WO2015178604A1

WO2015178604A1 - Companion animal weight care system and service method with electronic chart

Info

Publication number: WO2015178604A1
Application number: PCT/KR2015/004580
Authority: WO
Inventors: Sung Pil Park
Original assignee: Design Craft Co., Ltd.
Priority date: 2014-05-21
Filing date: 2015-05-08
Publication date: 2015-11-26
Also published as: KR20150133978A

Abstract

A companion animal weight care system and a service method with an electronic chart are provided, The system includes a wearable device being worn on a companion animal's body, and including a controller for data processing, an acceleration sensor, a wireless communication module and a chargeable power supply to generate activity information of the companion animal and to communicate data with a smart terminal; a smart terminal communicating wirelessly with the wearable device and including an weight care application for the companion animal, wherein the weight care application is inputted a registration information of an object companion animal and a calorie intake of the companion animal; a veterinarian electronic chart system communicating with the smart terminal through the internet network, and being inputted a weight care information of the object companion animal.

Description

COMPANION ANIMAL WEIGHT CARE SYSTEM AND SERVICE METHOD WITH ELECTRONIC CHART

The present invention relates to a companion animal health care system and a service method using the same, and more particularly, relates to a companion animal weight care system and a service method linked with veterinarian's electronic charts.

A companion animal designates an animal living with a person, and means that people are indebted to animals and an animal is not a toy for people. The exemplary companion animals are dogs and cats.

Particularly, a dog and a cat settled down as a member of family by sympathizing with man such that a conservator has paid a lot of interests and investments for health of the companion animals. Further, feed and IT devices for the health of the companion animals have been invented.

As a prior art about feed, a Korean patent application No. 10-2005-7011818, 'System and Method of Customizing an Animal Feed Based on Heat Increment' filed by CAN Technologies Inc. has been disclosed.

The above prior art relates to a system and a method of determining a formulation of animal feed having a customized heat increment value, including an animal profile, an animal nutrient requirement profile, an evaluation criteria and/or ingredient nutrient content profiles, and calculating a formulation having a desirable heat increment value by using the information contained in the profiles and criteria to maximize satisfaction of an evaluation criteria.

As a prior art about the IT device, a Korean patent application No. 10-2012-0010120, 'Apparatus of Controlling Animal Biometric Information' filed by Turbo soft Ltd. has been disclosed.

The above prior art relates to a control apparatus of animal biometric information, and more particularly, relates to a control apparatus of animal biometric information which determines appetite condition, bowel condition and health condition of the animal by measuring a blood sugar of an animal, an amount of calorie consumption and an electromyogram pulse of an anal sphincter to perform events corresponding with the appetite condition, the bowel condition and the health condition of the animal. The control apparatus of animal biometric information according to embodiments of the above prior art includes a blood sugar measuring means for measuring a blood sugar of an animal; a calorie measuring means for measuring a calorie consumption of the animal; and a biometric information determining means for determining biometric information of the animal using at least one of the blood sugar and the calorie consumption.

The prior art can obtain advantages of performing a feed supply to the animal more rationally and efficiently by detecting the appetite condition more accurately using analysis of biometric signal such as the blood sugar and the calorie consumption of the animal, constituting a defecation environment by detecting the bowel condition of the animal more accurately using analysis of the biometric signal such as the anal sphincter pulse of the animal, and constituting an optimum living environment to the animal without direct care of a person by automatically controlling the feeding supply and the defecation environment for the animal based on biometric signal of the animal.

The prior art can provide feed customized to the companion animal or determine the biometric condition of the companion animal based on sensing information of sensors to provide specific events corresponding to conditions thereby providing an optimum living environment for the animal, however, it is difficult to implement accurate care and difficult to apply for actual companion animal because the prior art uses general data.

Particularly, there is a problem that veterinarian cannot care for the animal directly observe and care for the animal sufficiently even if the companion animal catch a disease such as obesity thereby necessarying continuous care and observation.

In case of Korea, there are four millions of dogs and one million of cats which are living with people as the companion animals, and 40% of them have or is exposed to diseases because of overweight (obesity). The conservators pay a lot of efforts and expense for weight loss of the companion animals, however, it is actual condition that there is not enough effect.

As described above, the reason that a remedy for the obesity does not affect actually. The reason is that appropriate feed is not provided because it cannot check whether the conservator provides appropriately the companion animal with prescription feed from the veterinarian, And the reason is it is not known that the companion animal consumes intake calories sufficiently. Therefore, the companion animal goes to supernutrition state thereby the loss of weight does not implement effectively.

