A Vital Sign Monitoring System Using a MEMS Microphone for Dog

We propose a vital sign monitoring system to use for health monitoring of the dog. To diagnose dog’s disease or to check dog’s health status, veterinarian firstly investigate the most basic vital signs such as body temperature, heart rate and respiratory rate. Remote and wireless acquisition systems of those vital signs have been paid attention at present time for animal’s continuous health monitoring. To use widely the remote and wireless vital sign monitoring system even to animal, the system have to be implemented cheaply. To achieve a cheap system, which can acquire vital signs remotely and wirelessly, we propose a vital sign monitoring system for the dog using a MEMS microphone and Raspberry pi based wireless system. To apply the vital sign monitoring system to the dog, harness has to be developed. In this paper, we demonstrate that heart rate and respiratory rate acquisition using the proposed system. Moreover, we show the harness developed for the proposed system.