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SmartShepherd App

4. Collecting the collars

Collecting the collars off the animals 48 hours after assigning them Mar 31, 2020

You should have assigned the collars before trying to collect them - they must be on the animals for 48 hours to collect enough data to determine the maternal pedigree

Assigning collars

When collecting the collars off the animals, the procedure is fairly simple.  Simply take the collars off and place them in an appropriate bin or bucket.

While you are taking the collars off, the app should be set to "TURN DEVICES OFF", this will automatically connect to each collar and switch them off for reading later.

From this screen, go to "TURN DEVICES OFF"

Press the "AUTO SLEEP OFF" button at the top of the screen, it will say "AUTO SLEEP ON" and start finding and turning off the pods.  Note that if you have a lot of pods it can take 30-60 minutes or more to find and switch them off.  Best practice is to start the screen switching collars off while the animals are coming through your race / collection point.  You will hear the switch-off tune from each pod as it switches off.

When you can't hear pods being switched off, they can be read

Reading the collars

 

Created: 3/31/2020 1:32:29 AM, Last modified: 3/31/2020 1:43:00 AM