KR101493599B1 - System for monitoring cattle shed based on livestock`s quantity of motion - Google Patents

Abstract

A housing monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: one or more tags attached to livestock housed in a housing; At least one reader installed inside the housing and generating a position recognition signal when the cattle to which the tag is attached is located in a predetermined sensing range; And reading the current position information of the livestock according to the position recognition signal received from each of the readers at a predetermined cycle to calculate the momentum and the degree of liveliness of the livestock, And a livestock monitoring server for reading the state information of the livestock monitoring server.

Description

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

The present invention relates to a housing monitoring system, and more particularly, to a housing monitoring system that measures the current position of a livestock located in a barn at every cycle to calculate the momentum and unevenness of the livestock, And provides the management information to the administrator.

The countermeasures against the openness of the livestock industry such as the Korea-US FTA and the EU FTA are important to maximize the productivity of livestock farmers and to improve the quality and competitiveness of each species by controlling the specifications efficiently. According to various related indicators, over 50 farms have increased four times in the past 10 years and less than 20 farms have been reduced by more than half, and the enlargement of this livestock industry is accelerating due to the effect of the Korea - US FTA.

As the number of livestock breeding increases, the livestock management becomes more difficult due to the large size of livestock farmers, and many researches have been made on the information system to improve the efficiency of livestock management by applying IT technology to the livestock field to improve it. Through continuous monitoring of the housing, it is possible to quickly identify the state information of the livestock such as disease, estrus, and stress as well as housing environment information such as temperature and humidity, so that efficient management of livestock specifications can be achieved.

In the existing research, we developed a system to monitor the information such as temperature, humidity, illuminance, carbon dioxide and intrusion detection of housing by using RFID or wireless sensor network and to control the housing environment or check through CCTV image when abnormality occurs Most were. The livestock's momentum, such as the rapidly decreasing momentum of the diseased livestock and the rapidly increasing livestock of the estrous livestock, are important data that can be used to identify abnormal conditions such as disease, estrus, labor, death, stress, .

Although the anomaly condition of livestock is important monitoring information like temperature and humidity, it only limits the information on the housing environment in the existing system. have. If you can measure the amount of momentum that can be used as a basis for anomaly detection of livestock through regular monitoring using IT technology, it will be possible to quickly manage the abnormality and manage customized specifications based on the individual. It will be possible. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop an advanced housing monitoring system that can collect the animal environment information and the livestock 's momentum to quickly identify the abnormality of the livestock and utilize it to manage animal - centered scientific animal specifications.

Disclosure of Invention Technical Problem [8] Accordingly, the present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems occurring in the prior art, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a livestock- State information such as a state is read and provided to an administrator.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a housing monitoring system including: at least one tag attached to a housing accommodated in a housing; At least one reader installed inside the housing and generating a position recognition signal when the cattle to which the tag is attached is located in a predetermined sensing range; And reading the current position information of the livestock according to the position recognition signal received from each of the readers at a predetermined cycle to calculate the momentum and the degree of liveliness of the livestock, And a livestock monitoring server for reading the state information of the livestock monitoring server.

Also, the livestock monitoring server of the housing monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a housing area / reader table storing one or more housing areas and reader information corresponding to the housing areas, Reading a current location of the livestock into the storage area by inserting information on the reader into the storage area / reader table; A momentum calculator for calculating the momentum of the livestock by calculating the distance traveled by the livestock at each cycle through the storage area coordinates corresponding to each of the storage areas by reading the current position of the livestock; A unity calculator for calculating the number of other livestock co-located in the same housing area through the reading of the current position of each of the livestock and calculating the unbalance for each of the livestock for each cycle; The current position information read by the livestock position information reading unit, the momentum information and the unity information, the livestock identifier, and the sensing time information respectively calculated by the momentum calculating unit and the unstability calculating unit are recorded in correspondence with each other A livestock information database in which a daily exercise amount and a monthly average daily exercise amount for each livestock calculated by the exercise amount calculating unit and the unbalance calculating unit, respectively, are recorded; And a correction information table in which gender information and correction state information for each of the livestock housed in the housing are recorded, wherein the daily exercise amount of the livestock is compared with the monthly average daily exercise amount of the livestock, And a livestock state information reading unit for comparing state information of the livestock with the average daily livelihood of the livestock and then reading the state information of the livestock reflecting the gender information and the correction state information of the livestock.

