Life360 ventures into pet tech with the launch of a new GPS tracker

The household information app Life360 is venturing into favored tech with the motorboat of its caller tracking device, the Pet GPS. Designed to connect to a collar oregon harness, this caller instrumentality aims to connection favored owners bid of caput by delivering real-time determination updates for their dogs and cats.

The motorboat of the Pet GPS feels similar a earthy improvement for Life360, peculiarly pursuing its acquisition of the tracking instrumentality institution Tile successful 2021. Since then, the institution has integrated Tile’s item-finding capabilities into its app, including the quality to delegate a Tile tracker to their pet.

Retailing astatine $49.99, Life360’s Pet GPS stands arsenic the priciest offering successful its lineup. However, it comes with a scope of features that favored owners whitethorn find worthwhile.

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Key features see geofencing (virtual bound alerts), flight alerts, and entree to a Pet Finder Network. Pet owners tin acceptable up harmless zones, and if a favored runs off, an flight alert volition beryllium triggered.

Users tin besides alert the adjacent assemblage astir a mislaid pet. When issuing a mislaid favored alert, the app shares important accusation with adjacent members, specified arsenic the pet’s name, image, breed, and exigency interaction details.

Life360 says its web comprises implicit 88 cardinal members, providing users with a important assemblage to assistance find their missing pet.

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The favored tracker combines cellular, GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth to supply the astir close location, updating each 2 to 4 seconds erstwhile the favored is distant from home. 

Other adjuvant features see a built-in light, which tin beryllium activated done the app to assistance find a favored successful the dark. The instrumentality besides features a chime sound function, allowing owners to telephone their pets erstwhile needed — arsenic erstwhile they are taking excessively agelong to relieve themselves successful the gait oregon they’re hiding nether the couch. 

With an IP68 rating, Life360 says the instrumentality is water-resistant, dustproof, and resistant to favored bites. 

The instrumentality includes a charger with a artillery beingness lasting up to 14 days. There’s besides a “Bluetooth Reserve Mode,” which extends artillery beingness to support a favored locatable for up to six months. 

Life360’s Pet GPS comes successful 3 colors: pink, navy, and black. It’s disposable for acquisition successful the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand astatine Life360.com. To entree each features, users request a Gold ($14.99/month) oregon Platinum ($24.99/month) subscription.