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