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 The Impact of IoT concept on Smart Petcare Applications

WLSV Liyanage1, N Wedasinghe2, WAAM Wanniarachch3

1,2,3
Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Computing,
General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Ratmalana, Sri Lanka.
1 <sayurivliyanage@gmail.com>

Abstract— Pets require extra care and special attention. important. Therefore, the concerns about how we should
This job is not as easy as it used to be, owing to today's capture sensor data and process the data compelled us to
busy lifestyle. The interaction between human and physical learn about the latest network and data processing
machines and machinery in the real world is drawing architecture: cloud computing and big data. With the ideas
further attention, with the use of a normal and logical and innovations discussed earlier in our heads, we have
approach. According to this concept, life, and living well, begun to dream of new services that could be quickly
has become a rising demand. Thus, how to raise pets in an incorporated in our real lives. We're now going to reach a
easy way has been the main challenge lately. The question lot of people living with their dogs. And as lifestyle shifts,
that led to this research was "How does the IoT concept the number of single households is rising. And most single
impact smart Petcare applications?" The purpose of this households, when they are away from home, require a way
research paper was to examine the IoT concept to deal with their dogs. While we find personal pet care
characteristics and innovations of the latest smart Petcare facilities surrounding us, they take more resources and time
applications. Implementing smart pet homes would ensure for faith. Here we can see the potential for personal comfort
greater comfort and peace of mind for pet owners, that IoT services can offer. We need to think about how to
especially when pets are unattended. Before implementing verify pet status with the owner's mobile and how to
this smart pet home concept, one should study the existing provide proper pet facilities in order to take care of pets and
features and facilities. This Research explores the impact pet owners smartly.
of the IoT concept on smart Petcare applications potential
of the machine, connectivity, and control systems across the
Internet of Things technology to facilitate human contact II. LITERATURE REVIEW
with pets.
Through the use of the pet implementation of the ability
Keywords— Petcare, Internet of Things, Smart Petcare of location-awareness and to help pet owners easily teach
their pets about behavior and feeding management, several
system, Monitoring Systems
works have discussed the enhancement. The analysis not
only displayed the great progress of the pet monitor device
I. INTRODUCTION interested in the Internet of Things ideas but also satisfied
Keeping domesticated pets has been practised around the the criteria of pet owners who were seeking for jobs without
world and taking good care of them is already part of our any issues. That goal was to enable pet owners to automate
humane culture. Keeping pets is a practice around the world simple things like monitoring and feed controls. Finally,
and taking good care of them is already part of our human they suggested that a SOAP-based web service mechanism
culture. is an ideal choice for managing a variety of devices and
The 21st century has brought us new wireless-based devices in a home environment. Different sensors are used
innovations. In every way, such innovations have begun to to monitor different activities of the pet, for example, an IR
transform our lives. The mobile phone innovation initiated sensor to check if there is food available on the plate or not.
the greatest change. We've been able to get more intelligent An RFID tag used in the pet collar allows the pet to
devices with diverse features since then. Since most people communicate its identity. Arduino acts as a gateway to send
nowadays bring mobile phones with them, they behave by the collected information to the cloud storage, where the
engaging with smartphones. The new technology is now data can be retrieved and accessed using a mobile number
being catalysed by mobile phones: The Internet of Things or other electronic gadgets. The whole network was
(IoT). wireless and hence loss of couldn’t be achieved. Finally,
IoT means not only one technology but all the systems the research suggested adding RTC to the feeder.
that are used to create a wireless infrastructure that (Subaashri, Sowndarya and Sowmiyalaxmi, 2017)
manages the data obtained from a lot of sensors. Therefore,
in the 21st century, we should refer to IoT as a modern This research has suggested a new pet care system. The
Internet notion. In order to make the IoT services more basic services of the proposed smart pet care system were
appealing to users, not only are the sensors needed, but the remote feeding, remote automatic defecation, CCTV
way to process the data collected from sensors is becoming service, and a smartphone app that can provide the control
information of the above services. The system can feed the are out without a hitch for work. The proposed framework,
pets while the owners are away from home and can track including the smart pet door and pet food dish, is also based
their movements and status and control its defecation pad on smart home technologies. As a next move, they will
through the owner’s smartphones. The proposed system attempt to bring into their setup the other pet grooming
stands out from others in terms of IoT technologies, which tools, including litter boxes, pet monitor, etc. This will
use a lot of sensors and wireless communication. Therefore, satisfy the owners' varied desires as well as concerns of
the proposed system is not limited in space and time, only wellness, surveillance and entertainment. Anything for
if the wireless communication is provided. (Kim, 2016) dogs is protected. (Own, Shin and Teng, 2013a)

