Development of Cat Care System Based on Internet of Things

Abstract

Cats, with latin names felis catus, has been cared by many people. Consequently, by pet owners, they need to pay attention to caring their cats. However, cat owners cannot be always together with their cat, so cat care cannot be carried out optimally. Thus, there's so many risks encountered by leaving the cat alone such as obesity, stress, negative interaction with other cat, etc. At the same time, cat daycare may not suitable with our cat behavior and that places are usually fully booked in holiday time. For that, a solution to the problems is needed. Solutions to the problems are defined by using internet of things technology. Hardware, software, and communication, as an aspect of internet of things, are considered to build the entire system. The system is divided into several sub-system that is cat feeder, cat playmate, automatic cat door, cat monitor, and mobile apps. Each of them representing certain problem which has been analyzed. The system is built to fulfill cat care needs to feed, play, keep them save, and monitor them. The features for caring the cats can be executed through a mobile phone with internet access or by schedule defined by users. This system is implemented by making four hardware prototypes, mobile apps, and communication processing through third party services and through own-built platform. The tests conducted in the prototypes showed good results with communication delay below 1.5 second, food amount measurement tolerance below 2 grams, working door functionality, and 15 fps video streaming with latency below 3 second.