The Study and Application of the IoT in Pet Systems

Chung-Ming Own, Haw-Yun Shin, Chen-Ya Teng

Department of Computer and Communication Engineering, St. John’s University, New Taipei City, Chinese Taipei.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung City, Chinese Taipei.
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tamkang University, New Taipei City, Chinese Taipei.

DOI: 10.4236/ait.2013.31001                

Abstract

The interaction between human and physical devices and devices in the real world is gaining more attention, and requires a natural and intuitive methodology to employ. According to this idea and living well, life has been a growing demand. Thus, how to raise pets in an easy way has been the main issue recently. This study examines the ability of computation, communication, and control technologies to improve human interaction with pets by the technology of the Internet of Things. This work addresses the improvement through the pet application of the ability of location-awareness, and to help the pet owners raise their pet on the activity and eating control easily. Extensive experiment results demonstrate that our proposed system performs significantly help on the kidney disease and reduce the symptoms. Our study not only presents the key improvement of the pet monitor system involved in the ideas of the Internet of Things, but also meets the demands of pet owners, who are out for works without any trouble.

Keywords

Internet of Things; Wireless Sensor Network; Pet System

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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