Samsung-Backed Startup Offers A Biometric Authentication App For Dogs
A Samsung-backed startup has developed an app-based solution that scans the unique surface pattern on a dog's nose as a biometric authentication measure to identify pets, saving owners the hassle of using tracking devices. This isn't Samsung's first go at offering pet-friendly solutions. In 2018, Samsung pitched an LTE-powered SmartThings Tracker for pets to let owners find their pets, assess their roaming patterns, and also set movement boundary alerts.
But Samsung is not the only player in the segment. At Consumer Electronics Show 2022, French brand Invoxia showcased what it calls a BioMetric Smart Dog Collar armed with biometric sensors to monitor a dog's heart and respiratory, in addition to location tracking in real-time. However, scientists have lately been pushing to adopt biometrics-based identification widely, relying on features like patterns on a Zebra's skin, blood vessel web in rodent ears, spots on a koala's nose and the ridges on a cow's snoot.
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A South Korea-based startup called Petnow, part of Samsung's C Lab program, wants to emulate the nose-based biometric identification formula for dogs. Just like the unique pattern of ridges on bovine muzzles, the nose print for dogs is also as unique as human fingerprints. Petnow has created an app that employs artificial intelligence algorithms to identify nose prints of dogs and is said to be 98 percent accurate at its job. Furthermore, the self-learning ML model ensures that the speed and accuracy only go up with the passage time. And as a safety measure, all the biometric data of pets is encrypted before being stored on the cloud.
The app automatically performs the nose scan without
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