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NEC to start AI-based service for “dialogue” with pets

A small sensor to be mounted in the collars of pet dogs and cats will collect their activity data, including how they are feeling, and the AI technology used in the service will translate the information into Line messages and send them to the smartphones of their owners, according to the company. (Shutterstock)
A small sensor to be mounted in the collars of pet dogs and cats will collect their activity data, including how they are feeling, and the AI technology used in the service will translate the information into Line messages and send them to the smartphones of their owners, according to the company. (Shutterstock)
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30 Mar 2021 03:03:07 GMT9
30 Mar 2021 03:03:07 GMT9

TOKYO: Japanese electronics maker NEC Corp. said Tuesday that it will launch in August an artificial intelligence-based service enabling people to have “dialogue” with and get “messages” from their pets through smartphone messaging app Line.

A small sensor to be mounted in the collars of pet dogs and cats will collect their activity data, including how they are feeling, and the AI technology used in the service will translate the information into Line messages and send them to the smartphones of their owners, according to the company.

Fees for the service are yet to be set.

Ahead of the launch, the firm will conduct from April a test of the service for some 100 people within the NEC group.

“We want to deliver to pet owners a sense of excitement of being able to learn how their dogs and cats are feeling when, for example, they are alone at home,” an NEC official said. 

The company hopes that the owners of some six million pets, or about one-third of all house dogs and cats in Japan, will use the service in the next five years.

The more pet activity data are collected, the more the accuracy of the service’s function of translating the data into text messages will be improved, according to the official.

JIJI Press 

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