I will be doing solo horseback riding soon and my mom wants me to have something on my person during the rides so she can check on me and my location without me needing to answer a text or phone call. It’s purely a safety thing and exclusively for me when I’m riding alone. Outside of riding, the tech will be turned off and stored with my riding stuff.
What would y’all do in this kinda scenario? I value the opinions of the people here in regards to tech more than the search results I was getting when I looked it all up.
If you dont want to bring/use your phone for its gps-functionality, there are gps-trackers for pets that only require a sim-card. Battery lasts for at least several hours to several days depending on how often you query it for position.
The one I bought recently doesn’t have great precision (at least not near and around my building which may be blocking the signal), and only the position at the moment of asking, it doesn’t have like a live-feed of movement. So it’s not close to as good as the phones gps, but it will show at least the general area and whether you’re traveling or not. I went with the smallest I could find because my cat is small, but for a hosre you can get a bigger and probably much better version.
It does require network signal so you need a sim-card that works for the area you’ll be riding in.