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Digital Support for Farm Animal Health with Precision Livestock Farming
From Science to Solution
Prof Tomas Norton
KU Leuven
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Precision Livestock Farming?
Techniques and technologies to support farmers in managing livestock production.
Soundtalks SOMO®
Fancom eYeNamic®
Since 1991
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What can it bring?
Value to the animal
• ↑ health and welfare
Value to the farmer
• ↑profitability
• ↓environmental impact
Value to the consumer
• quality of the product
Value to society
• transparent farming
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Respiratory health monitor for fattening pigs Scientific background
• Research started at KULeuven from 1996 – 2011
5 PhDs on pig cough and > 30 journal publications
• 2 Patents applications pending
Importance of respiratory health issues in pigs
Negative impact on:
➤ Average daily weight gain
➤ Feed conversion rate
Cost of respiratory diseases can be more than 10€ /pig.
Challenges
• Complex, multifactorial, dynamic nature of respiratory diseases in pigs
• Time and money consuming farm management
• Diagnostics: Expensive. When? What?
• Lack of objective assessment of treatments
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Target
Continuously and Objectively monitor the health and welfare
of pigs through the analysis of sound
24h/7d
Animals treated
Pigs ill again
Animals
treated
Animals again ill
Pigs ill upon entering
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Results
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HARDWARE
One monitor contains multiple sensors and calculating unit
Design is small and elegant
Permanent device for in the barn
Gateway installed on the site for internet connection
WiFi communication between devices and gateway
Multiple device visual in app
SOMO GEN 2
Acoustic sensor
Temperature Sensor
Relative Humidity
Sensor
Light sensor
Automated Wi-Fi Mesh
Bluetooth Capability
Monitor
Gateway
APP
• Live monitoring of sensor output • Coughing, temperature, relative humidity, light intensity
• Overview of different sites, buildings and rooms
• Personalized and intelligent early warning • Notification via SMS, mail or push notifications via app
• Making of personal notes
• Sharing of data and notes with contacts
• Reporting via printable PDF, Excel, CSV
Web app
Mobile app
https://projects.invisionapp.com/share/6WL2U2XDP3T#/screens/303455930_Login_-_Mobile
https://projects.invisionapp.com/share/ZML2U3Y2947#/screens/303460955_Login_-_Web
Current Solution
Value creation
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Up to 2 weeks earlier than conventional methods
Objective way for early disease detection
SIV, PRRSV, M.Hyo, PCV, air washer, temperature, …
Both respiratory as well as management issues
Early alert to farmer and veterinary, reduction of health
costs
Faster intervention
Being there without being there
Peace of mind
Scalable Service
Automated analysis of pig sounds
Climate sensors indicate cause
Algorithms Sound & Climate
Useful Information
…for one specific farm
… for one specific customer
while maintaining a scalable model
Customer Intimacy
Excellent service in Scalable model
Remote monitoring
IP protection
Cloud Based Solution Hardware
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Objective measurement of
a herd of fattening pigs
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What else is possible today? Integrated monitoring of health, welfare and productivity
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Threshol
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Drink
nipple
∆ T = duration of the visit
Monitoring drinker visits: Fancom BV
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Aggression monitor: Umil,
TIHO, Fancom BV
Weight estimation: Fancom BV, Agrifirm
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Feed Farmer Slaughter Retailer
Con-
sumer
PLF Service Provider
(funding, set-up, service, data)
Breeding Vets. Others Tech. Prov.
What is the PLF Business?
Cost of PLF investment & operation shared along the value creation chain by payment for access to data pool
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Thank you!
For more information you can check our website:
http://www.m3-biores.be
Contact: [email protected]