As a result, more effective system and service are required to lose the weight of the companion animal, and the conservator and the veterinarian to observe and manage continuously the companion animal.

The present disclosure provides a system and a service method linked with veterinarian's electronic chart capable of increasing success possibility of weight loss and implementing the weight loss of the companion animal more effectively.

The present disclosure provides a system and a service method by which the veterinarian and conservator can observe and manage the companion animal during weight loss.

The present disclosure provides a system and a service method by which the veterinarian can make the weight care progress of the companion animal into data using the linked electronic chart to follow up the weight care of the companion animal.

The present disclosure provides a system and a service method by which the conservator can easily control the feed supply easily to prevent the companion animal from supernutrition.

The present disclosure provides a system and a service method capable of calculating accurately calorie consumption by calculating calorie consumption of the companion animal based on data according to a species and activity types researched by veterinarian group.

The present disclosure provides a system and a service method capable of driving relatively lower stress to the companion animal during weight loss.

Embodiments of the inventive concept may provide a companion animal weight care system liked with an electronic chart, including a wearable device which is worn on a companion animal's body and includes a controller for data processing, an acceleration sensor, a wireless communication module and a chargeable power supply to generate activity information of the companion animal and to communicate data with a smart terminal; a smart terminal communicating wirelessly with the wearable device and including an weight care application for the companion animal, wherein the weight care application is inputted registration information of an object companion animal and a calorie intake of the companion animal; and a veterinarian's electronic chart system linked with the smart terminal through the internet network and being inputted a weight care information of the object companion animal.

In some embodiments, the companion animal weight care system may further comprise a companion animal weight care data server which stores and manages the information inputted from the weight care application and the veterinarian's electronic chart.

In other embodiments, the companion animal weight care system may further comprise a feeding apparatus which includes a data receiver receiving feed amount data prescribed by veterinarian's electronic chart system through the internet network and a feed supplier automatically supplying feed of predetermined amount according to the feeding amount data.

In still other embodiments, the wearable device may further comprise a gyro sensor.

In even other embodiments, the controller of the wearable device may have reference data based on species and activity types of the companion animals and compare the reference data and the activity information to calculate consumption calorie of the companion animal.

In yet other embodiments, the reference data may be sent to the wearable device through the weight care application on the smart terminal to substitute for pre-stored reference data.

In further embodiments, the wearable device may further comprise a liquid crystal display indicating a consumption calorie of the companion animal.

In still further embodiments, the wearable device may receive text information inputted from the smart terminal having the weight care application for the companion animal to output the text data on the liquid crystal display.

In even further embodiments, the wearable device may be one of a Bluetooth communication module and a NFC(Near Field Communication) module.

In yet further embodiments, the weight care application may select kinds of feed and calculates calorie according to gram of provided feed.

In yet further embodiments, the weight care application may calculate calorie consumption based on the information from the wearable device.

In yet further embodiments, the weight care application may provide the information from the electronic chart system to conservator of the companion animal through the smart terminal.

In yet further embodiments, the weight care application may provide statistical information in which quantity of motion and calorie intake/consumption are classified by times and days.

Other embodiments of the inventive concept may provide a companion weight care service method using a companion animal weight care system which includes a wearable device being worn on a companion animal's body and including a controller for data processing, an acceleration sensor, a wireless communication module and a chargeable power supply to generate activity information of the companion animal and to communicate data with a smart terminal; a smart terminal communicating wirelessly with the wearable device and including an weight care application for the companion animal, wherein the weight care application is inputted a registration information of an object companion animal and a calorie intake of the companion animal; and a veterinarian electronic chart system communicating with the smart terminal through the internet network, and being inputted a weight care information of the object companion animal. The method may include a step of companion animal registration registering the object companion animal by the smart terminal having the weight care application for the companion animal; a step of prescript information provision providing prescript information about exercise prescription and feed prescription for the companion animal inputted from the electronic chart system to the smart terminal having the weight care application for the companion animal; and a step of weight care information provision providing the veterinarian's electronic chart system with calorie consumption information inputted to the smart terminal from the wearable device and feed intake calorie information supplied to the registered companion animal, through the smart terminal.

In some embodiments, the step of companion animal registration may comprise receiving and registering a photo image of the companion animal, birth information and body information; and liking the registered information with the veterinarian's electronic chart system.

