I don't know if you can hit that price point, but looking at trade pubs I see there is little on the market for the equestrian market.<p>I think there are several uncanny valleys that make the market hard to serve:<p>* many horse paddocks are only a modest multiple of the gps uncertainty for typical hardware
* you can't count on cell service in rural areas
* no unlicensed wireless technology has a range that is (consistently) a large multiple of the gps uncertainty, so if your horse is ranging in a large area you can't get the signal back
* anything you interact with while riding is a no-no because misattention will have you on your ass in no time
Do you mean a GPS tracker that can tell me where something is? Or do you just mean a GPS receiver that can tell me where I am? There's a huge difference.
Cars, bikes, pets, anything that gets stolen or runs away. The existing cheap tags are just beacons with short range. The apps overpromise using a network (other people with apps) to continuously look for reported tags. In not densely populated areas that's useless.
Wallet, keys, car, bike, skateboard, roller-blades etc.<p>This depends on how long does the battery last, and how easily the GPS information is retrievable (APIs, etc)<p>Also is this based on something like LoRa or SigFox ?
I just came off a project in St. Eustatius, where I met a team of marine biologists tracking sea turtles with some form of GPS device. They seemed to be spending a lot on the devices, which were modified for underwater conditions and algae growth and other problems. Still, $5/device is sounds like a price point that would attract many people in the scientific community.
Size matters a lot here. For $5, I'd put a tiny tracker on all my expensive belongings. If the tracker is bigger than, say, a US quarter, then the number of things I could put it on would be much smaller.
Depends how accurate you can get it. I work in a large manufacturing plant and am always losing clipboard/notepad and usually resort to walking around the whole plant to find it.