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Introduction Have you ever wondered how your pet's GPS tracker knows whether they're running, resting, or digging in the backyard? Or why sometimes the tracker seems to lose accuracy after a few weeks of use? The secret lies in a sophisticated component called an Inertial Measurement
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The Problem That Started Everything At Hoomanely, we set out to build connected pet products that could genuinely understand pet behavior and health through multiple sensors working together. Trackers needed to monitor activity, detect vocalizations, track location, and communicate over long distances. Smart bowls needed to measure food consumption with
Hardware
When you're holding a PCB prototype, it's easy to focus on the exciting parts—the microcontroller, the sensors, the wireless module. But here's what I've learned at Hoomanely: the humble connector is often the difference between a product that lasts 5 years
AI
Intro Devices in the field continuously send motion, temperature, and power data. In connected pet‑tech products like those at Hoomanely, spotting unusual patterns right on the device can prevent bigger issues - like a dog’s collar overheating or a tracker battery draining too quickly. Local anomaly detection lets
AI
How AI models are shrinking without losing their minds. Many of our real-time models - from detecting dog motion to analyzing eating patterns - run directly on embedded systems. At Hoomanely, we combine lightweight CNNs (like MobileNet) with quantization and pruning to achieve low-latency inference without sacrificing reliability. The ability
Software
In digital platforms where content relevance drives engagement, location-based geofencing plays a key role in connecting users with contextually meaningful information. It helps ensure that users see posts that are local, timely, and personally relevant—whether it is a nearby dog park meet-up, a local pet store promotion, or a
Hardware
Building a tracker with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, LoRa, and GPS doesn’t have to mean living on a charger. In this write-up, I’ll walk through the exact moves that took our ESP32-S3 design from “dies by dinner” to “runs for weeks”—from hunting down sneaky “always-on” leaks to letting each
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Eliminate server upload bottlenecks with presigned URLs, enable massive file uploads via multipart, and automate storage archival for significant ongoing savings. Context: The Challenge of Media Processing at Scale Building a media-heavy application requires handling large files videos, images, documents efficiently without bottlenecking your application servers. Whether you're
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A Guide to CAN Controllers, Transceivers, and Bus Configuration Introduction When our team at Hoomanely began developing iot devices for building a pet environment platform, we faced a critical challenge: transmitting high-resolution sensor data between multiple ECUs with microsecond-level timing precision were We needed CAN FD. But here's
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At Hoomanely Inc., we move beyond theoretical limits to ensure our connected products deliver predictable, robust performance in the field. Our goal for the IoT sensor network was to maximize the 10km potential of LoRa. By establishing and rigorously enforcing three core RF design principles from the initial PCB layout,