JPH0785696B2 - Livestock monitoring equipment - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a livestock monitoring system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a manager has generally watched over the management of chickens, pigs and the like (presence or absence of food, presence or absence of death, illness, etc.) bred in livestock houses such as poultry houses.

[0003]

In recent years, the number of chickens to be housed in one poultry house has been increasing due to cost reduction of poultry farming, but the site area is limited, so that the living space for the chickens is inevitably increased. It extends upward.

In such a situation, when the manager looks around and directly monitors the chickens in the low position, it is difficult to monitor the chickens in the upper position, so that the monitoring time is long. In addition, there is a problem that it cannot be managed sufficiently. Furthermore, if there are many poultry houses on one farm, it will be more difficult to manage due to the current lack of managers.

Therefore, the present invention has the following advantages:
The purpose is to propose a monitoring device that can manage a large number of chickens with a small number of managers.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides cages of chickens and the like arranged in a back-to-back manner in multiple stages.
It is provided with a gate type moving carriage and a cage on the upper part of the cage row.
It is arranged so that it surrounds from the top, and it is a multi-tiered case.
Place it on the rails at the top and bottom of the
Supporting and arranging the surveillance camera of the breeding department on the moving carriage.
It is characterized by being placed .

[0007]

[0008]

[0009]

[0010]

[Operation] In the management building, the control panel controls the movement of the surveillance camera, and the condition of each breeding unit (cage unit) is monitored by watching the monitor TV image projected by the surveillance camera.

[0011]

EXAMPLES Next, examples in which the present invention is applied to chicken farming will be described. First, in FIGS. 1 to 4 , reference numeral 1 denotes a cage shelf, which is installed in the poultry house over a long distance in the ridge direction of the poultry house (front and back direction in the figure). The cage rack 1 is provided in a c-shape as shown in the drawing, and cages 2 and 2a, which are breeding units, are installed in rows on both sides of the cage rack 1.

[0012]

The cages 2 on one side are arranged in a plurality of rows (six rows in the figure) along the cage shelf 1, and a bait gutter 3 is provided on the front surface of each of them. The cage 2a on the other side is also 2
Similar to the cage row side of the above, they are arranged in a plurality of rows (6 rows in the figure).

Each cage 2, 2a is marked with a cage number on its front surface. Reference numeral 4 denotes a rail located at the center of both cage shelves 1 and fixed to the ceiling of the poultry house, and is arranged in the same direction as the installation direction of the cage shelves 1 (the direction of the ridge of the poultry house).

The reference numeral 5 designates a moving carriage, which has wheels 5 on the rails 4.
It is movably mounted by a. 6 is a moving carriage 5
With the arm provided above, the base end of the arm is rotatably provided on a rotary shaft 7 provided vertically on the movable carriage 5, and the tip portion thereof protrudes horizontally from the movable carriage 5, and the rotary shaft 7 is the center. It is designed to turn.

A drive mechanism 8 such as a motor for moving the carriage 5 and a motor for rotating the arm 6 is provided on the movable carriage 5. A camera holding rod 9 is provided at the tip of the arm 6.
Is installed vertically.

Reference numeral 10 denotes a surveillance camera provided on the camera holding rod 9. The surveillance cameras are the same number as the above-mentioned number of cages in the vertical direction (6 cages), are arranged at appropriate intervals in the vertical direction, and one surveillance camera is one. Each surveillance camera is set so as to project the individual cage 2.

As shown in FIG. 4, the control of the movement of the movable carriage 5 and the stop at an arbitrary position can be performed by a control panel 20 provided in a management building B which is separate from the poultry house A. It is wired.

Further, in the management building B, monitor televisions 21 corresponding to the respective surveillance cameras 10 are arranged in the same number as the surveillance cameras, and it is possible to know the position of the cage in each monitor television. Are arranged as follows. Note that the number of monitor televisions may be smaller than the number of surveillance cameras if the transmission device enables switching of images on the cameras.

For image transmission from the surveillance camera to the monitor television, for example, a trolley is provided at the transmission line end of each surveillance camera 10 and the trolley is equipped with this trolley, and a rail 4 is provided with a trolley duct through which the trolley can move. The video signal is transmitted from the trolley to the motor TV via the trolley duct. As such a video transmission device,
There is a trolleymation video transmitter manufactured by Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.

Next, the monitoring work will be described. Now, it is assumed that the movable carriage 5 is located at one end of the rail 4 and the camera holding frame 9 is in one cage row, for example, the row of the cage 2 on the right side in FIG. Further, each surveillance camera 10 is directed to each corresponding cage 2.

From this state, when the administrator moves the moving carriage 5 forward by the control panel 20 in the management ridge B to move the monitoring cameras in the row direction of the cage, the monitoring cameras 10 at each stage are moved to this. The monitor TV 21 in the management building B is sequentially projected to show the state of the corresponding cage portion of each stage.

When a suspicious chicken or bait in a cage is found on the monitor TV 21 while the moving carriage 5 is moving forward,
At that position, the moving carriage 5 is stopped to check the chicken for abnormalities and presence of food. If something is wrong, check the cage number displayed on the monitor TV, and the administrator goes directly to the cage to deal with it. If there is no abnormality, the forward movement is continued, and the monitoring of the side of the cage row 2 is completed.