The cat is a clean animal free of najis, but it takes time The VetCompass Australia service gathers clinical
and patience to keep a cat at home. So, this study developed evidence from veterinary practices in real-time and collects
a monitoring system for an automated cat feeder using a it for questioning by researchers. It gives sustainable and
webcam and a stepper motor attached as the main controller cost-effective access to authoritative data from hundreds of
to a Raspberry Pi. The camera was able to capture veterinarians across Australia to Australian researchers and
photographs (photos or videos) that were stored on the opens up great opportunities for international cooperation
Raspberry Pi with the webcam and the ancon functions. with similar ventures in the UK and elsewhere. There are
Using a General-Purpose Input Output (GPIO) pin and a three phases in VetCompass Australia. Next the rollout of
program plugged into the Raspberry Pi, the stepper motor the VetCompass program to gather medicinal veterinary
will switch the supply valve. The Raspberry Pi is then data from Australia. Secondly, coding platform creation
wired to the internet and a cloud network so that a web and enrichment (data presentation). And eventually,
browser or web view on a smartphone can be used for developing a world-first, natural language processing (NLP)
device monitoring remotely. The overall function of the application real-time monitoring interface. Advances in the
machine, either immediate or planned, as well as tracking processing and exchange of information from various
images or videos around the food in the form of feeding the practices would enable veterinary practitioners to provide
cat. Finally, it is proposed to upgrade the monitoring pet animals with dramatically improved standards of
system used to feed cats using a high-resolution camera. In treatment, enhancing their quality of life. (McGreevy,
addition, the use of a large stepper motor to make the Brodbelt and Hammond, 2017)
revolution more powerful and faster when feeding the cat.
(Anggraini and Rahman, 2020) In veterinary medicine, veterinarians believe there is a
strong demand for mobile devices and the use of this
Cyber-physical systems are a modern generation which, technology would enable them to exercise more efficiently.
by several new methods, blends machine and physical In this report, a veterinarians' online survey took a sample
capabilities and can communicate with individuals. This and investigated whether they felt that using mobile devices
thesis explored the ability of technology for computing, would boost their use. And the findings revealed that
connectivity, and regulation to strengthen human among veterinarians, mobile devices are popular and
relationships with pets. Many experiments have sought to widespread. To increase the quality and delivery of clinical
have a normal and informative approach to requesting veterinary medicine, the production of veterinary software
facilities, they point out. Attractive technologies for the and other electronic technologies has been encouraged by
future are also present in the emerging pattern in combining providing veterinarians with a greater understanding of
pet control and CPS technology. This thesis introduces an mobile technology. While this study was able to assess the
intelligent method of pet care based on Internet definition. current use and attitudes of mobile technologies, further
To allow digital home technologies for pets, they suggested research needs to be conducted to determine which factors
a mobility-aware algorithm, including an intelligent pet prevent full use of mobile technology. Finally, the biggest
door and a pet feeder. Its documented deployment has shortcoming they found was that veterinarians were aware
demonstrated that conventional goods can transcend the of the options available and found more technologies that
limitations of the method and satisfy the needs of pets. could be widely used to improve the field. (Andrews et al.,
(Own, 2012) 2015)

