Smart Automatic Cooling System with Reduced Humidity Effect for Pet House During COVID-19 Crisis

Abstract

Covid 19 is a pandemic crisis that affects not only human lifestyle but also pet. The crisis halts pets’ social activities and they need to stay at home. Some owners prefer to keep their pets in separate pet enclosure/house due to health issue. The pet enclosure needs to be comfortable as the pets need to stay inside it for quite a long time. Besides, living in middle of the city in Malaysia makes it difficult for people to get a good level of humidity for pets. Thus, this research aims to design and develop an automatic cooling system with reduced humidity effect that can give comfort to the pets for staying many hours inside the pet house. The system uses electronic sensors, peltier, silica gel and Arduino as the system controller. The system relies on Internet of Things (IoT), where the data analysis of the temperature and humidity of pet houses can be done by the users. Particularly, thermoelectric peltier for thermoelectric cooling system, Arduino Uno and NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi Module are used here. The proposed solution helps to ensure the desired comfort of a pet house, where pet owners can easily and efficiently monitor the temperature and humidity. The system is simple but it still can help maintaining the health and wellbeing of the pets.

Keywords

• cooling system