Study on the Livestock Activity Monitoring System for Livestock Estrus and Disease Forecasting

摘要

This paper proposes a livestock activity monitoring system that will allow the collection and monitoring of livestock activity information by using wireless sensor networks technology. In the proposed system, sensor nodes are attached to livestock to establish WSN and livestock activities are measured to collect and monitor the vital information of livestock, and the information on livestock activity change according to disease or estrus that is stored in the database is compared with the collected information on livestock activity to notify the producer in real-time of any values that exceed or fall short of the standard values. Therefore, the proposed system could diagnose estrus and disease conditions of livestock in early stages based on locations and activity information of livestock collected from wireless sensor nodes, and it is expected to improve productivity of livestock and to minimize damage of livestock diseases through it.