Live vital signs
Heart rate, breathing and temperature refresh about every 5 seconds, with trend charts. If readings stop, the screen says so instead of repeating the last value.
Contactless vital-sign monitoring for veterinary clinics
Heart rate, breathing and temperature, measured without touching the animal.
PetVision is a cage-side device for veterinary clinics, with a web dashboard and an Android app. A radar reads heart rate and breathing, a thermal camera reads body temperature, and your team follows the readings and alarms from a computer or phone.
- Heart rate · breathing · temperature
- No sensors on the animal
- Alarms on your Android phone
The problem
Checking inpatients by hand leaves gaps.
Typically, someone takes the temperature, counts breaths and listens to the heart at set times, then writes the values on a sheet at the cage. It works, but it is hard on anxious patients, and what happens between checks goes unseen.
Gaps between checks
A change in breathing or temperature can go unnoticed until the next round, especially on a busy shift.
Handling stresses the patient
Holding an anxious animal still for a reading is stressful, and stress itself raises heart rate and breathing.
Readings on paper
Values written on a sheet at the cage are hard to read as a trend and hard to share with the rest of the team.
How it measures
How it measures without touching.
The device is placed at the cage, facing the animal, and takes a new reading about every 5 seconds. Nothing is attached to the patient.
Radar: heart rate and breathing
A radar sensor picks up the tiny body movements made by breathing and the heartbeat, and works out heart rate and breathing rate from them.
Thermal camera: body temperature
A thermal camera reads the heat given off by the animal's body. The vet enters one temperature taken by hand, and the device calibrates its readings to it.
Video camera: eyes on the patient
A regular camera lets your team look in on the animal from the web or the Android app, and switch to the thermal image when needed.
Features
What your team gets.
Alarms on the team's phones
Starting limits come from veterinary references for the species, weight and age, and the vet adjusts them. When a limit is crossed, the team's Android phones get a notification.
Live and thermal video
Look in on the patient through the regular or the thermal camera, from the web or the Android app. Sessions are recorded for later replay.
A report for every session
When monitoring ends, a printable report is ready, on your clinic's letterhead if you like, with trend charts, an alarm log and any gaps in the readings with the reason.
Keeps measuring through outages
If the internet drops, readings are stored on the device and sent with their original times once it is back. A battery keeps it running through a power cut.
Each clinic's data stays separate
A clinic sees only its own patients and readings, and staff work with their own logins and permissions. Owners' contact details never reach the device.
Where we are
An early-stage venture with a working system.
- Working today
- The device, cloud platform, web dashboard and Android app run together.
- Tested
- On our own prototype device, with real internet and power cuts and a 48-hour continuous run.
- Next
- A small first batch of devices, remote software updates, Wi-Fi setup from the phone, and our first pilot clinics.
PetVision helps veterinary teams keep watch. It does not diagnose, and clinical decisions stay with the vet. Measurement is still being refined and has not yet been clinically validated.
Contact
Get in touch.
Do you run a veterinary clinic and want to try PetVision, or would you like to know more about our work? Write to us.