Improved temperature monitoring for working dogs

Abstract

My invention is the Thermo Vest — a dog vest with an attached thermometer to notify you of the dog's temperature. Because of the thermometer that we used you can check the temperature of the dog via Bluetooth connection to your phone. This invention is to help owners keep track of their working or service dog's temperature so they do not over heat. There were four main steps to creating this vest; identifying a problem, researching a solution, testing out the design, and building a prototype. The FIRST® Lego® League (FLL) team that I was on generated the idea. FIRST Lego League is a STEM program that has three main parts: robot game, research project, and core values. Each year the project and robot game have a theme. Two years ago, it was Animal Allies, and while researching that theme, we identified the overheating of working dogs as a problem we wanted to solve.