Tether

Inspiration

I am often an absent-minded and forgetful person. It's common for me to misplace my belongings more than twice a day and it honestly slows me down and lowers my overall mood, then the iPhone 14 came. There honestly wasn't that much about the phone that caught my attention, but its release brought about a feature that was so simple and yet had the potential for huge implementations. This new iPhone had the ability to track down its ear pods and at first this might not seem like much, until you sit and think about how much easier life would be if you could track down any and all your possessions. It was this thought process that brought about Tether.

What it does

Tether is a network of devices that communicate and share information amongst themselves much like IoT( Internet of Things), but a lot more inclusive. Tether has the ability to track and trace any device from any point, making it impossible to misplace anything. It does this by using multiple API's and online services for its online tracking to make for a quick and reliable search, but it is also able to trace a dead device which is also offline through 'Triangulation'. The feature basically allows the tracking device to use its hardware information such as its Bluetooth address, IP address and more to trace down the missing device through first identifying it and relaying its information to other devices its closest to, to then calculate and estimate it's location.