Is that soi dog watching you?

[reader]

From Coconuts Bangkok

 

 

A team at the renowned animal welfare charity Soi Dog Foundation, based in Phuket but very active in Bangkok as well, is pushing ahead with a project to transform unwanted – and often brutally mistreated – street dogs into a valuable watchdogs to protect communities.

 

Together with a creative team at advertising agency Cheil Thailand, collaborators are developing a “smart vest” to take full advantage of the dogs’ biologically-bred sense of purpose and keen senses, with the hope of integrating them better into Phuket’s communities.

 

Leading the team, Pakornkrit Khantaprab explained, “We’ve created a smart vest for stray dogs to turn them into watchdogs. The vest will combine technology with dog instincts – such as barking, super senses and territorial behavior.”

 

When the dog wearing the vest barks, a notification will be sent immediately to people near the location where the dog is barking via 4G/WiFi, Pakornkrit said.

 

Anybody with the mobile phone application the team created can access the information and even view what the dog can see via a high-definition camera stitched into the vest, he added.

“Our app can distinguish between normal barking and furious barking. The sound waves are different,” Pakornkrit explained.

 

“Technically, the camera can be accessed all the time but we can program it to activate only when the dogs are barking,” he said.

 

To prevent the camera from being activated when the dogs are getting up to inappropriate “happier” things, Pakornkrit said, “The sound waves are also different. We have programmed it to detect only when they bark at something suspicious.”

 

https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/soi-dog-foundation-employ-street-dogs-watchdogs-via-high-tech-vests-video/

[vinapu]

it's very moving that they thought about inappropriate "happier" things in dog's behavior,often done in full view anyways . It upholds notion that Thailand is  a land of FUN