This research investigated the potential of the computer, The Pet Care Framework, which is based on the Android
connectivity, and control systems through the Internet of program, was introduced in this post. The goal of this
Things technology to facilitate human contact with pets. It framework was to have a non-exhaustive way based on a
could have a modern operating process, the underlying smartphone application, to care for your pet. The paper
vision behind the Internet of Things. The research not only explains this system's architecture methods and practical
presented the substantial change in the pet care elements. The system was developed by pet experts. This
infrastructure involved in the modern Internet of Things paper proposes the design of a mobile application based on
process but also answered the requirements of owners who an Android system to provide a user-friendly way for
people to pet and make money. However, in future defecation cushion, food and water dispenser. This project
experiments, they hope to add a new feature such as pet also has the potential for commercial viability, especially
breed recognition and improve the application using other in the urban lifestyle, compared to other ways to care for
advanced methods to improve the project and use the tool and monitor pets through pet facilities. The developed
to manipulate the application. (Saswadkar, 2018) mobile application provides the virtual presence of pet
owners by collecting information about the feeding
As pet ownership increases every year, so does the schedule of pets, music activation with voice activation of
demand for higher quality pet grooming products. This has pet parents, room temperature measurement and camera
encouraged the growth of this sector of the Internet of surveillance via a webcam. And, the mobile app has been
Things (IoT) technology. Using IoT technologies, pet successfully tested and proven effective in delivering what
owners can monitor the activities and position of their pet has been promised. (Luayon, Tolentino and Almazan, 2019)
remotely monitor the welfare of their pet, or even interact
with their pet. In the everyday lives of pet owners, all these Pet monitoring in smart cities is a challenging issue. The
smart pet care items play an important role. The main goal classic approach to identifying animal tracking methods,
of this research is to activate an integrated system that such as airbags, GPS and RFID, has the disadvantage of
encompasses the three basic elements that pet owners providing full monitoring and tracking of pets. Such
should be concerned about when they are busy or not. pets, devices have many limitations and very expensive. The
including the pet food bowl, water dispenser and litter box. massive improvement of Internet of Things (IoT) in smart
These three subsystems are connected to the local network cities can be used to provide human control and interaction
with Arduino Uno boards and Wi-Fi modules. In addition, with pets using the Internet and its technologies. This paper
the data collected from each sensor is processed and presents an approach to video tracking pets with the aim of
displayed on a smartphone application. Thus, pet owners identifying and categorizing the object of interest using in-
can obtain all information about the pet's food consumption, depth learning skills. (Hammam, Soliman and Hassanein,
water consumption, as well as the timing, duration and 2018)
frequency of defecation through just one interface. In
addition, the application also has a control feature enabled It is almost difficult to provide full-time attention to the
for pet owners to provide food anytime, anywhere. A pet due to the demanding work life with most pet owners
general statistical diagram with the mentioned values is and not being able to share the caring assignment with
presented in the application and is updated from time to others. This paper seeks to build an intelligent and
time. (Chen and Elshakankiri, 2020) collaborative method to resolve the distance between the
pet and the pet owner in order to address the previously
Mobile innovations have a huge effect on our lives on a described dilemma. Using the Linux operating system and
wide scale, helping end-users to enable new forms of the Raspberry Pi board as a development tool, this study is
healthcare services with advanced technology and rule- based on the IoT idea. The suggested device provides the
based expert systems. In particular, the availability of the pet owner with a mobile program that can connect with the
more user-friendly Android OS-based interface and pet over the Internet in real-time. The user will use the
economical smartphones offer new possibilities for vision module of the machine as a feed module to provide
continuous monitoring of the health status of pets, such as a view of his / her pet and monitor the servo motors of the
healthy dogs/cats, toxic ingestion and ingestion. In health handheld computer on the pet for feeding as an output
management and clinical practice, the recommended module. They hope that this technology can be improved
technologies also help to provide users with similar and used by pet owners for real-time contact with their
services addressed here are wide and important. In order to remote pets in the future, where they can physically be in
stop pet disease attacks, the pet smartphone app should be the same place. (Shih, Samani and Yang, 2016)
used. We may contact the pet expert in case of an
emergency by making an appointment online with this app.
This app helps locate the closest hospital for dogs. This III. METHODOLOGY
The title of this article is "The Impact of IoT Concept on
study addresses pet health issues based on cell phones.
Smart Petcare Applications" and the question that led to
(Kumar, Madhu and Sathish, 2017)
this study was "How is the Impact of IoT concept on smart
Petcare applications?" The purpose of this research paper
In Filipino, pet ownership has become an interesting
is to analyse the features and technologies on the IoT
addition to lives. With advancements in the Internet of
Things (IoT) development, doing well with pets can be concept of the current smart Petcare applications. This
study was performed using secondary data. A systematic
done remotely. Pets can be monitored through a mobile
approach was performed to gather data from published
application using microcontrollers and sensors designed to
connect to the internet. In the developed system, the research studies on the Smart Petcare applications.
researchers designed a remotely activated smart pet door,
 The following steps were used in the process of paper For the Pet Care • CPS (Cyber
selection. At first, the related researches were found Appliance of Location Physical System)
Aware Infrastructure on technology
according to keywords. Then both manual and automatic
Cyber Physical System
searches were performed to find the most suitable (Own, 2012) • Smart pet door
researches. In the searching process, special attention was
given to researches that were found from ResearchGate, • Smart pet feeder
IEEE and ACM digital library. As the next step duplicate • Numerous
researches were removed. Then read the abstract and networking devices
keywords of all the papers. Then the exclusion criteria were
• Mobile application
followed to remove the researches that are not related to my
research area. Inclusion criteria were followed to select • Suggestion- litter
recent papers that can be applied to my study area. boxes & pet cam
As the next step research papers were analysed. The
The study and • Smart pet door
findings from those papers were summarized in the tabular application of the IoT in Pet
format as it is an easier method to represent the findings systems (Own, Shin and • Smart pet food bowl
from the literature review. In this context, it helped to Teng, 2013b)
• Suggestion- pet
identify the Impact of the IoT concept on smart Petcare
grooming devices
applications over time, it thus allowed to envision new
possibilities for research. Pet Care System Based • Mobile application
on Android Application
IV. ANALYSIS (Saswadkar, 2018) • Real-time dashboard

