Progress in livestock monitoring and precision livestock farming (PLF) is a requirement if modern... more Progress in livestock monitoring and precision livestock farming (PLF) is a requirement if modern agriculture is to keep pace with demands. This can be seen by trends in the academic research, the adoption of electronics in farming and emergence of livestock monitoring products.
This report aims to assess the current state of electronic livestock health monitoring and discuss a system to automatically monitor the condition of livestock.
Using an Arduino microcontroller system, an accelerometer and additive manufacturing techniques, a livestock collar was developed to monitor animal head movement. Testing suggests that the collar system will correctly classify animal behaviour as ‘grazing’ or ‘head up’. Grazing behaviour can be visualised live or as trends over time to aid the farmer in detection of ketosis.
With further work, the animal condition monitoring system proposed could be developed into a cost-effective product to aid in the detection of heat, ketosis lameness and other diseases in livestock.
Progress in livestock monitoring and precision livestock farming (PLF) is a requirement if modern... more Progress in livestock monitoring and precision livestock farming (PLF) is a requirement if modern agriculture is to keep pace with demands. This can be seen by trends in the academic research, the adoption of electronics in farming and emergence of livestock monitoring products.
This report aims to assess the current state of electronic livestock health monitoring and discuss a system to automatically monitor the condition of livestock.
Using an Arduino microcontroller system, an accelerometer and additive manufacturing techniques, a livestock collar was developed to monitor animal head movement. Testing suggests that the collar system will correctly classify animal behaviour as ‘grazing’ or ‘head up’. Grazing behaviour can be visualised live or as trends over time to aid the farmer in detection of ketosis.
With further work, the animal condition monitoring system proposed could be developed into a cost-effective product to aid in the detection of heat, ketosis lameness and other diseases in livestock.
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This report aims to assess the current state of electronic livestock health monitoring and discuss a system to automatically monitor the condition of livestock.
Using an Arduino microcontroller system, an accelerometer and additive manufacturing techniques, a livestock collar was developed to monitor animal head movement. Testing suggests that the collar system will correctly classify animal behaviour as ‘grazing’ or ‘head up’. Grazing behaviour can be visualised live or as trends over time to aid the farmer in detection of ketosis.
With further work, the animal condition monitoring system proposed could be developed into a cost-effective product to aid in the detection of heat, ketosis lameness and other diseases in livestock.
This report aims to assess the current state of electronic livestock health monitoring and discuss a system to automatically monitor the condition of livestock.
Using an Arduino microcontroller system, an accelerometer and additive manufacturing techniques, a livestock collar was developed to monitor animal head movement. Testing suggests that the collar system will correctly classify animal behaviour as ‘grazing’ or ‘head up’. Grazing behaviour can be visualised live or as trends over time to aid the farmer in detection of ketosis.
With further work, the animal condition monitoring system proposed could be developed into a cost-effective product to aid in the detection of heat, ketosis lameness and other diseases in livestock.