geniusintraining
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Hi guys…
I need help, I was talking to a friend of mine that is a dog trainer, he does several types of training obedience, protection (bite), police, Schutzhund and now he has just started doing service/therapy.
The therapy dogs are for seizures, in children and adults the dogs do several things
Just before or during the seizure the persons body scent changes and the dogs can detect this, similar to a chemical imbalance in the body, but the dogs can smell the chemicals that our bodies put off.
The other thing is that the dogs are trained to alert when this is happening, they will bark, run, get someone, do what ever they are trained to do.
Here is my part, I am going to make 3 pieces
The first will be a annunciator, if the person is having an attack, the dog will be trained to push a mushroom button on a station, this button will have a phone dialer and call for help also sound a audible alarm, page a pager, etc. this is easy I can handle this.
The second part (short story first)
My friend and one of his clients (a young boy) were in a restaurant having lunch…after lunch the boy asked him if he would watch his dog for a minute while he went to the bathroom, so the boy went into the bathroom and while he was in there he had a seizure, the boy ended up fine, but every minute can make a world of difference.
So what my friend wants/needs is something that the child could have on their waist, and send a wireless tone to alert the dog, they have training collars for dogs, this may be the way to go but I would like to look at all and any ideas.
The third part is also wireless, the child (or dog) would push the button on the child’s waits and it would send a signal to the annunciator, anyone have any wireless info? I have none nor any experience. The longer the range the better, my thoughts would be if they are outside playing and the receiver inside connected to the phone, I need to do a very strong wireless signal to the enclosure and it needs to be small (the sender) the receiver can be bigger.
Also it needs to be cheep, we would be doing this at cost, some of the families/clients just need the help and can not afford it. So we want to keep it reasonable.
I am also excited about the fact that something that I may make (help make) will help someone…how cool would that be, I can make machinery move, but to help someone...
Many thanks,
Mark
I need help, I was talking to a friend of mine that is a dog trainer, he does several types of training obedience, protection (bite), police, Schutzhund and now he has just started doing service/therapy.
The therapy dogs are for seizures, in children and adults the dogs do several things
Just before or during the seizure the persons body scent changes and the dogs can detect this, similar to a chemical imbalance in the body, but the dogs can smell the chemicals that our bodies put off.
The other thing is that the dogs are trained to alert when this is happening, they will bark, run, get someone, do what ever they are trained to do.
Here is my part, I am going to make 3 pieces
The first will be a annunciator, if the person is having an attack, the dog will be trained to push a mushroom button on a station, this button will have a phone dialer and call for help also sound a audible alarm, page a pager, etc. this is easy I can handle this.
The second part (short story first)
My friend and one of his clients (a young boy) were in a restaurant having lunch…after lunch the boy asked him if he would watch his dog for a minute while he went to the bathroom, so the boy went into the bathroom and while he was in there he had a seizure, the boy ended up fine, but every minute can make a world of difference.
So what my friend wants/needs is something that the child could have on their waist, and send a wireless tone to alert the dog, they have training collars for dogs, this may be the way to go but I would like to look at all and any ideas.
The third part is also wireless, the child (or dog) would push the button on the child’s waits and it would send a signal to the annunciator, anyone have any wireless info? I have none nor any experience. The longer the range the better, my thoughts would be if they are outside playing and the receiver inside connected to the phone, I need to do a very strong wireless signal to the enclosure and it needs to be small (the sender) the receiver can be bigger.
Also it needs to be cheep, we would be doing this at cost, some of the families/clients just need the help and can not afford it. So we want to keep it reasonable.
I am also excited about the fact that something that I may make (help make) will help someone…how cool would that be, I can make machinery move, but to help someone...
Many thanks,
Mark
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