Also, in the housing monitoring system according to the embodiment of the present invention, each housing area is set according to a tag recognizable range of each reader, each center coordinate is set in each housing area, The livestock location information reading unit reads the current position of the first livestock center as the center coordinates of the first housing area.

In addition, the animal status information reading unit of the housing monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention may be configured such that the daily activity amount is smaller than the value obtained by dividing the monthly average daily exercise amount by 2, and the daily activity degree is divided by the monthly average daily activity degree by 2 And if the animal is not in a fertilized state, it is read that the disease has occurred in the livestock.

In addition, the animal status information reading unit of the housing monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention may be configured such that the daily activity amount is larger than the value obtained by multiplying the monthly average exercise amount by 2, and the daily unconquered number is a value obtained by multiplying the monthly average daily unconqueness by 2 And in the case of a female that is not in a fertilized state but can be fertilized, the livestock is read as having an estrus state.

In addition, the animal status information reading unit of the housing monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention may be configured such that the daily activity amount is smaller than the value obtained by dividing the monthly average daily exercise amount by 2, and the daily activity degree is divided by the monthly average daily activity degree by 2 And when the period after the correction exceeds 9 months, the livestock is read as being in a delivery state.

Further, the animal status information reading unit of the housing monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention may be configured such that the daily activity amount is larger than a value obtained by multiplying the monthly average daily exercise amount by 2, and the daily activity degree is divided by 2 And if the animal is not in a fertilized state but can be fertilized, the livestock is read as being under stress.

The livestock state information reading unit of the housing monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention reads the livestock as a dead when the livelihood momentum does not occur at all for a predetermined time, The livestock is read as a stolen state in which the livestock has been moved outside the house.

According to the housing monitoring system of the present invention, the livestock can be managed more accurately by reading the state information of the livestock by reflecting not only the living body information of the livestock but also the momentum of the livestock in real time.

In addition, according to the housing monitoring system of the present invention, state information of a livestock can be read more accurately by reading the state information of the livestock reflecting not only biometric information of the livestock but also the degree of unbalance of the livestock Can be obtained.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a housing monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a reader installed in a housing and a sensing area and storage coordinates of the reader according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a diagram showing a storage area set by a reader and center coordinates of each area according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a livestock information table in which momentum information and unreliability information are recorded according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a diagram illustrating another example of a livestock information table in which momentum information and unreliability information are recorded according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a diagram illustrating another example of a livestock information table in which momentum information and unreliability information are recorded according to an embodiment of the present invention.
7 is a view showing an interface screen on which status information of a livestock to be read according to an embodiment of the present invention is displayed.
8 is a diagram illustrating an environment setting interface screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a livestock integrated information interface screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a housing monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The housing monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a livestock monitoring server 110, a first reader 121 to an Nth reader 122, a first tag 131 to an Mth tag 132.

The first reader 121 to the Nth reader 122 and the first tag 131 to the Mth tag 132 may be installed in the housing 100. The first tag 131 to the Mth tag 132 may be attached to the first livestock through the Mth livestock accommodated in the housing 100, respectively, and may be implemented as an RFID tag or the like. The first reader 121 to the Nth reader 122 may be installed for each designated node in the housing 100. The installation nodes of the first to N < th > readers 121 to 122 may be implemented in various ways according to the judgment of a person skilled in the art taking into consideration the tag sensing range of each reader. An installation method of the first reader 121 to the Nth reader 122 will be described with reference to Figs. 2 and 3. Fig.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a reader installed in a housing and a sensing area and storage coordinates of the reader according to an embodiment of the present invention.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the barn 100 may be mapped to plane coordinates that are divided into one or more grids and have coordinate values for each node. The grid-divided coordinate plane may be implemented in the same or similar manner as the coordinate plane mapping method of a general map. The livestock monitoring server 110 can maintain plane coordinate information on the housing 100.

