Geofencing technology implementation for pet tracker using Arduino based on Android

Abstract

The risk of losing pets, especially pets without a leash, usually occurs because animals get lost or stolen by irresponsible people. Owners can look for themselves to the nearest environment, ask people around, to make announcement posters at strategic places. Searching in this way takes a lot of time and effort and the pets you are looking for are not necessarily found immediately. So we need an application and an animal tracking device in order to find out the location of the animal’s whereabouts, one of which is by using a tracking device that utilizes the Global Positioning System (GPS). This study aims to implement geofencing technology for pet tracking using Android-based Arduino. The application development stage includes analysis, system design, implementation, and testing. This program is implemented using U-Blox Neo 6M to track location with GPS network, SIM800L is used to send coordinate point data to trackers using GPRS network, and Arduino pro mini to manage input and output processes from the system. The test results show the tools and applications can run well. The android based pet tracker that is made can receive notification when a pet goes out of a predefined geofence limit.