Know which dog. Know where. Know when.
Most wellness apps break the moment you have two dogs. Smart Yard turns the cameras you already use into a private layer just for you — telling your dogs apart, mapping where each one goes, and giving every scoop per-dog meaning. You own the footage. We never see it.
“The dogs had soft stool this week” tells you nothing actionable. Which dog. How often. Where. That's the whole game — and it's the part every other product gets wrong.
~40% of dog households have two or more dogs. Every existing wellness app, monitor, and vet intake form fails the moment you have to attribute. Smart Yard runs on-device, on hardware you own, with footage that never leaves your network — so you finally get answers without trading away privacy to get them.
One layer. Four wedges.
Cameras observe everything that happens in the yard — passively, on-device, on hardware you own. Out of that comes four concrete wins, in roughly the order most owners feel them. Multi-dog ID is the moat. Behavior signals ride on top.
Tell your dogs apart.
Coat, size, gait signature, tail carriage. The model running on your camera recognizes which dog is which — at the gate, at the bowl, at the go-spot. That single capability flips every other feature: per-dog 3C trends, per-dog frequency, per-dog conversations with your vet.
Map every go-spot.
Every pile, timestamped and pinned. Your scooper arrives knowing where to look — no whole-yard sweep. DIY owners get a pickup map every morning. Lawn-care planning gets surgical: rotate rest zones before the grass burns.
Make every sample matter.
Without ID, six piles in a 2-dog yard get one blended 3C reading — useless. With ID, each pile is tied to a specific dog, a specific timestamp, a specific GPS point. Trends become signal, not statistical mush.
Catch what dogs hide.
Pose models running on the camera track stride symmetry, sit-to-stand speed, sleep duration, and pacing. A subtle limp the human eye misses for weeks shows up as a 7% asymmetry on day three. Behavior changes weeks before lab work catches anything.
Smart Yard isn't one feature. It's a different yard.
The same camera layer means different things to different households. Here's where it shows up first for each.
Multi-dog homes
Two-dog (or three) households finally get per-dog data. Bella's GI is fine. Max needs a vet visit. The data tells you which.
Senior dogs
Behavior shifts show up weeks before labs catch anything. Stride asymmetry, slower sit-to-stand, more shade-seeking — all flagged automatically.
DIY pickup households
Skip the dusk yard sweep. Open the app, see exactly where the piles are. 3-minute job instead of fifteen.
InsightScoop service customers
Faster visits → lower cost. Scoopers arrive with the heatmap loaded; no whole-yard sweeps. Disputes resolve themselves with a timestamp.
Lawn-conscious owners
The heatmap is a treatment prescription. Rotate go-zones, pre-empt nitrogen burn, target lime application. Pairs natively with Once Upon a Lawn.
Vet partners
Anomaly summaries arrive in the patient chart, not buried in screenshots. “Bella's stride changed Tuesday” — specific, dated, model-confidence scored.
One to three cameras. Yours.
Pilot homes get up to three weatherproof cameras placed wherever your yard needs them — gate-line, deck, fence corners. They run on a single power feed, only stream when motion is detected, and process video on-device.
- 4MP optical · IR-capable · 14fpsCalibrated dawn-to-dusk. IR for nighttime. No audio capture, ever.
- On-device pose & ID modelsFrames are processed on the camera. Only events leave the yard — never raw video.
- WiFi-only · No cloud videoIf WiFi drops, cameras buffer 6 hours. We never store raw footage on our servers — only metadata.
- You own the footageEvery clip lives on your local storage. We see anomaly scores. You see everything.
Where we are. Where we're going.
No vapor. We're being honest about what's live, what's in our hands, and what's still ahead.
3C scoop service is live.
Twin Cities scooping with stool-recap delivery. The data foundation Smart Yard sits on top of.
Internal alpha · multi-dog ID training.
Cameras at four founder households (incl. Kiara). Building the dog-ID model on real Minnesota yards. Tuning gait baselines and reducing false positives.
In progress50-home pilot launches.
Free hardware + service for the first 50 Twin Cities households. Existing scoop customers get priority. Per-dog 3C, go-spot heatmap, behavior digests, vet-shareable PDF.
Vet partner pilot.
Two Twin Cities vet practices receive aggregated anomaly reports for opted-in patients. Goal: prove the early-detection thesis with real outcomes.
Public beta.
Open to all InsightScoop service customers, with a paid hardware option for non-service households.
50 dogs. Free hardware.
Free cameras, free install, free service for 6 months. In exchange we ask for permission to use the anomaly data — never video — to train the model.
How we handle the cameras.
Video stays in your yard. Pose and dog-ID models run on-device. Only events (“Bella · 96% · stride asymmetry detected”) leave the camera. We never receive raw footage.
You can pause any time. Tap once in the app for a guest visit, contractor day, or any reason. Cameras have a physical privacy shutter you can toggle by hand.
You own the data. Every clip lives on your local storage; export or delete it whenever. Smart Yard is wellness, not diagnosis — it tells you when to ask your vet a better question, not what's wrong.