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GEODOG® – Basic Principle
How does GEODOG® work?
Basically, GEODOG® is a high-performance „mobile phone“ for your dog.
Like every mobile phone GEODOG® requires a SIM-card of a mobile phone provi-
der with a telephone number
(see page 5 for further information on the use
of SIM-cards)
.
In order to communicate with GEODOG® you will need your own mobile phone.
You send commands by calling GEODOG® or sending a SMS-message to the
telephone number of GEODOG®. GEODOG® will execute the command and return
his answer as an SMS-message to your mobile phone.
With GEODOG® you are able to:
Actively locate and search your dog
You can explicity (actively) enquire the current position of your dog by calling
GEODOG®, or you can follow your dog‘s track by sending the SMS-command
searchon.
Your request will be answered by a SMS containing the coordinates of the positi-
on, which you can either look up in a map (printout or Internet) and relate to the
whereabouts of your dog, or which you can enter as destination address into a
navigation device.
As an alternative, web-enabled mobile phones offer the possibility to upload a
map for the current position of your dog to your mobile.
Passively oversee your dog
However, you can also watch your dog without any effort on your part (passi-
vely). For this, GEODOG® allows defining so-called „zones“, and you will be infor-
med by SMS when your dog enters or leaves such a preset zone.
GEODOG® only answers to the telephone number which has been registered in
the device. Only you „communicate“ with your dog. Calls or SMS-commands from
other telephone numbers will be ignored by GEODOG®.