A door installed in your front door can be a wonderful way to allow your feline friend or canine companion to come and go as they please, but it could also bring unwanted visitors. Petvation solves the problem with the help of AI facial recognition technology and a mobile app.
Perhaps you already have a small entryway that allows access only to your kitten or dog. Currently, the most advanced models are based on a special collar for our furry friends to wear, but they are a little uncomfortable for them.
For this Petvation has applied the same technology to the base of ours gadgets technologies (smartphones above all) to guarantee "exclusive" access to dogs and cats at home.
Bau! Be recognized
Petvation is installed directly in the door, with its groups of cameras with a 120 ° field of view.
At the moment, the little door seems that recognizing and authorizing the faces of animals is more difficult than with humans. For this reason, the system uses images to recognize dogs and cats based on their entire body size. And it doesn't stop at our quadrupeds at home: Petvation can recognize raccoons, ducks, foxes, snakes and bar their entrance door.
When our pet approaches, Petvation identifies him and opens the small motorized door: he checks (with some sensors) that there is not a leg or a tail left outside and only when Fido has already entered completely does it close again.
Everyone is 'registered', even the animals.
It goes without saying that the inevitable companion app allows you to manage, monitor, open and close the dog and cat door even remotely.
The smart door is wind and water resistant, has an aluminum alloy construction and is powered by a mains adapter to ensure continuous operation. If desired, you can connect it to a USB power bank to avoid having to keep it plugged into a power outlet.
Like other oddities that have caught my attention in the past, this first pet face recognition model is also a crowdfunding project.
If you want to know more, or are interested in financing the production of Petvation, you can find all about it Kickstarter. Hopefully, the first models should be out of the oven in October 2022.
