Smart agriculture

Early Detection of Livestock Diseases by Using Wearable Wireless Sensors

Koji Yoshioka, Osamu Mikami, Shogo Higaki, Tomomi Ozawa
ABSTRACT The scale of animal farming in Japan has changed significantly over recent decades, with a move towards larger, more intensive, primarily due to market pressures. This change has resulted in demand for technologies that can reduce costs and labor inputs while increasing farm productivity...
Country: Japan Topic: Smart agriculture
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Detection and Prediction of Risk Factors Associated with Production Losses Using Production Records on Commercial Pig Farms

Yosuke Sasaki
ABSTRACT Japanese pork production remained flat in recent years, but number of pig farms have decreased and farm size in each farm has increased. In order to improve their production performance, many farms keep their records such as mating, farrowing, and weaning events of sows and mortality or...
Country: Japan Topic: Smart agriculture
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Measurement of Reticuloruminal Function in Cattle Using a Bolus-Type Wireless Sensor

Shozo Arai, L. Mattias Andersson
ABSTRACT The reticuloruminal function is central to digestive efficiency in cattle. Monitoring the rumen condition in cattle is important because a dysfunctional rumen system may cause death. Subacute ruminal acidosis (SARA) is a typical disease in cattle, characterized by repeated periods of...
Country: Others Topic: Smart agriculture
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Low-cost IoT-based System to Monitor Cows’ Behavior

Phung Cong Phi Khanh, Tran Duc-Nghia, Tran Duc-Tan
ABSTRACT Cow farming is very popular in Vietnam. In fact, 95% of dairy cows in the country have been scattered raised in small barns. Thanks to the application of modern techniques, the management of barns gets easier and easier. Cow monitoring is necessary to help farmers take a comprehensive...
Country: Vietnam Topic: Smart agriculture
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Egg Production Recording System of Taiwan Native Chicken

Der-Yuh Lin, Ming-Che Wu, Shwu-Jen Tzeng, Yung-Yu Lai
ABSTRACT To save the labor cost of chicken egg production records input and reduce the probability of incorrect data input, we use the existing 134.2kHz full-duplex animal electronic tag and 125kHz electronic tag in Asia, combined with the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) multi-frequency...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Smart agriculture
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