Monitoring Your Dog's Health with the Minitailz

The Minitailz allows for daily tracking of your dog's resting heart and respiratory rates through a patented mix of motion sensors and deep learning models that can detect small movements at the dog's neck. An artificial intelligence model continuously runs to identify the best time to take a measurement when your dog is at rest.Note: it is not possible to measure these biometric data when the dog is active because their movements mask the pulsations. The data displayed each day are the averages of different measurements taken throughout the day.

These metrics are important to monitor your dog's well-being and health, particularly their heart health. Heart problems are very common in dogs, especially past a certain age or for certain predisposed breeds. The earlier a heart problem is detected and treated, the less severe the consequences on the dog's health will be. Learn to know your dog's normal values to detect any changes that could indicate a problem. In particular, if you notice a continuous and significant increase over several days/weeks in your dog's resting heart or respiratory rate, consult your veterinarian.

The Heartprint signature is a geometric representation of your dog's heartbeats. The shape is unique to your dog at a given time and stable over time. It varies from dog to dog depending on their breed, age, heart shape, stress or health issues.Unlike humans, dogs have a significant sinus arrhythmia. Sinus arrhythmia refers to variations in heart rate depending on the respiratory cycle: their heart rate accelerates when the dog inhales, and decelerates when they exhale.On the graph, the more the points are distributed along the diagonal, the less sinus arrhythmia your dog has. The level of sinus arrhythmia can indicate fatigue, stress, or pain in your dog. This level, directly extracted from the Heartprint signature, will be presented to you soon in the app.

This is the first time that this type of biometric data is available on such a large scale, opening the doors to many research projects in collaboration with institutions around the world. In the coming weeks, you will be able to consult new health and well-being indicators built from the data presented to you today: heart rate, respiratory rate, and Heartprint signature. And in the coming months, you will regularly benefit from the results of our research projects.