The Dog Collar project is a citizen science project encouraging pet owners to understand better their animal while contributing to research. This is an open hardware collar containing motion sensors (3d gyroscope and accelerometers) to measure the activity of a dogs. An onboard memory and battery will allow data to be stored for days. A bluetooth module allow synchronisation with moibile devices and computers. Dog owners will be able to know if their dog exercice enought and what he is doing along the day. As it is an open source projet dog owners are always owners of their data and can choose to share or not anonymized data with researchers. Those data are very usefull for research on aging as dog age in 20 in the same way as humans in 80 years. Moreover dog have a quite know genotype and so researchers will be able to correlate genotype phenotype and environemental factors on a large scale. There is also an educational project aiming at childrens : the idea is to bring the children to be more curious about nature around. They learn new things about animals by observing their dog.

1. Understanding better your pet, contribute to
research .
15th December 2013
Kevin Lhoste

4. Open hardware
Device
• Arduinocomptible MCU
(Atmega32u4)
• Advanced 6-axis motion sensor
(accelerometer, gyroscope)
• Bluetooth LowEnergy (BT4.0)
• Estimatedretaiprice~50$

5. Open collar > Dog collar
100 % open source*
Github.com/kevinlhoste/
Small size and weigth (3.3
cm x 1.7 cm, < 20 g)
100% customizable

6. With open collar everybody can
understanding better animals !
Kids
Pet owners
Researchers

7. Pet Activity and health monitoring

8. Research on ageing on pets
Lipsitz
et
al.
JAMA.
1992
Apr
1;267(13):1806-­‐9.

9. Learning by questioning for kids : Real data
based research quest
What
do
you
want
to
learn
today
?
Sleep
Alimenta@on
Cogni@on
Physical
condi@ons

10. Data based research Quest
Choice
of
subject
and
type
of
ac@vity
=>
Tutorial
with
known
data
=>
Evalua@on
=>
Gathering
and
analysis
of
real
data
Same process as crowdcrafting
(citizen science) for adults
=>
Feedback
/
Communica@on
of
results
=>
Going
further
?
MOOC
Project
noah
=>
Opening
on
new
interest
(future
ac@vi@es
etc..)

11. Lets
work
on
the
sleep
of
dogs
!
Sleep
Alimenta@on
Cogni@on
Physical
condi@ons

12. Look
at
this
curve
,
it
is
an
acurve
represen@ng
ac@vity
of
a
dog
during
a
day.
The
blue
part
is
the
sleep

13. Now
it
is
your
turn
select
the
part
of
this
curve
corresponding
to
sleep

14. Very
good
!
Now
lets
work
on
real
data
from
your
dog
!

15. In
this
dataset
can
you
find
how
many
hours
did
your
dog
slept
yesterday
?

16. What
about
the
other
animals
?
Which
one
of
these
animals
do
you
sleep
the
more
?

18. Career Mode
Veterinary
Engineer
Biologist
Physicist

19. Next Steps
- Implement Bluetooth 4.0
- Implement energy optimization
- New design (smaller & more resistant)
- Continue experimentation with veterinary doctors
- Other sensors useful ? (heart rate etc..)

20. Acknowledgments
AXA – chair for research on
ageing