While the IFOP announce that 20% of French people use the location in 2010, Géotraceur launch Géonimo, a GPS collar to locate your dog at any time on your mobile phone ! The GPS collar Géonimo descends in France after 3 years of R&D. Using a combination of several technologies including especially GPS, the GSM/GPRS (mobile phone) and the Radio-frequency, Geotraceur® and Retrieva® developed the «  GPS collar the most advanced in the world, smarter than any telephony device« , dixit Gautier LICTEVOUT, CEO of Géotraceur. French society situated at Euratechnologies in Lille, Géotraceur dispense this GPS collar to locate and visualize the position of your dog in real time on your mobile phone or your computer logged to the internet, thanks to several functions :

Anti-flee alert if the dog gets away from its home and beyond an area defined by the owner, he is immediately warned by a text message on his cell phone. Anti Steal alert the GPS collar is secured. It has a lock  that can be open only by the owner with his key. If the lock is forced or if someone tries to cut the collar (even it is made up with a material hardly divisible), a text message of alert is automatically and immediately send on the cell phone of the owner. SOS Alert A button on the collar enable the owner himself to warn his relatives about any dangerous situation eventually encountered during a walk with his dog (erratic behavior, dizzy turn, attack…). When the button is pushed, a text message with the exact position in real time is send to a chosen phone number.

To learn more on Génonimo, the GPS collar for dogs, here is the official website CollierGPS.fr !