In other embodiments, the step of companion animal registration comprises assigning a unique code to specify the registered companion animal.

According to embodiments of the inventive concept, the weight loss of the companion animal can be implemented effectively and success possibility of the weight loss can be improved.

And, the veterinarian and the conservator can observe and manage the companion animal during the weight loss, at real time.

Also, the veterinarian can follow up the weight of the companion animal by making the weight care progress of the companion animal into data using the linked electronic chart.

Further, the conservator can control feed supply easily to prevent the companion animal from supernutrition.

Furthermore, the calorie consumption can be calculated accurately by calculating calorie consumption of the companion animal based on data according to a species and activity types researched by veterinarian group.

Finally, the companion animal can feel relatively lower stress during the weight loss.

The accompanying drawings are included to provide a further understanding of the inventive concept, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification. The drawings illustrate exemplary embodiments of the inventive concept and, together with the description, serve to explain principles of the inventive concept, in the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a schematic drawing for illustrating a companion animal weight care system linked with an electronic chart;

Fig. 2 is a schematic drawing for illustrating a wearable device of the companion animal weight care system linked with the electronic chart;

Fig. 3 is a drawing for illustrating an exemplary wearable device of the companion animal weight care system linked with the electronic chart;

Fig. 4 is a drawing for illustrating a display of a companion weight care application of the companion animal weight care device; and

Fig. 5 is a drawing for illustrating a companion animal weight care service method using the companion animal weight care system linked with the electronic chart.

Advantages and characteristics of the inventive concept, and implementable representations thereof will be clearly understood with exemplary embodiments that are described below in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the inventive concept may be embodied in different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the inventive concept to those skilled in the art. The inventive concept may be merely defined with the scope of claims. Like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout the description.

It will also be understood herein that when a layer such as a conductive layer, a semiconductor layer or an insulating layer is referred to as being “on” another layer or substrate, the layer may be directly on the another layer or substrate, or intervening layers may also be present. It will also be understood that, although the terms such as a first, a second, a third, etc. may be used herein to describe layers or processes, the layers or processes should not be limited by these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish one layer or process from another layer or process.

All terms used herein are to describe the inventive concept that should not be limited by these terms. As used herein, the singular forms are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It also will be understood that, as used herein, the term “comprises” and/or “comprising” is open-ended, and includes one or more stated constituents, steps, actions and/or elements without precluding one or more unstated constituents, steps, actions and/or elements.

Furthermore, embodiments in the detailed description will be described with sectional views and/or plan views as ideal exemplary views of the inventive concept. In the drawings, the dimensions of layers and regions are exaggerated for clarity of illustration. Thus, the exemplary views may be modified according to manufacturing technology and/or allowable error. Therefore, the embodiments of the present invention are not limited to the specific shape illustrated in the exemplary views, but may include other shapes that may be created according to manufacturing processes. For example, an etched region described with right angles may be rounded or be configured with a predetermined curvature. Thus, the regions illustrated in figures are schematic, and shapes of the regions illustrated in figures exemplifies particular shapes of device regions, but do not limit the scope of the inventive concept.

Hereinafter, a companion animal weight care system and service method with electronic chart according to embodiments of the inventive concept will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Fig. 1 is a schematic drawing for illustrating a companion animal weight care system linked with an electronic chart.

Referring to Fig. 1, the companion animal weight care system communicating through an internet network 40 may include a wearable device 10, a smart terminal 20 and a veterinarian's electronic chart system 30. The wearable device 10 is worn on a body of a companion animal and includes a controller for data processing, an accelerate sensor, a wireless communicating module and a chargeable power supply thereby generating activity information of the companion animal and communicating data with a smart terminal 20. The smart terminal 20 communicates with the wearable device 10 wirelessly and includes a companion animal weight care application in which a registration information and calorie intake of an object companion animal are inputted. The veterinarian's electronic chart system 30 communicates data with the smart terminal 20 to receive weight care information of the object companion animal.

The system may also include a web server which provides a conservator of the companion animal who connects through the internet network 40 by a user PC with a webpage for registering and managing the companion animal.

Information of the webpage provided from the web server may be linked with information inputted on the weight care application and the veterinarian's electronic chart system 30.

The system may further include a companion animal weight care data server 50 which stores and manages information inputted in the weight care application of the smart terminal 20 and the veterinarian's electronic chart system 30.

