vitality meter for anonymous animal health monitoring in domesticated farm animal groups

摘要

Vitality sensing electronic system and method for monitoring the health of a livestock group, comprising: a vitality sensing unit attached to a sample of individual sentinels in a group of livestock, the unit configured to measure a plurality of physiological and behavioral parameters indicative of the sentinel's health condition, location means configured to locate each of the individual sentinels and a computing and storage unit communicating with the vitality sensing unit adapted to determine the group's health based on the sample of measured parameters.