Dog walking without a leash—OpenMV detects and alerts within seconds

The issue of pets not being leashed remains a persistent management challenge in residential communities and parks—visible yet difficult to regulate. Manual inspections are prone to blind spots, while conventional surveillance systems struggle to automatically detect such nuanced behaviors. With OpenMV, the determination of whether a pet is leashed or not becomes directly identifiable by the system for the first time.

In public areas such as communities, parks, and pedestrian streets, pets not being leashed is a frequent and difficult-to-manage issue.

Manual inspections are prone to temporal and spatial blind spots, while conventional video surveillance—although capable of “seeing”—struggles to automatically determine the specific behavior of “leash usage,” resulting in insufficient enforcement. Leveraging SingTown’s OpenMV intelligent cameras, the system utilizes AI-powered visual capabilities to automatically identify pet leash status on-site, providing technical support for civilized pet ownership management.

The cameras are deployed at community entrances and exits, main passageways, or key areas to continuously capture footage.

OpenMV runs object detection algorithms on the edge device to simultaneously identify “humans” and “pets” in the image, and further analyzes small objects between them. By combining leash-line feature recognition with spatial relationship modeling, it determines whether the pet is under effective restraint.

When the system detects a scenario where “a person and their pet are walking together without a leash,” it can instantly output the result on the device side, trigger voice alerts on connected devices, or report the incident to the community management platform to enable prompt intervention.

OpenMV deploys complex visual recognition and decision-making logic directly on the camera edge device, offering advantages such as low power consumption, low latency, and no need for continuous internet connectivity—making it suitable for long-term operation scenarios like communities and parks, thereby upgrading civilized pet management from “passive guidance” to “active identification.”