AI application for Pets

An amalgamation of AI technology and pet care hardware systems, to improve the dietary habits of beloved pets. The need of this application for pets is to identify their food preferences, record the “happiness score”, manage the healthy food quantity, place automatic orders for the purchase of the food item and detect early signs of health issues.

A revolutionary pet feeding smart device that uses AI to grasp the food patterns that your pet loves to dine upon, chooses the food your pet is fond of for home delivery, discovers any early-stage syndrome, and many more while transforming the entire pet industry. The product is meant to enhance your pet’s comfort and well-being.

‘AI for Pets’ is a revolutionary pet feeding smart device that uses AI to grasp the food patterns that your pet loves to dine upon, chooses the food your pet is fond of for home delivery, discovers any early-stage syndrome, and many more while transforming the entire pet industry. The product is meant to enhance your pet’s comfort and well-being.

About the client

The client is a new entrant in the pet industry (also known as Petconomy in the Asian market. Their organization provides pet-focused software solutions to aid pet-parents with different aspects of their pet’s mental & physical health.

This AI-based application was their vision to provide food-related health assistance to pet parents.

The Challenge

The idea of AI-based application for pets was unique and needed validation for market acceptance. A minimum viable product (MVP) for an AI-integrated pet happiness system, was the best option. The only major challenge was to identify the features that would be the part of the first phase of the MVP; minimum features with a fully functional system.

The Product

We have adopted the Agile SDLC model to develop ‘AI for Pets’. Agile being an iterative and incremental process focuses on customer satisfaction and the rapid delivery of working software products.

Modules of ‘AI for pets’

The product consists of 3 modules as described below.

Electronic
dish
development

The electronic dish on which the pet’s food is placed was developed in this module

Mobile application development

A Mobile Application wherein customers can navigate and access all the information regarding the product and their pets were developed.

Incorporation of Artificial intelligence

AI not only helps the product to recognize the food preferences of pets, picks pet's favorite food for delivery but also most importantly detects early health symptoms.

How it Works?

The food is placed on the dish and after the Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) of the food is scanned.
The integrated camera captures the likeness & behavior of pets towards the food.
The AI predicts the liked foods and orders the same for home delivery.
A spontaneous meal pattern is created which helps the product to automatically order pet’s favourite food after every 10 days.

“ AI For Pet’s”

Features and their
Benefits

Artificial Intelligence

Learns What foods your pet likes. Learns pet’s normal eating behavior. Detects changes in appetite, preferences, and behaviors.

Happiness Score

Calculates how much your pet likes an existing or new food.

Camera

Scans food SKU checked into the system. Identifies which pet is eating which food (multiple pets.)

Dish Of Choice

Accepts your pet’s favorite dish placed on the device (or use ours)

Cloud Software

Discovers feeding habits from other pets, food taste, and texture preferences.

Mobile App

Communicates pet’s food patterns, favorite pet brands SKUs, and home delivery scheduled from your smartphone. PC or MAC.

Speaker

Beeps when food SKU is successfully scanned to ensure data are captured.

Scale

Weight food intake before and after each feeding.

The Product’s Output

The table below depicts the food and respective Happiness Scores of 3 cats belonging to the same home.

Brand

Food

Cleste

Face
Happiness score

Jasper

Earthborn holistic

Chicken Catcciatori Grain

90.44

54.88

94.01

Applaws

Layers Chicken and Pumpkin in Aspic

96.62

90.62

90.03

Purina

Natural Ocean White Fish & Trout

78.08

92.79

64.19

Applaws

Seabream Mousse - Sardine, Mackerel

87.98

56.03

84.38

Applaws

Tasty Tuna Fillet With Shrimp in Broth

92.02

93.66

78.89

Purina

Weruva Truluxe Honor Roll _ Mackerel

82.43

67.22

81.87

Applaws

Weruva Truluxe Steak Frites

80.23

85.71

1.14

Technologies Adopted

MVP application for pets uses Big Data - Pet Intelligence that provides health, happiness, and longevity insights of your pet by analyzing its food patterns and behavior.

Tech Ingredients accommodated inside:

Python

Raspberry Pi

React-native

Mobile Application Development

Nodejs

Backend Development

Github

For code versioning

Jenkins

CI/CD

MongoDB

Database

Product Benefits

There are innumerable advantages of using our product and I have listed a few of them below:
You can serve your pet only the food that it loves to dine on and so, we can clearly say that the AI inside is making the pet happy this way.
The selection of food preferred by your pet is done and ordered automatically for home delivery.
As the product always keeps track of your pet and its health, you can easily know about its behavior and well-being, and in turn, make smarter meals.
This product, with the use of its food scale, keeps in check the amount of food your pet is consuming and tracks the change in its habits.
The signal produced by the product is a combination of monitoring the food preferences and the behavior of your pet. This is useful in giving early warnings when there is an alteration in your pet's appetite.

Why Anuyat

The main attraction of this system is the inclusion of the power of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. It is the major feature that initiates all other features of the software.

Anuyat has a dedicated team of experts with hands-on experience in Machine Learning and related technologies such as Big Data, Visual Recognition, etc.

The hardware integration with the AI-based platform is another aspect of this project. Raspberry Pi, a credit-card-sized, single-board device, was used here in this application for pets. Anuyat has expert professionals to configure Raspberry Pi and develop the Python language application.