The companion animal weight care data server 50 may be a conventional data server managing data, may store and manage the information inputted on the weight care application of the smart terminal 20, the registration information of the companion animal and the information inputted on the veterinarian's electronic chart system 30. The companion animal weight care data server 50 may provide data when various host such as the smart terminal, the veterinarian's electronic chart, the web server and the user PC request data.

The system may further include a feeding apparatus 60 including a data receiver which receives feed amount prescribed by the veterinarian's electronic chart 30 through the internet network and a feed supplier which supplies automatically feed according to feed amount data.

The feeding apparatus 60 is a feed supply means which includes the data receiver connected with internet network by a wireless communication or a wire communication and the feed supplier supplying feed automatically. The feed supplier may supply feed at calculated amount by a mechanical means such as a motor.

This feeding apparatus 60 may be various types and structures of feed supply equipment and is not restricted within a specific structure or type of the feed supply equipment. And the feeding apparatus 60, however, receives prescribed feed amount data regarding to the amount of feed inputted on the veterinarian's electronic chart thereby supplying the prescribed feed amount to the companion animal.

The wearable device 10 may have a structure of Fig. 2 which is a schematic drawing for illustrating a wearable device of a companion animal weight care system linked with an electronic chart, and having various structures and types capable of wearing on a companion animal such as a dog or a cat.

For example, as shown in Fig. 1, the wearable device 10 may include a band or may have ring shape capable of being worn on a neck of the companion animal such as a dog and a cat.

Therefore, the wearable device 10 may be desirable to have a shape such as a necklace or a neck string which can be worn on a body such as a neck of the companion animal but does not burden to the companion animal.

As shown in Fig. 2, this wearable device 10 may include a controller 110 processing data, an acceleration sensor 120, a wireless communication module 130 and a chargeable power supply 140 to generate activity information of the companion animal and communicate data with the smart terminal 20.

Particularly, the controller 110 has a reference data according to species and activity types of the companion animals generated from researches of veterinarian groups, and the reference data and the activity information of the companion animal are compared to calculate calorie consumption of the companion animal thereby calculating accurate calorie consumption.

This reference data may be deduced from the researches about calorie consumption according to species of the companion animals and according to activity types of the species of the companion animal. The reference data stored in the wearable device 10 may be update in maintenance. The reference data may be replaced to be updated by new reference data which is sent to the wearable device 10 from the weight care application of the smart terminal 20.

Hereinafter, the components of the wearable device 10 will be described in detail.

The controller 110 is a means for data process to calculate calorie consumption of the companion animal based on information inputted from the acceleration sensor 120.

Specifically, the controller 110 may include a memory for storing a program of various drives and data operations, and a data processer for operation processing to calculate activity metabolism based on the information in the memory inputted from the acceleration sensor 120, to calculate basal metabolism based on preset body information of the companion animal, and to add digestive metabolism thereby computing metabolism of the companion animal and computing calorie consumption of the companion animal.

In this time, the calorie consumption of the companion animal can be computed accurately by referring to the reference data as described above.

The acceleration sensor 120 may a sensor which measures accelerations (accelerations of gravity + acceleration movement) of X, Y and Z axes respectively. The acceleration sensor 120 measures motion of the companion animal.

The acceleration sensor 120 may be classified into inertia type, gyro type and silicon semiconductor type and measure dynamic force (motion) of the companion animal.

As shown in Fig. 1, the acceleration sensor 120 may be included in the wearable device 10 of the companion animal to output the motion of the companion animal as a signal.

Therefore, the acceleration sensor 120 of the inventive concept can detect the motion of the companion animal to output an electrical signal. The output electrical signal is sent to the controller 110 to become data formation by a predetermined program.

At the controller 110, the activity information may be input data of the program which calculates calorie consumption of the companion animal.

The acceleration sensor 120 of the inventive concept may be conventional acceleration sensor but not be restricted within specific acceleration sensor.

As shown in Fig. 2, the wearable device 10 may further include a gyro sensor 150.

The gyro sensor 150 is a sensor for detecting angular velocity of an object thereby measuring a direction of the companion animal's motion.

Thus, the acceleration sensor 120 measures the motion velocity and position (distance) of the companion animal, and the gyro sensor 150 measures moving direction of the companion animal.

Therefore, the system can calculate calorie consumption of the companion animal accurately.

