Thanks for both of your guys’ feedback.
Mic, I understand what you are saying about needing to find your keys at such long distances; it seems unnecessary. Our original idea was to use an RFID tag for short range tracking, but when we began researching RFIDs we found that very few of them can transmit at ranges greater than 2-3 feet, so this wouldn’t be a very great tracking device. The reason we moved on to GPS was that we wanted to try and see if we could sort of integrate a long and short range tracking system where we would use the GPS to track your keys up to a certain level or precision if maybe you dropped them at the park or something, and then once at shorter range send out a radio signal that would turn on a beeper on the keyfob so that you locate the object.
We don’t have a lot of experience with how GPS works or the individual components, so that’s why we came here to find out if this idea was possible or even worth pursuing, but after what fll-freak said about the necessary components, it doesn’t seem like a particularly user friendly system.
I am definitely interested learning more about the BLE technology you mentioned Mic. One of the ideas we considered was playing a sort of ‘hot and cold’ game with the object so proximity tracking would be a potential solution for us. I’m just curious, how would this system be different than RFIDs?
I appreciate all of your help
Thanks again