Next, when the movable carriage 5 is positioned at the front end of the rail 4, the arm 6 is rotated to move the camera holding rod 9 to the front surface of the cage 3 on the opposite side. As a result, each surveillance camera 10 projects each cage 3 in the vertical direction in the row on the cage 3 side on the monitor television 21 in the same manner as described above.

Then, the moving carriage 5 is moved backward to monitor each cage 3 portion in the row on the cage 3 side. Figure 5 is placed the rail 4a to the side walls the inner surface of the chicken house, a 4a in the longitudinal direction of the house,
These are provided with movable carriages 5b, 5b so as to be movable, a traveling crane 5c is installed between the movable carriages 5b, 5b, and a swing device 5d is provided on the traveling crane 5c.
The alarm 6a is provided so as to rotate, and the camera holding frame 9a and the surveillance camera 10 similar to those in the above-described embodiment are provided at the tip of the arm 6a. The control and monitoring by the monitoring building is the same as above. Next will be described the actual施例of the present invention shown in FIGS.

[0026] 1 is a cage ledge, a cage 2,2a also arranged similarly. Reference numeral 11 denotes a gate-type movable carriage that is arranged so as to straddle both cage rows, and is placed by wheels 13 on rails 12 that are arranged in the cage row direction (front and back directions in the figure) and moves on the rails 12 in the front-rear direction. It is supposed to do. Reference numeral 14 is a drive unit composed of a motor or the like for moving the movable carriage 11 in the front-rear direction.

Reference numeral 15 denotes a lower rail, on which wheels 13a provided on the lower portion of the movable carriage 11 are placed. Reference numeral 16 denotes an elevating rail, which is positioned in front of each of the two or three rows of cages and is fixedly erected on the movable carriage 11 and obliquely arranged along the vertical arrangement of the cages.

Numeral 17a is a camera stand provided on both the elevating rails 16 and 16 so as to be able to ascend and descend, and a surveillance camera 17 is provided on this. The surveillance camera 17 is directed toward the cages 2 and 2a.

Reference numeral 18 is a drive motor for lifting and lowering, and a chain 21 is installed between a wheel 19 provided on a rotary shaft 18a thereof and a wheel 20 provided on an upper part of the lifting rail 16, and a part of the chain 21 is mounted on a camera stand 17a. The monitoring camera 17 is moved up and down by the forward and reverse rotation of the drive motor 18.

Reference numeral 22 is a positioning encoder for stopping the camera stand 17a at a predetermined position. Also in this embodiment, a management building B similar to the above is provided, and in the management building B,
A control panel for the drive motors 14 and 18 and two monitor televisions corresponding to the two monitor cameras 17 and 17 are installed.

Next, the monitoring work of this embodiment will be described. now,
It is assumed that the movable carriage 11 is at one end of the cage row and the surveillance camera 17 is directed to the cage at the bottom as shown in FIG.

In this state, the drive motor 18 for raising and lowering is operated upward by the control panel in the management building B. Then, the monitoring cameras 17 and 17 sequentially project the upper cage from the lower cage on the monitor camera.

When a suspicious cage is found on the monitor TV, the surveillance camera 17 is stopped to confirm. If there is no abnormality, it will move up. If there is no abnormality after the surveillance camera 17 has projected the uppermost cage, the moving carriage 11 is advanced to the position of the next cage in the row direction. Then, the surveillance camera 17 is lowered to monitor each cage on the monitor television.

If the monitoring camera 17 is located in the bottom cage and there is no abnormality, the moving carriage 11 is again moved forward to the next cage. Repeat this process to monitor all cages on the monitor TV.

Although the above-mentioned embodiment shows an example in which the invention is applied to a cage in a poultry house, the present invention can be applied to other animal breeding units.

[0036]

As described above, according to the present invention, the row of cages
A gantry-type moving carriage is hung downwards so as to surround the cage above
Since we supported and secured the space on the aisle, it is possible to drive unmanned vehicles.
There are no obstacles in the line, etc., and safe operation can be expected.

Further, since the surveillance cameras are moved to monitor each breeding unit, it is possible to monitor a large number of breeding units with one or several surveillance cameras, and to reduce the equipment cost. You can

Further, even when a large number of chicken cages are installed in the upper stage, the monitoring can be easily performed, and the feed amount and abnormalities of chickens can be detected at an early stage.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view showing a case where a camera is provided for each cage of each stage .

FIG. 2 is a front view of the main part.

FIG. 3 is a plan view of the main part.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a relationship between a barn and a management building.

FIG. 5 is a side view when two sets of moving carriages are used .

FIG. 6 is a side view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a front view of the main part.

[Explanation of symbols]

2, 2a ... Cage 4 ... Rail 5 ... Mobile cart
6 ... Arm 9 ... Camera holding frame 10 ... Surveillance camera
20 ... Control panel 21 ... Monitor TV

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A cage of chickens and the like arranged in a back-to-back manner in multiple stages.
It is provided with a gate type moving carriage and a cage on the upper part of the cage row.
It is arranged so that it surrounds from the top, and it is a multi-tiered case.
Place it on the rails at the top and bottom of the
Supporting and arranging the surveillance camera of the breeding department on the moving carriage.
A livestock monitoring device characterized by being placed .