The gyro sensor 150 as well as the acceleration sensor 120 may input electrical signal outputted from the activity of the companion animal to the controller 110, and the inputted electrical signal may become data formation in the controller 110.

The gyro sensor in the inventive concept may be conventional gyro sensor and be not restricted within specific gyro sensor.

The wireless communication module 130 is a means for communicating data with the smart terminal 20 in which the companion animal weight care application is installed. The wireless communication module 130 provides the smart terminal 20 with information (activity information) acquired from the acceleration sensor 120 and/or the gyro sensor 150 of the wearable device 10 or receives data inputted on the smart terminal 20 by the conservator.

The wireless communication module 130 may be a wireless communication module corresponding to a wireless communication module installed on the smart terminal 20.

For example, the wireless communication module 130 of the wearable device 10 may be a Bluetooth communication module or a NFC (Near Field Communication) module.

The Bluetooth communication module is a communication module following a short range wireless communication standard, connects and controls wirelessly various electric and IT devices in radius of 10 to 100 meters using 2.45GHz frequency to transmit/receive data within various digital home appliances as well as a computer, a printer, a cellular phone, PDA and etc. in a home or an office, at high speed using wireless frequency without a physical cable.

The NFC module is one of RFID technology and a communication module following non-contact communication technology using 13.56MHz frequency band such that a security is superior, price is cheap and there is no need of an extra setting within the wearable device 10 and the smart terminal 20.

The system may further include a 3G communication module or a Wi-Fi communication module. The 3D communication module or the Wi-Fi communication module may provide an environment for the wearable device 10 to communicate data through the internet network.

The chargeable power supply 140 may be a conventional means for power supplying on a cellular phone or a mobile to include a rechargeable battery and a charging circuit, thereby receiving the power by a charger, a cradle, USB terminal and etc. and charging an inner battery.

The wearable device 10 may further include a liquid crystal display (LCD) on which the calorie consumption calculated by the controller 110 is displayed.

As shown in FIG. 3, the liquid crystal displays the variety of information such as a calorie intake of the companion animal, calorie consumption by exercise of the companion animal, a remained energy of the chargeable power supply 140, a link status of the wireless communication module 130 and etc. such that the conservator can check them.

The wearable device 10 may receive text information inputted on the smart terminal 120 in which the companion animal weight care application is installed and output the text information on the LCD 160.

For example, the Liquid crystal displays the text information a unique code of the companion animal, a conservator's phone number, a companion animal's name and etc. inputted on the smart terminal 20 such that the conservator can find the companion animal when the companion animal is missing.

As shown in Fig. 3, the outer body of the wearable device 10 may formed of a plastic material to have a connecting portion 180 on which a band means such as a neck string is connected, a LCD 160, a power switch 190 and a charging terminal which are appeared on the outside.

As shown in Fig. 1, the smart terminal 20 may be a conventional wireless communication device such as a smartphone and an iPad which is a host in wireless environment such as the 3G and LTE. The companion animal weight care application is installed in the smart terminal 20 to receive the registration information of the companion animal and the calorie consumption of the companion animal.

The main function of the companion animal weight care application is the registration of the companion animal and the calculation of the calorie intake. As shown in (a) of Fig.1, the companion animal weight care application may provide a selection screen on which a companion animal is registered and a calorie consumption is calculated. The companion animal weight care application may further include a home button for menu selection or screen switching, an off button, a message check button for checking information sent to a conservator such as an announcement, an notice and a direction of a veterinarian inputted from the veterinarian's electronic chart system 30, a camera button, a data storing button and various buttons.

As shown in (b) of Fig. 4, an input screen for inputting a picture of the companion animal, species, a birthday and a conservator's phone number may be provided. A companion animal may be registered when a conservator inputs information of the companion animal and requests the registration.

A uniqueness or a clinical history may be further inputted such that the veterinarian can check the uniqueness or the clinical history of the companion animal with the veterinarian's electronic chart system 30.

The unique code may be assigned to the registered companion animal to choose a companion animal using the unique code and manage the information of the companion animal.

The registration of the companion animal and the assignment of the unique code may be implemented at a server of a service supplier which provides the companion animal weight care application.

Another function of the companion animal weight care application, the calculation of the calorie intake, may decide an amount of feed when the conservator feeds directly without following a direction from the veterinarian's electronic chart system.

