Students from the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), as part of the Human-Centered Design course taught by Dr. Aikaterini Mavri, focused on developing a smart pet house.

The goal of the project was to design and create a sustainable pet care system that is environmentally conscious while enhancing the well-being of pets.

The students developed prototypes combining physical materials and digital components to improve pet comfort in extreme climates, whether in high or low temperatures, varying humidity levels, or other environmental conditions.

These prototypes function as an intelligent ecosystem that responds to a pet’s behavior and biometric data, as well as environmental factors. The system autonomously makes decisions and activates features such as cooling and heating systems, fans, water spraying, and sound alerts, among others.

The production and coordination of the project were managed by Kyriakos Filokratis, a student at the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts and a member of the team that created this pilot application.