pet monitor

The Pet Activity Monitor is a self-contained PCB board inside a plastic casing to make it easy to attach to your pet's collar or use the included collar. This activity monitor features a Renesas Synergy™ Platform S3-series MCU, and multiple Renesas power and analog components.

The device monitors activity and sound from your pet. It attaches to the pet's collar and can count steps taken by the pet throughout the day. It can also detect barking in dogs.

Pet activity data is logged into the MCU data flash memory making it easy for you to read this data from the monitor to see what times of the day that your pet is most active. The data collected can be downloaded to a PC via a USB port on the device. Collected data and settings can be viewed and managed through the Pet Monitor PC application.

The Pet Activity Monitor is delivered preloaded with a demonstration program. The demonstration program shows several features of the Pet Activity Monitor and source code is available as a programming example for developers.

While this design has been created specifically as a pet monitor, with some modifications to code and/or additional hardware using the non-populated PMOD connector, it could be used as a remote sensor/logger for a variety of applications.

Main features

• Accelerometer detects movement/steps

• MEMS microphone with the ISL28133 op amp for audio detection (barking)

• Utilizes low power consumption

• Low continuous active current with on/off switch

• Powered with one LIR2032 coin cell battery rechargeable by USB or +5V wall plug

• Quickly designed utilizing Synergy SSP API

• PC application using Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition to create a VB.NET application to interface to the device from Microsoft Windows.

• Expandable with the Serial PMOD port

Software and Tools

Evaluation board installation application (pet-monitor-setup.exe) includes the following items:

• User manual for the ISL devices

• User manual for the Synergy S3A3

• Pre-built PC application

• Solution Source Project PC application

• e² studio project files

• Hardware design files

• Synergy CDC drivers for Windows OS

• User's guide for the Pet Activity Monitor hardware

To install the PC software you will require administrator rights on your PC. This is because the installation requires drivers to be installed on your PC.