For example, as shown in (d) of Fig. 4, in case that the smart terminal 20 indicates 'Mr. Hong Kildong, please give feed A, 50g to Mongsil today, calorie intake is 500Kcal' to notice an amount of feed for the companion animal to the conservator, there is no problem if the conservator follows the veterinarian's direction to feed the companion animal. If the conservator, however, feeds the companion animal arbitrarily, it is difficult to get the calorie intake according to the feed amount.

Therefore, as shown in (e) of Fig. 4, the companion animal weight care application of the inventive concept may provide a feed search window in which feeds are classified by manufacturers for selecting kinds of feeds and a screen in which calorie of the selected feed is provided and a feeding amount is calculated.

In case that the conservator supplies 50g of feed A of a manufacturer 1 to the companion animal, 500 is outputted on the calorie input window to indicate 500Kcal of the calorie intake for the provided feed to the conservator if the feed is selected by searching and 50 is inputted on the feeding input window.

In contrast, in case that the conservator tries to supply feed A of manufacturer 1 to the companion animal at 500Kcal, the feeding input window indicates 50 to inform the conservator of a feeding amount if the conservator selects feed by searching and inputs 500 in the calorie input window.

The companion animal weight care application calculates calorie according to a kind of feed and grams and provide the calorie such that the conservator can supply appropriate feed to the companion animal.

As shown in (f) of Fig.4, the companion animal weight care application also displays calorie intake and calorie consumption.

The calorie intake is a value which is calculated by the conservator with an application page, and the calorie consumption is calculated based on the information (for example, the activity information of the companion animal) inputted from the wearable device 10 to be displayed to the conservator.

The calorie consumption may be calculated by the wearable device 10, inputted through the smart terminal and outputted through the companion animal weight care application. Alternatively, the calorie consumption may be calculated and outputted from the activity information of the companion animal which is inputted to the smart terminal 20 from the wearable device 10.

The information of the calorie intake and calorie consumption may be stored in the smart terminal 20 and sent to the veterinarian's electronic chart system 30.

The companion animal weight care application may receive information which is inputted from the electronic chart system 30 through a data communication network to provide to the conservator of the companion animal through the smart terminal 20. The information is, for example, information such as inspection result regarding the companion animal and a direction note to be notified to the conservator or information necessary for the companion animal weight care.

The companion animal weight care application may provide statistical information in which is classified a quantity of exercise and calorie intake/consumption by times and days.

The veterinarian's electronic chart system 30 may communicate data with the smart terminal 20 through the internet network 40 to receive weight care information of the object companion animal, as shown in Fig. 1.

The veterinarian's electronic chart system 30 may be a conventional electronic chart system and share information such as calorie intake information, calorie consumption information and exercise information with the smart terminal 20 and provide the smart terminal 20 of the conservator with the amount of feed, an examination schedule, inspection result.

Hereinafter, a companion animal weight care service method using the companion animal weight care system will be described below.

As shown in Fig. 5, the companion animal weight care service method using the companion animal weight care system according to the inventive concept may include a step of companion animal registration S10, a step of prescription provision S20, and a step of weight care information provision S30.

The step of companion animal registration S10 provides a management server such as a companion animal registration server with information of an object companion animal through the smart terminal 20 in which the companion animal weight care application is installed. The conservator may input the registration information such as a photo image of the companion animal, birth information and body information. The registration information may be linked to the veterinarian's electronic chart system 30.

The step of companion animal registration S10 may assign a unique code to the registered companion animal for specifying the registered companion animal.

The unique code may be used as a means for specifying the companion animal such that various data of the companion animal can be cared according to the unique code.

The step of companion animal registration S10 may provide information about the companion animal to the veterinarian's electronic chart system 30 for providing a veterinarian with the information of the object companion.

The step of prescription provision S20 may provide the smart terminal 20 having the companion animal weight care application with prescription information referring to an exercise prescription and a feeding prescription that the veterinarian inputs through the electronic chart system 30.

The step of prescription provision S20 may provide the conservation with the exercise prescription and the feeding prescription through the veterinarian's electronic chart system 30.

The step of weight care information provision S30 may provide, through smart terminal 20, the veterinarian's electronic chart system 30 with information of calorie consumption and an exercise information which are inputted to the smart terminal 20 from the wearable device 10 worn on the companion animal, and calorie intake information of feed which is supplied to the registered companion animal.

The weight care information provision S30 may provide, through the smart terminal 20, the veterinarian's electronic chart system 30 with information such as calorie intake information, calorie consumption information, exercise information such that the veterinarian continuously checks a calorie status of the companion animal and a performance of the direction note in the step of the prescription information provision S20.

