In cat cafés centered on cat-human interaction, managers must both ensure the safety of their cats and enhance customer interaction experiences, yet they are often limited by the constraints of manual management. Under the traditional model, customers searching for cats and staff managing them rely entirely on visual checks and memory. This is not only inefficient but also prone to missing safety hazards. This approach often leads to compromised customer experiences and makes it difficult to implement refined store management. IoT solutions based on Bluetooth Energía baja (Bolle) beacons enable low-cost intelligent upgrades for large cat cafés, making operations more efficient and customer experiences more satisfying.

Difficulties

In a nearly 600㎡ two-story large-scale cat café that houses approximately 35 popular internet-famous cats of various breeds including Ragdoll, British Shorthair and Maine Coon, the store features multiple functional areas such as interaction zone, rest zone, feeding area, cat den area, viewing windowsill and second-floor cat tree zone. The store owner has recently been facing numerous operational challenges.

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Many customers do their research beforehand and come specifically to interact with certain popular cats, but once inside, they can only wander aimlessly around the entire store searching for them. Sometimes it takes more than ten minutes to find a cat, and many customers leave disappointed as a result. En segundo lugar, with 35 cats roaming across two floors, staff have to search floor by floor and zone by zone during feeding, cleaning and health check routines, resulting in extremely low efficiency during peak hours. There is also no way to continuously record cats’ activity patterns, making it difficult to detect health abnormalities early. Además, the store exit lacks an intelligent alert system, creating a risk of cats escaping when they occasionally approach the door, as manual supervision cannot provide 24/7 full-coverage monitoring.

The traditional model that relies solely on manual observation and memory-based recording is completely ineffective in large-scale scenarios with numerous cats. It not only impairs operational efficiency but also creates clear safety and service gaps, creating an urgent need for a lightweight, easy-to-deploy intelligent solution.

Solución

To solve the management difficulties of large cat cafés, this venue has implemented an intelligent location-based management solution based on compact and lightweight portable Bluetooth Energía baja (Bolle) balizas, enabling automated cat location tracking and management. The store owner equipped each cat with a lightweight custom collar, and using the faro’s built-in keyring hole, directly attached this small device to the collar. Installation is simple and does not cause any additional burden to the cats.

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As the cats move around, gateways strategically installed in key areas, including the cat den zone, feeding area, viewing windowsill, second-floor cat tree zone, and entrances/exits, continuously collect the broadcast signals emitted by the beacons. This allows staff to view the current location of each cat on an online platform that centrally receives data transmitted from the gateways, enabling them to quickly carry out feeding, cleaning, and health check tasks. Además, the platform system has been extended with the function of automatically recording each cat’s activity range and frequency, generating data curves of cat status to assist staff in assessing their mental state and health conditions.

Customers can view each cat’s name, breed, personality introduction, and real-time location (P.EJ., “Sunbathing on the first-floor viewing windowsill”, “Playing on the second-floor cat tree”, “Resting in the cat den zone”) through in-store digital guide screens or the cat café’s exclusive app. No more aimless searching, they can quickly find their favorite cats or “old friends” to interact with.

A geofence has been set up at the store exit. When a cat approaches this dangerous area, the system immediately sends an alert notification to staff devices, allowing them to intervene promptly and eliminating the risk of cat escape.

Key Product

FSC-BP108B is a small-size and portable Bluetooth 5.1 Low Energy tracking tag with a built-in keyring hole. With an ultra-lightweight 15g weight, it does not interfere with cats’ daily running, jumping and playing when attached to their collars, making it an ideal choice for live animal tracking scenarios such as pet monitoring. It supports multiple broadcast formats including ibejacón, Piedra remolina and AltBeacon, and features up to 6 years of battery life under default settings, a broadcast range of up to 400 meters in open areas, and IP67 water and dust resistance for exceptional durability. With its advantages of easy deployment, long battery life, long communication range and high adaptability, it is the preferred device for location tracking in large pet venues.