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Invoxia unveiled the Minitailz pet tracker at the largest Computer Electronics Show (CES) in the USA, meeting in Las Vegas, Jan 9-12, 2024, since 1995. The Minitailz pet tracker not only informs you of your pet’s whereabouts, using Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, the Minitailz is also a biometrics pet tracker that supplies information 24/7 about your pet’s health. Health information such as respiratory and heart rates, movement, sleep and barking. Indeed, it is the first combination GPS-Health tracker for dogs, and soon for cats also.
The Minitailz tracker is sold together with a collar, or separately for easy attachment to an existing collar. The Minitailz tracker comes with a monthly (8$) subscription-based app for monitoring and interpreting all the collected data.
The Minitailz pet tracker is a patented invention recited in the US utility patent application, US20230210091A1, titled Dog collar. The patent recites a non-invasive, intelligent collar with a neural network (NN), trained to continuously monitor the physiological parameters of a dog, such as heart rate (HR) and breathing rate (BR) and to separate the BR and HR signals. The collar further comprises a movement sensor comprising an accelerometer and/or gyrometer to capture movement data, and a storage unit comprising the trained neural network. A memory is configured to store physiological information. The tracker also has an interface to communicate all the collected physiological information, to a remote device.
Below the patent Figures 1 and 2 of the dog collar (1). Figure 1 shows a band (2) fitted around the dog’s neck and a set of electronic parts (3) adapted to the band (2), for monitoring the physiological parameters of a dog. The patent Figure 2 represents a detailed view of the Figure 1 set of electronic parts (3).
The electronic parts (3) comprise a processing unit (5) and memory (6). The electronic parts further comprise a radar (7) unit with a sensor, comprising a receiving antenna, adapted to detect a signal on the dog’s skin (8), preferably above the dog’s throat, in particular above the dog’s jugular and/ or carotid veins (9). The raw radio frequency (RF) signal (10) detected by the radar is measured by a single antenna. In other embodiments, three antennas might capture the RF signal, resulting in a three-dimensional signal. The dog collar also comprises a ballast (11) with a power source (4) for positioning the radar unit on the jugular vein.
The electronic parts also comprise a movement sensor unit (12), comprising an accelerometer and/or a gyrometer. The movement sensor (12) is designed to capture the raw movement signal (13) of the dog’s collar (1). The dog collar also comprises a clock (14), designed to synchronize segments of raw movement signals with raw radiofrequency (RF) signals. The neural network unit (16), comprising artificial intelligence software, is stored in its own storage unit (15). The dog collar also comprises an input/output unit (17), for short-range radio communication, designed to transfer stored physiological data to a remote device via BlueTooth®.
The abstract of the invention is included below.
An intelligent dog collar for monitoring physiological parameters of a dog, comprising:
- a movement sensor unit comprising an accelerometer and/or a gyrometer, wherein the movement sensor unit is configured to detect raw movement signals of the dog collar,
- a storage module storing a trained neural network, the neural network being configured to determine a physiologic information into raw movement signals detected by the movement sensor unit,
- a processing unit connected to the movement sensor unit and configured to operate the trained neural network,
- a memory configured to store the identified physiologic information,
- an interface for transmitting to a communication device the identified physiologic information. [Abstract US20230210091A1]
References
CES 2024
Invoxia
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