GlocalMe presents PetPhone as a collar-mounted “pet smartphone”: a 4G LTE wearable that combines tracking, health/activity signals, and real-time calling so you can speak to a dog or cat from the app. The underlying trick is CloudSIM (SIM-less roaming), letting the device attach to local networks worldwide without swapping a card. The demo also calls out a subscription model around $5/month for connectivity. https://www.glocalme.com/
PetPhone is framed as a practical IoT node: geofences and escape alerts, a live route view, and a “6-layer” positioning stack (GPS/AGPS, LBS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, plus active radar for close-range finding). Two-way voice is the core interaction, and the demo mentions trained “call triggers” (a triple-jump gesture) so a pet can initiate a session; the PetPhone C+ Suite is also described with a 1080p camera and multiple viewing angles. The plan is described as “unlimited” data, but battery is presented as about two hours of continuous video capture, or roughly a week when used mainly as a tracker and occasional check-in for care.
The PetPogo ecosystem adds PetCam, a lightweight wearable camera often framed around 25 g, designed for both pet-eye POV and a wider monitoring view. That turns “where is my pet” into short contextual clips you can review, save, and optionally share in an in-app community feed, so the system becomes part tracker, part behavior log. This interview was filmed at the Global Connect showcase during CES Las Vegas 2026, and it captures how pet tech is converging on telemetry plus bite-size media from their side of the collar, not just a static map pin, with pet-eye POV.
Zooming out, the pet line sits on top of GlocalMe’s travel-connectivity catalog: SIM-free portable hotspots with flexible passes (GB bundles, day, month, or annual), plus hardware that hides a modem inside everyday objects. The booth shows RoamPlug (a travel adapter with an embedded 4G hotspot) and UniCord (a USB-C fast-charge cable that can spin up Wi-Fi when plugged in), alongside 5G mobile Wi-Fi and even 5G + satellite/NTN concepts that can auto-switch links to keep you online as you roam.
If you’re evaluating PetPhone beyond the fun “call your dog” moment, focus on operational details: how accurate the multi-radio location is in dense areas, whether action recognition and wellness trend alerts stay meaningful across breeds, and how permissions work when multiple family members want access. The mechanical choices matter too—chew resistance, waterproofing, and avoiding a swallowable form factor—because pet wearables fail more from real life than RF specs. Put together, it’s a neat case study in how CloudSIM, sensors, and UX design meet in pet IoT here.
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