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Re:Show HN: Build live location sharing in your app with Hyp... by arjun27 on Saturday May 20, 2017 @12:53PM (#14383216)
<1% per hour. This is achieved by: 1. use consumption patterns to know when to transmit data (eg, if no one is actively tracking, no need to transmit data on radio) [1] 2. using accelerometer and gyroscope data to know when to collect data (eg, if you're not moving, no need to use GPS)

[1] We blogged about how we built out our variable frequency model: https://blog.hypertrack.com/2016/11/28/battery-efficient-rea...

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Re:Show HN: Build live location sharing in your app with Hyp... by nwjtkjn on Saturday May 20, 2017 @06:30PM (#14384709)
The blog post claims ~5% per hour.
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Re:Show HN: Build live location sharing in your app with Hyp... by arjun27 on Saturday May 20, 2017 @06:51PM (#14384783)
Ah, old post actually, dated Nov 2016. Just wanted to share it for the variable freq approach - sorry for the confusion! We released a major update of the SDK this March which brought in significant improvements due to sensor data.
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Re:Show HN: Build live location sharing in your app with Hyp... by rhizome on Saturday May 20, 2017 @02:09PM (#14383547)
Do you work for Hypertrack?
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Re:Show HN: Build live location sharing in your app with Hyp... by arjun27 on Saturday May 20, 2017 @02:14PM (#14383562)
Yes.
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