CES 2024: Invoxia Minitailz Uses AI to Make You A Better Pet Owner

Retail Price: $99.99

If you’ve been following us here at the Sypnotix, you’ll most likely be acquainted with the cameos our dogs Serena and Simone make in our videos. As dog owners, we take their safety and well being very seriously. That’s why we were highly intrigued when we came across Invoxia’s Minitailz tracker for pets at CES 2024 Unveiled. We spoke briefly with the company to learn more about the self-proclaimed “most advanced health and GPS tracker for dogs” in order to get a better understanding of what makes this a potentially revolutionary pet product.

An AI Approach

Awarded a CES 2024 best innovation in the AI category recognition, the Minitailz is actually on sale now and can be purchased for $99.99 on their website. That’s before the monthly subscription fee which we’ll discuss in a bit.

The Minitailz has three core functions: health monitoring, activity monitoring, and GPS location tracking. On the health side, the wearable keeps records of your pet’s resting heart rate, and breathing rate, much like how our human fitness trackers do. The activity side of things relies on AI to automatically detect daily assessments of activities like sleep, barking, and eating. We asked an Invoxia representative at CES what sensors were utilized on the collar to track these things and were told that the device actually has no sensors like those on a human wearable. All of the insights are specifically generated by AI processing.

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However, there is a GPS chip that enables location tracking through an LTE-M network to provide accurate position coverage of your animal’s location. There’s a phone app that connects to the collar and it charges through USB-C. I’m not exactly sure how AI can detect changes or abnormal heart activity without sensors, but I’m interested to see the data from a pet whenever we can get a unit for long term reviewing.

While I initially found the Minitailz to be a bit bulky in size in person, it comes in a unique form factor that will allow the device to clip onto just about any type of collar strap. Unlike a collar with a proprietary connection like the Fi Collars, which require you to purchase a new compatible collar, the Minitailz uses a ring that slips onto an existing collar your dog may already have. By using the ring to lodge the Minitailz down into place, the unit will securely click into place and should remain there while pressed against your pet’s neck.

As with most monitoring products with GPS capabilities, the Minitailz requires a recurring subscription to capitalize on the hardware and software. A one year subscription will cost $129.95, while a two year pact will be priced at $229.95.

There’s a lot of interesting features that make the Invoxia Minitailz interesting to me. Even after learning more about it at CES, I’m left with curiosity over the “how” of the technology. That makes this an enticing product for me to get my hands on and to potentially test this year. The more analytics I can gather on my pets the more responsible of an owner I can be.

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