And then, the veterinarian may provide other prescription information based on the input data in the step of weight care information provision S30

As described above, the companion animal weight care service method using the companion animal weight care system linked with the electronic chart can provide an environment in which the veterinarian continuously observes the exercise and nutrition status of the companion animal and cares the weight of the companion animal.

The above-disclosed subject matter is to be considered illustrative and not restrictive, and the appended claims are intended to cover all such modifications, enhancements, and other embodiments, which fall within the true spirit and scope allowed by law, the scope of the inventive concept is to be following claims and their equivalents, and shall not be restricted or limited by the foregoing detailed description.

Claims

A companion animal weight care system linked with an electronic chart comprising:

a wearable device being worn on a companion animal's body, and including a controller for data processing, an acceleration sensor, a wireless communication module and a chargeable power supply to generate activity information of the companion animal and to communicate data with a smart terminal;

a smart terminal communicating wirelessly with the wearable device and including an weight care application for the companion animal, wherein the weight care application receives a registration information of an object companion animal and a calorie intake of the companion animal;

a veterinarian electronic chart system communicating with the smart terminal through the internet network and receiving a weight care information of the object companion animal.
The companion animal weight care system of claim 1, further comprising a companion animal weight care data server storing and managing the information inputted from the weight care application and the veterinarian's electronic chart system.
The companion animal weight care system of claim 1, further comprising a feeding apparatus which includes a data receiver receiving feed amount data prescribed by veterinarian's electronic chart system through the internet network and a feed supplier automatically supplying feed of predetermined amount according to the feeding amount data.
The companion animal weight care system of claim 1, wherein the wearable device further comprises a gyro sensor.
The companion animal weight care system of claim 1, wherein the controller of the wearable device has reference data based on species and activity types of the companion animals and compares the reference data and the activity information to calculate consumption calorie of the companion animal.
The companion animal weight care system of claim 5, wherein the reference data is sent to the wearable device through the weight care application of the smart terminal to substitute for pre-stored reference data.
The companion animal weight care system of claim 1, wherein the wearable device further comprises a liquid crystal display indicating a consumption calorie of the companion animal.
The companion animal weight care system of claim 7, wherein the wearable device receives text information inputted from the smart terminal having the weight care application for the companion animal to output the text data on the liquid crystal display.
The companion animal weight care system of claim 1, wherein the wearable device is one of a Bluetooth communication module and a NFC(Near Field Communication) module.
The companion animal weight care system of claim 1, wherein the weight care application selects a kind of feed and calculates calorie according to gram of provided feed.
The companion animal weight care system of claim 1, wherein the weight care application calculates calorie consumption based on the information from the wearable device.
The companion animal weight care system of claim 1, wherein the weight care application provides the information from the electronic chart system to conservator of the companion animal through the smart terminal.
The companion animal weight care system of claim 1, wherein the weight care application provides statistical information in which quantity of motion and calorie intake/consumption are classified by times and days.
A companion weight care service method using a companion animal weight care system linked with an electronic chart which comprises a wearable device being worn on a companion animal's body, and including a controller for data processing, an acceleration sensor, a wireless communication module and a chargeable power supply to generate activity information of the companion animal and to communicate data with a smart terminal; a smart terminal communicating wirelessly with the wearable device and including an weight care application for the companion animal, wherein the weight care application receives a registration information of an object companion animal and a calorie intake of the companion animal; and a veterinarian electronic chart system communicating data with the smart terminal through the internet network and receiving a weight care information of the object companion animal comprising:

a step of companion animal registration registering the object companion animal by the smart terminal having the weight care application for the companion animal;

a step of prescript information provision providing prescript information about exercise prescription and feed prescription for the companion animal inputted from the electronic chart system to the smart terminal having the weight care application for the companion animal; and

a step of weight care information provision providing the veterinarian's electronic chart system through the smart terminal with calorie consumption information inputted to the smart terminal from the wearable device and feed intake calorie information supplied to the registered companion animal.
The companion weight care service method of claim 14, wherein the step of companion animal registration comprises receiving and registering a photo image of the companion animal, birth information and body information, and liking the registered information with the veterinarian's electronic chart system.
The companion weight care service method of claim 14, wherein the step of companion animal registration comprises assigning a unique code to specify the registered companion animal.