Reindeer herding practices in Swedish Lapland take place in vast remote areas and require environmental consideration as well as coordination among reindeer herders. Efficient planning of reindeer husbandry practices are thus crucial for sustainable operations. In the last decade, reindeer herders have started to adopt various GPS solutions to track and monitor the location of parts of their herds. This is to reduce the costs of herding and husbandry activities. Saying this, as most of the affordable tracking solutions today require access to mobile network infrastructures, tracking cannot be used on huge parts of the grazing areas as they lack connectivity. Alternative tracking solutions that are based on its own radio infrastructures or satellite connectivity have turned out to be costly, mainly due to high maintenance costs and high satellite fees. Since 2010 Swedish Sami villages have access to the national reindeer husbandry planning database. While this service is used for seasonal planning of reindeer herding, it is currently not used by individual reindeer herders in their daily work. The software is developed for personal computers only and the task of importing herd tracing data is time consuming and besides, difficult to share with others. The main objective of this project is to develop a reindeer husbandry planning tool that will provide reindeer herders with:

•       access to the national reindeer husbandry planning database on the field even in remote areas that lacks Internet connectivity,

•       seamlessly integration of new and existing herd tracking solutions for real-time monitoring,

•       the possibility to record and share on-field relevant information from the grazing areas with other reindeer herders and organizations