Just signed up to the Things Network and am looking at a bird tracking project. Be interested as to where you have got to as I’ve just seen this thread!
What sort of weight do you envisage for the tracker ?
Do you need accurate locations for the bird, within 10m say, or will an indication that its maybe a few km from an indicarted gateway be OK ?
When you get started, can you tell me the average air speed of an unladen swallow?
30mph as a rough estimate.
African or European?
And how fast would it be with a GNSS + LoRa + battery attached?
I have seen information on how fast the swallow might be carrying a very small coconut.
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But not an African one, they don’t migrate!
Just an update on the GasCap Asset Tracker. I finally decided to have some of these made for sale at Tindie to replace the Cricket Asset Trackers since I am running low on the latter.
The GasCap Asset Tracker will be functionally equivelent to the Crickets (no battery charger though) but in the 16 x 62 mm form factor with integrated AA-battery (3.6 V 2400 mAH LiSOCl2) holder. .
Unlike the Cricket and Gnat, these are open source so you can download the Altium design from the OSHPark shared space here. Could be a good start for someone to customize for their own applications.
I’ll update again when these become available, probably in early January.