• Suggestion- pet
Table 1: Analysing existing features breed recognition
Research Title Subcategory
Implementation of an • Arduino Uno board
Automatic Pet • RFID tag (Pet collar) IoT based Pet Care System
(Chen and Elshakankiri, • Wi-Fi modules
Monitoring and Feeding
System Using IoT • IR sensor (Checking 2020)
• Mobile application
(Subaashri, Sowndarya and for food availability)
Sowmiyalaxmi, 2017) • Health/activity
• Arduino(gateway)
monitors
• Mobile application
• Pet monitors and
• Suggestion- RTC to interactive cameras
the feeder
Health experts for pet • Mobile application
Smart Pet Care System • CCTV service monitor system with IOT
(Kumar, Madhu and • Real time dashboard
using Internet of Things
(Kim, 2016) • Remote feeder Sathish, 2017)
• GPS tracking
• Remote automatic
• History and trends
defection
overview
• Mobile application
A smart pet care IOT • Mobile application
Mobile-based • Web cam & stepper mobile application (Luayon,
Tolentino and Almazan, • Camera surveillance
monitoring system for an motor (Remote
2019) via a webcam
automatic cat feeder using feeder)
Raspberry Pi (Anggraini • Room temperature
and Rahman, 2020) • Raspberry
measurement
pi(gateway)
A Pet Animal Tracking • Air tag
• Mobile & web-
System in Internet of Things
based application • GPS & RFID
using Deep Neural
• Suggestion- high- Networks (Hammam,
Soliman and Hassanein, • Deep learning
resolution camera & capabilities (detect
large stepper motor 2018)
and classify the
object of interest)
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And especially most of the researches mainly focused on McGreevy, P., Brodbelt, D. and Hammond, J. (2017)
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Completion of this task couldn’t have without the
participation of many people. Their contribution to this
matter is highly appreciated and very gratefully
acknowledged. I would like to express my sincere gratitude
and appreciation to our senior lecturers, Dr Nirosha
Wedasinghe and Mr Pathum Kathriarachchi, Head of
Information Technology Department. Also, I wouldn’t be
able to complete this research without the supervision of
Mr Ashen Wanniarachchi of General Sir John Kotelawala
Defence University. It was a great privilege and honour to
research under their guidance.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

WLSV Liyanage is a 3rd-year

undergraduate student of the
Information Technology department at
General Sir John Kotelawala Defence
University. Research interest area is
Networking

Niroosha Wedasinghe graduated from

London Metropolitan university-UK,
and she has completed her Masters in
CSU Australia. Currently, she is
reading her PhD in the KDU
Postgraduate Faculty. Her research
interests are in the field of Digital
accessibility and Management Information Systems. She
has published, reviewed, and supervised many types of
research nationally and internationally

Mr WAAM Wanniarachchi is a
Lecturer (Probationary) in the
Department of Information
Technology in General Sir John
Kotelawala Defence University. He is
interested in the field of research in
Machine learning and Industry.

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