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There is a lot to learn from your dog, but a dogs life is short.
INUPATHY is your chance to learn more from your dog, in depth.
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How can we learn more from our dogs?
The idea is to LOOK INSIDE DOGS BODY.
INUPATHY senses the small changes in your dogs
heart rate, and visualize it in real time.
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INUPATHY is the worlds first attempt to
visualize dogs mental condition, from heart rate analysis.
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The INUPATHY cloud service will take care of dogs heart rate data.
Long term analysis of the dogs condition will be done at the cloud service.
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The INUPATHY system consits of three components.
Hardware, application, and cloud service.
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As our future vision, we will implement device connectivity.
Via smartphones or other relay device,
INUPATHY will be able to send emotion
data to various devices. Imagine what will happen!
A toy reacting to your dogs' attention!
A camera that catches your dogs' happiest moment!
A food bowl that can tell you how much you dog likes his meal!
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INUPATHY is designed like a harness.
Sensor will be attached to the chest belt.
The broad white area of the device is the LED display.
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INUPATHY will be a perfect gift for your families dog,
or your friends dog!
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Hi, I am Joji Yamaguchi, inventor of INUPATHY.
I am a software hardware engineer living in Japan.
I am a father of a dog (was two), and two human children.
I was a biology researcher before I started my career as an engineer.
My main interest was in animal behavior. When I was 27, I got married. My wife brought her dog, Midori, with her, and I became a father of a dog.
Soon after our marriage, we invited a second dog to our family.
His name is Akane, and he is the very reason why I invented INUPATHY.
When he was young, Akane seemed to be always afraid of something.
I wanted to know him better. I wanted to know what made him stressed,
and how I can make him more relaxed.
When I touch his chest, I could feel his little heart beating, sometimes fast, and some times slow. I wanted to be able to sense this any time. And so, I came up with the idea of visualizing dogs heart rate.
To do this, I had to invent a sensor that can sense heart beat over thick fur, gently, with no pain.
I stepped in further to analyze heart rate. I modified HRV analysis,
which analyzes the fluctuation of heart beat rhythm,
so that it becomes suitable for dogs.
After carefully observing dogs' behavior and the HRV pattern,
I found patterns that appears typically when the dog is happy, and when the dog is concentrated.
INUPATHY gave me many insight about Akane.
For example, when he is afraid,
he can't be calm by talking to him gently.
I have to give him a gentle touch.
My belief is, that technology is not for human only.
Since our technology uses resource on earth,
we have to share it with other members on earth.
INUPATHY is also my first step to make a better
relationship with other species on Earth.
This is a dream far too big for one man. Please help me.
Become a part of the change we need to make.
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During our user test, we have tried INUPATHY on more than 40 dogs.
It seemed to be working well,
but we must admit that there can be exceptions.
We also still have a lot to do to optimize our design,
to make it as comfortable for dogs as possible.
Therefore, please note that there could be design changes.
We aim to be certified for FCC, CE, and TELEC.
When shipping to areas where our wireless module is not certified,
we may have to disable the wireless connectivity of INUPATHY
(Heart rate analysis and LED display will be supported,
but will not be able to connect to other devices, such as iOS devices).
When we fail to meet our $30,000 goal,
we will give up making steel mold,
but will produce and ship the product,
with 3D print. In this case,
the device will not be flexible, and will not be drip-proof.
Battery life is currently approximately 5 hours
(this depends on the average heart rate).
We will try our best to make it last longer.
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When we meet our $30,000 the majority of the money
will be spent on steel mold.
Remaining will be used on safety tests and authentications
(FCC, CE, TELEC).
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Please feel free to contact us from our web site.
Tell us what you think about INUPATHY,
and our vision. Please become a part of the team.
AND PLEASE SHARE! Tell your friend our story.