Dog Bowel Pad Training IoT by Automatic Snack Feeder and Owner’s Voice Compliment Speaker for Human Convenience

Dog bowel pad training is a common activity for indoor dog owners. Dog owners have been training bowel pads through reward learning to dogs directly. Dog owners are impossible to observe dogs 24 hours a day and difficult to conduct identical bowel pad training each time. This paper aims to create an IoT (Internet of Things) system that helps dog bowel pad training proceed equally each time without time constraints. It includes a system for detecting dog bowel movements on a pad, an automatic snack feeder system, an owner’s compliment voice playback speaker system, and a product execution data collection website. The use of sensors to verify the accuracy of checking a dog bowel movement is explained by experiments on the dog’s defecation temperature information and weight information. For future works, actual dog testing is expected to provide better accuracy.