Desarrollo de un prototipo de dispensador automático de alimento para perros usando la plataforma Raspberry Pi 3B y controlado remotamente por una aplicación en Android

Abstract

The activities of modern life prevent the canine owners from attending their food needs in the correct way.

This project seeks a solution to this problem, through the development of a prototype automatic dog food dispenser, implemented under the Raspberry Pi 3B platform, and which is controlled remotely from a mobile application developed in Android.

For the elaboration of the prototype, an investigation has been carried out on the main factors that affect the feeding of a canine, as well as the characteristics of the devices and mechanisms to allow the dispensation of the food for the dog.

The feeding profiles have been designed, which serve to calculate the energy requirements of a can. The electromechanical dispensing system and the structures that contain it have been designed. It has also designed both the mobile application and the programs in Python, with which the dispenser interacts with the Firebase services.

All the subsystems that make up the prototype have been implemented, and tests have been carried out on the functioning of both the mobile application and the prototype of the dispenser, so that the necessary tasks for the automatic dispensing of the food are fulfilled.