dog collar igam4er finalist 2013
DESCRIPTION
The Dog Collar project is a citizen science project encouraging pet owners to understand better their animal while contributing to research. This is an open hardware collar containing motion sensors (3d gyroscope and accelerometers) to measure the activity of a dogs. An onboard memory and battery will allow data to be stored for days. A bluetooth module allow synchronisation with moibile devices and computers. Dog owners will be able to know if their dog exercice enought and what he is doing along the day. As it is an open source projet dog owners are always owners of their data and can choose to share or not anonymized data with researchers. Those data are very usefull for research on aging as dog age in 20 in the same way as humans in 80 years. Moreover dog have a quite know genotype and so researchers will be able to correlate genotype phenotype and environemental factors on a large scale. There is also an educational project aiming at childrens : the idea is to bring the children to be more curious about nature around. They learn new things about animals by observing their dog.TRANSCRIPT
Understanding better your pet, contribute to research .
15th December 2013 Kevin Lhoste
Open hardware Device
• Arduinocomptible MCU (Atmega32u4) • Advanced 6-axis motion sensor (accelerometer, gyroscope)
• Bluetooth LowEnergy (BT4.0)
• Estimatedretaiprice~50$
Open collar > Dog collar
100 % open source* Github.com/kevinlhoste/ Small size and weigth (3.3 cm x 1.7 cm, < 20 g) 100% customizable
With open collar everybody can understanding better animals !
Pet owners Researchers
Kids
Pet Activity and health monitoring
Research on ageing on pets
Lipsitz et al. JAMA. 1992 Apr 1;267(13):1806-‐9.
Learning by questioning for kids : Real data based research quest
Sleep Alimenta@on
Cogni@on Physical condi@ons
What do you want to learn
today ?
=> Choice of subject and type of ac@vity
Tutorial with known data =>
Same process as crowdcrafting (citizen science) for adults
Evalua@on => Gathering and analysis of real data
=> Feedback /
Communica@on of results =>
Opening on new interest (future ac@vi@es etc..)
Going further ? MOOC
Project noah =>
Data based research Quest
Lets work on the sleep of dogs !
Sleep Alimenta@on
Cogni@on Physical condi@ons
Look at this curve , it is an acurve represen@ng ac@vity of a dog during a day. The blue
part is the sleep
Now it is your turn select the part of this curve corresponding to
sleep
Very good ! Now lets work on real data from your dog !
In this dataset can you find how many hours did your dog slept
yesterday ?
What about the other animals ?
Which one of these animals do you sleep
the more ?
Career Mode
Veterinary Engineer Biologist Physicist
Next Steps
- Implement Bluetooth 4.0
- Implement energy optimization
- New design (smaller & more resistant)
- Continue experimentation with veterinary doctors
- Other sensors useful ? (heart rate etc..)
Acknowledgments
AXA – chair for research on ageing