode or a wake mode and to default to the sleep mode;
(b) determining, that a Bluetooth radio signal quality of connection between the Bluetooth modem and a paired smartphone operated by the owner of the pet is less than a threshold level of quality, has become intermittent, or is undetectable and lost;
(c) transitioning the cellular modem from the sleep mode to the wake mode in response to a determination that the Bluetooth radio signal quality of connection has become undetectable or lost; and
(d) in response to a determination that the Bluetooth radio signal quality of connection has become undetectable or lost, causing the cellular modem to connect to a cellular network, to determine from the cellular network a current location of the radiotag, and to report the location to a second remote device; wherein a second remote device is a cloud host configured to administer radiotag locating, tracking and notifying services for a community of owners of radiotags worn by pets.
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