Missing Mainers found safe!MisterMan-Maine t1_ja7wou6 wrote
Reply to comment by Adventurous_Gap_2092 in Missing Mainers found safe! by grc207
No, Airtags don't do shit in the wilderness where there is no signal at all as they rely on the infrastructure of iphones and service for the iphones of which is very scarce in parts of this state. Hell there's a crapton of deadzones where I live. My house is a deadzone that gets 0 bars of service. Real proper GPS trackers are needed.
Adventurous_Gap_2092 t1_ja7x45s wrote
Lincoln and Springfield have service. They aren't exactly wilderness, either. Could broadband be better? Yes. We Are working on it. As far as iPhone. You could use any reputable tagging device.
MisterMan-Maine t1_ja7yqg7 wrote
No, I don't think you understand what I'm saying. Where they went on their journey doesn't matter for the future. Our state is a vast wilderness, what happens if this shit happens again and these two ladies end up going up a logging road into the vast wilderness of North Western Maine? Such as for example GPS Coords 46.5936801, -69.2576653? There's nothing up there for infastructure period and any tag that requires service from a phone and/or cellular service would be useless and they'd remain lost. A proper GPS Tracker that does not use Cell Service would still be able to ping the location.
Adventurous_Gap_2092 t1_ja7ztgy wrote
We will have to agree to disagree. I'm holding the opinion that an airbag will be helpful. Maybe not in all places right now ( I have service in Unknown) but helpful in general. You can believe it's not helpful because they might travel somewhere without tower access. Ultimately it's up to the ladies family members.
MisterMan-Maine t1_ja84ohb wrote
An airbag is always helpful if you get into a crash I won't disagree with that.
Okay now besides the typo joke it's up to the ladies family definitely. But there is a vast area of our state without service. You cannot deny the possibility of if this happens again they end up going into a deadzone and get lost.
Adventurous_Gap_2092 t1_ja87e17 wrote
That's true. When I first moved to this town I had no service on my phone. My internet was essentially dial up. I had been with my carrier for over a decade. We had no towers to connect to. The company connected me to Canadian towers. Now, a decade later, we have our own towers and I have really fast fiber in the house. ( Not available everywhere in my town...yet) Service had improved greatly in the wilderness.
gretchens t1_ja820ng wrote
I am familiar with the gaps in service, but I do think for people who typically travel in Topsham/Southern Maine, an airtag/ Life360/ FInd My service would have found them *before* they ended up at Nicatous. Maybe even before they ended up in Lincoln!
lantech t1_ja8mr33 wrote
Airtags work via bluetooth. When other iphones see an airtag they log and report it. That's how airtags get tracked, they don't talk to cell towers. If you're in the woods with an airtag, and your phone is dead, there's no other phones around to track your airtag.
They were tracking them via cell tower pings but springfield was the last ping then it stopped.
A full-blown GPS tracking device could have reported exact locations and direction of travel before losing connectivity.
Adventurous_Gap_2092 t1_ja8nu7t wrote
Cool. Thank you. I did not know. What about the other tracking devices. The knock off air tags on Amazon. Do they connect to androids or ??
MisterMan-Maine t1_ja8q8g3 wrote
Those just work off Bluetooth and don't connect to any infrastructure. They pair to a single device and then that's it.
lantech t1_ja8ry2a wrote
I gave some to my mom so she could find her ferrets when they fall asleep in a random place in the house.
lantech t1_ja8sbef wrote
They do, but only the phone they pair with. So you can find your keys in your house.
Apple takes advantage of their "ecosystem" and uses all the iphones in the world to create a network of sorts.
MisterMan-Maine t1_ja8qejo wrote
That is what I was saying in my reply to them originally. But I don't think they understood it.
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