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dx.doi/10.14257/ijsh.2016.10.3.21 Smart Pet Care System using Internet of Things
Seungcheon Kim1
1Dept. of IT Applied Engineering, Hansung University, South Korea
kimsc@hansung.ac.kr
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Abstract
Since Internet of Things(IoT) have come to our lives, we have developed various smart rvices using IoT. This paper introduces a smart pet care system that is working in an environment of Internet of Things (IoT). Basic rvices of the propod smart pet care system are: Remote feeding, remote controlled automatic defecation, CCTV rvice and Smart phone APP that can provide the control information of the above rvices. Basic architecture and system implementations are introduced with the details of rvices.
Keywords: Internet of Things (IoT), smart rvices, architecture, system implementation
1. Introduction
21st century has brought us new technologies bad on wireless communications. Tho technologies have started to change our lives in every aspect. The biggest change was initiated by the invention of smart phone. Since then, we could have more smart gadgets with various features. Tho are acting by communicating with smart phones since most people nowadays carry smart phones with them. Smart phone now starts to catalyze the new technology: Internet of Things (IoT). Actually IoT means not only one technology but all the technologies ud to make a wireless rvice dealing with the information collected from lots of nsors. Therefore we can refer IoT as a new concept of Internet in 21st century [1-2].
Not only the nsors are required to make the IoT rvices more attractive to people but the way to process the data collected from nsors are getting important. Therefore, the questions about how we could collect the information from nsors and process the information forced us to think about new architecture of networks and data processing: cloud computing and big data [3].
With the concepts and technologies mentioned earlier in our mind, we have started to think about the new rvices that could be implemented easily around our real lives. Nowadays we could meet l
ots of people living with their pets. And the number of single houhold are growing as the change of life style. And most of single houhold need a way to deal with their pets while they are away from their home. Even though the personal pet care rvices are found around us, they require more money and time of trust. Here, we could e the opportunity that IoT rvices can provide for personal convenience.
The pet care market is also related to the smart technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) and smart phones, which can provide the convenient rvices with various aspects for pet owners. However, the current pet care products are restricted in the simple functioning products such as the automatic feeder with timer and monitoring camera. In order to provide the smart pet care rvices for pets and pet owners, we need to think about how to check the status of pets with owner’s smart phone and provide the proper rvices for pets such as replacement of defecation pad and feeding bowl recharging. From the perspective of owners, the statistics of feeding and replacement of defecation pad are also one of concerns.
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In this paper, we have propod a new pet care system that can feed the pets while the owners are abnt at their homes and can monitor their movement and status and also control its defecation pad through owner’s smart phones. The propod system is distinctive from others in terms of that the propod system is bad on IoT technologies, which us lots of nsor and wireless communications. Therefore, the propod system is not restricted in the space and time only if the wireless communications are provided.
2. The Architecture of Smart Pet Care System
The propod smart pet care system is depicted in Figure 1. As you can e in the figure, the major parts of the smart pet care system is compod of 5 components.
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Figure 1. Architecture of Smart Pet Care System As you can e in the figure, each component has its own platform with various nsors embedded in the platforms. We have chon the platform for each device as Arduino MCU since it is cheap and easy to u. Tho devices are designed to be linked in a home network bad on WiFi WLAN. The connecting technologies, however, are not limited to WiFi. We could possibly u other technologies like Buetooth low energy(BLE) and LTE mobile communication technology. Mostly the smart phone can be ud to monitor the status of sma
rt pet care system and control the smart pet care system by changing the action process of each device in whole system. The smart phone can be ud through 3G/4G mobile network and directly in WLAN.
3. Devices in Smart Pet Care System
1. Automatic Feeder
The basic functions of automatic feeder is mostly the same with the product that we can find in the market. The difference laid in the communication ability and nsing ability. We have designed the automatic feeder with the weight nsor and timer. It can measure the amount of the food and check the time interval. And it can act on time basis with timer t. Urs can t the regular interval of feeding time for their pets. In addition, urs can t the amount of food bad on the weight of the amount of onetime food. Every control for tting could be done through ur’s smart phones. The automatic feeder has been implemented with Arduino MCU. The basic process of jobs in automatic Feeder(Arduion)WiFi router
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Web Cam(Raspberry Pi)Local WiFi Network Apps for smart phones Defecation(Arduion)
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feeder is described in Figure 2. Urs can e the status of the automatic feeder through the specific smart phone APP that we have developed.
Figure 2. Processing Flow of Automatic Feeder
2. Automatic Pooping Pad
榜样教育Recently most of pets are trained to poop in the dedicated area at home. However, while the pet owners are away from their home for a while, the rested area for their pets are hard to be cleaned and get masd easily. For the convenience of the pet owners, automatic pooping pad has been devid bad on IoT technology.
The propod automatic pooping pad can detect pet’s defecation with a help of nsors: temperature nsor, humidity nsor and ultrasonic nsor. Ultrasonic nsor is mostly ud to detect the prence of pets on the defecation pad. After the pet defecated, the ultrasonic nsor detects the prence of the pet. When the pet left the pooping pad, the pooping pad is rolled and replaced automatically. The poops are collected in the pooping ca by the rolling pad.
The automatic pooping pad can be connected to smart phone. It can be controlled and monitored via smart phone. A databa has been built to e the temperature and humidity in real time. Figure 3 shows the operational process of automatic pooping pad.
Figure 3. Processing Flow of Automatic Pooping Pad
3. Camera with Raspberry Pi
A camera system is added in the smart pet care system. The propod camera system is specially implemented with Raspberry Pi rver. The distinctive feature of the camera system is that it is focud on the pet. Its major interest is to monitor the movement of pet. Pet owners can monitor the pet ’s status through the camera and also look at the status of Server
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other devices like feeder and pooping pad. Therefore, pet owners can e the whole life of pet through the camera system in addition to the information that would be provided through APPs. Figure 4 shows the processing flow in the camera system.
Figure 4. Processing Flow of Camera System
4. Mobile Web and APP for smart phone
The history of feeding or replacement of pooping pad is recorded in the home rver and can be displayed through mobile web and APP for smart phone. For the jobs, APPs for smart phone are devid. And the home rver is equipped with the functionality of web rvice.
Urs can log in with ID and password, which is shown in Figure 5. Only the administrator can change the IP tting of feeder, pooping pad and camera. Ur can t the alarm tting for feeding and can monitor the status of pooping pad as shown in Figure 6.
Figure 5. Login and Administration in Smart Pet Care APP
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Figure 6. Controlling and Monitoring through Smart Pet Care APP 4. Implementations
The whole operation is through the home rver, which collects every information regarding pet with the nsor implemented in Smart Pet Care System. The operational flow is shown in Figure 7.
The mentioned devices so far have been implemented as shown in Figure 8. As shown in the figure, the ca of automatic feeder was implemented with 3-D printer. Inside of the automatic feeder is divided to 3 layers to contain and distribute the food easily. The pooping pad was hard to be implemented with 3-D printer. Therefore, we ud a form board to make the exterior ca of the pooping pad. Inside of the pooping pad, the step motor was ud to roll the defecation pad and collect the pet ’s poop into the ca.
Figure 5. The Operation of Smart Pet Care System
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