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A project log for Squeak: GPS pet tracker

Squeak is a LoRaWAN GPS pet tracker with a very long battery life. It allows you to ask your pets to share their location

mihaicuciucmihai.cuciuc 11/16/2022 at 06:460 Comments

Adding up the maximum currents for the components for each state I got:

On measurement things improve a little:

Using a 400mAh battery, keeping the GPS off and sending one uplink every 15 minutes should give ~130 days of battery life on 80% of the battery charge.

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