Leashless dog walking detected instantly by OpenMV with alarm

Unleashed pets pose a recurring management challenge in communities and parks—visible yet difficult to regulate. Manual inspections often leave blind spots, while conventional surveillance systems struggle to automatically detect nuanced behaviors. With OpenMV, the system can now directly identify whether a pet is on a leash.

In public areas such as communities, parks, and pedestrian streets, pets being off-leash 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 camera, the system utilizes AI vision capabilities to automatically identify pet leash status on-site, providing technical support for civilized pet ownership management.

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

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

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 rapid 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 requirement for continuous internet connectivity—making it ideal for long-term operation in community areas, parks, and similar settings, thereby upgrading civilized pet management from “passive persuasion” to “proactive identification.”