Brian Larson hopes to see a decrease in the number of pets perishing as a result of being left in overheated vehicles.
"I think most pet owners know that vehicles can get very hot, but they just don't realize how fast it happens," Larson said.
That's why the 13-year-old science whiz from Hanna, about 300 kilometres southeast of Edmonton, is spending his summer collecting data to develop an alarm system that will alert pet owners when temperatures get too hot for their furry friends.
With the help of NAIT's electronics engineering technology department, Larson said he wants to develop a prototype that he can eventually bring to market.
He described the alarm system as a little box that would be installed in the vehicle to record temperature and humidity. When it reaches levels deemed dangerous for a pet, the system would send a frequency to a device similar to a keychain fob and set off an alarm.
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