Overview

Limits

Specifications
Straight answers

It tracks boats. That is all it claims.

Hodalo shows where your boats are. It is not a distress beacon or a lifesaving device, and it does not replace lifejackets, supervision or your own procedures.9

It does.

  • Show every boat on one screen.

    Each boat is a dot on the Hodalo desk, with the age of its position beside it.

  • Record a position every minute.1

    On every trip, or every 2 minutes at lower charge.

  • Report by satellite or mobile.2, 4

    Whichever link the tag has at the time, with nothing to install on shore.

  • Tell staff what needs a look.

    A boat that is overdue, outside your boundary, or has stopped reporting.

  • Keep a record of each day.

    Which boats went out, which came back, and what was flagged.

It does not.

  • Send from under water.

    A capsize shows as lost contact afterwards, not as an alert at the time.9

  • Give the person on the boat anything to use.

    No button, and no screen, light or sound is specified.

  • Work without open sky.

    People, sails or boats stacked on a tag can delay or stop a report.

  • Update where there is no mobile signal.

    Software updates arrive over the mobile link only.

  • Have a battery you can replace.

    The tag is welded shut at the factory.

Still to prove.

Hodalo is in development. Here is what we have not yet shown.1

  1. Satellite

    No tag has sent over the satellite service yet.

    The service is new, and a first message from a tag is still ahead of us.2

  2. Durability and battery

    The figures are targets and estimates.

    They stay that way until a built tag has been tested.7

  3. Coverage

    Your site needs confirming.

    Satellite and mobile coverage where you are should be checked before you rely on it.2, 4

Talk to us about your site

Talk to us

Know where every boat is.

If you run a resort, a camp or a rental dock, tell us about your site and your fleet, and we will tell you plainly whether Hodalo fits.

Talk to us

A short call, no slides. Or write to hello@hodalo.com.

The orange Hodalo tag in its light-grey cradle, seen from above at a three-quarter angle, with the cradle wall around its side.

Where we are

This is a plan, not a promise.

  1. Now Design on paper. No tag has been tested yet.
  2. Next Satellite link test from a real tag.
  3. Then Pilot season with a small number of sites, 10 tags per site.
  4. 2028 First paid deployments (target).