#cat

Petivity smart-litter — multi-cat analytics, built by Purina

“Petivity tells Joule from Boson with no microchip and no collar — just a scale and a model. That's the genuinely hard problem this category has dodged for years. The catch is who built it, and what the app wants to sell me on the way out.”

Litter-Robot multi-cat detection — Joule vs Boson

“Multi-cat attribution by weight works when the cats are weight-different. Litter-Robot's data plus a 30-line Python script give per-cat analytics today, despite the official app not supporting it.”

Boson arrives — the multi-cat engineering problem

“Multi-cat households break the single-cat assumption in every pet-IoT device. The 'which cat is using this?' question becomes the central engineering problem. Some devices have already solved it. Most haven't.”

Litter-Robot III Connect — the first pet IoT device with real medical telemetry

“This is the rare connected pet device where the data layer adds something the dumb device can't: visit frequency, duration, and weight are the exact signals a vet reads for UTIs, diabetes, and silent weight loss. The litter box sees them every single day. The yearly checkup sees them once.”

SureFlap Hub — finally, a connected cat door for Joule

“The real win isn't knowing Joule went outside — I knew that. It's that three-to-four trips a day is now a baseline, and the day it drops to one is a health flag I'd never have caught by eye. That's what telemetry does that direct observation can't.”

SureFlap microchip cat door — Joule's first pet IoT

“I keep calling it Joule's first IoT device. It isn't, really. There's no network in it anywhere — no Wi-Fi, no app, no cloud, no second device to talk to. It's a battery, a coil, and a latch that knows one number. That's the honest description, and it's the most interesting thing about it.”

Joule arrives — what a pet microchip actually is

“A microchip doesn't find a lost pet. It identifies a found one. No battery, no GPS, no range past a few centimeters — the chip just answers one question, and only when something else asks it.”