One or more readers may be installed in the housing 110. In the present embodiment, the case where the first reader to the eighth reader are installed in the housing areas in the housing 110 will be described as an example. The "antenna " shown in FIG. 2 refers to an antenna included in a reader, and includes a housing area where the first to eighth antennas are located and a housing area where the first to eighth readers are located And therefore, although it is described as "antenna" in the drawing, it will be described in the present specification as "reader ".

In each zone of the housing 100, the first to eighth readers may be installed at each node in the housing 100 considering the respective sensing ranges. Each of the readers may be mapped to a cluster coordinate plane to have respective coordinate values. For example, the first reader may be mapped to the coordinates of (1, 0), the second reader to the coordinates of (9, 0), and the eighth reader to mapped to the coordinates of (5, 15) .

3 is a diagram showing a storage area set by a reader and center coordinates of each area according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The barn 100 may be divided into one or more barn areas. The housing area can be set by the sensing range of each reader. For example, as shown in FIG. 3, the in-store sensing range of the first reader may be a range including A1, A2, and A4, where the area A1 is a region where the tag sensing operation occurs only by the first reader An area A2 is an area where a tag sensing operation is generated by the first reader, a second reader, and a seventh reader, and an area A4 is an area where a tag sensing operation is performed by the first reader and the seventh reader.

In this manner, the housing 100 can be divided into one or more areas depending on the sensing operation range of each reader. The livestock monitoring server 110 can maintain the reader information corresponding to each of the housing areas. The animal monitoring server 110 can thereby detect the current position of the livestock.

For example, when the first tag attached to the first livestock is sensed only by the seventh reader and transmitted to the livestock monitoring server 110, the livestock monitoring server 110 transmits a sensing signal to the livestock monitoring server 110, Since it is only received from the reader, it can be determined that the first animal is located in the area A6. When the second tag attached to the second livestock is sensed by the fourth reader and the eighth reader, the livestock monitoring server 110 determines that the second livestock is located in the overlap region A12 of the fourth reader and the eighth reader It can be determined that it is located in the area.

At this time, the livestock monitoring server 110 can set the current location coordinates of the livestock as the center coordinates of the storage area. The center coordinates of each of the housing areas may be set as shown in Fig. For example, the center coordinates of the A1 area can be set to (1, 1), the center coordinates of the A2 area can be set to (5, 1.25), the center coordinates of the A3 area can be set to (9, 1) Therefore, in the above example, the current position of the first livestock located in the area A6 may be implemented with coordinates of (5, 5), and the current position of the second livestock located in the area A12 may be (7.5, 12.5) As shown in FIG.

1, the livestock monitoring server 110 includes a livestock location information reading unit 111, a momentum calculating unit 112, a unity calculating unit 113, a livestock information database 114, a livestock state information reading unit 115 A monitoring event control unit 116, an environment setting control unit 117, and a video image capturing control unit 118.

The livestock location information reading unit 111 maintains a storage area / reader table storing one or more storage areas and reader information corresponding to the storage areas, and stores information on the readers that generate the location recognition signals to the storage area / And reads the current position of the livestock into the storage area by substituting it into the reader table.

The momentum calculator 112 calculates the momentum of the livestock by calculating the distance traveled by the livestock for each period through the coordinates of the housing area corresponding to each housing area through reading the current position of the livestock. The untying calculator 113 calculates the number of other livestock co-located in the same housing area through the reading of the current position of the livestock, and calculates the unbalance for each livestock for each cycle. For example, when the number of livestock located in the first housing area at the first time point is three out of the total of ten livestock located in the housing, the three dogs located in the first housing area at the first time point The degree of unity for each of the livestock can be calculated to be 3/10.

The animal information database 114 may store the animal ID, the sensing time information, the current position information, the momentum information, and the redundancy information in association with each other. In addition, the momentum calculator 112 may calculate the daily exercise quantity and the monthly average daily exercise quantity for each livestock and record it in the animal information database 114. In addition, the unity calculator 113 can calculate daily crowds and monthly average daily crowds for each livestock and record it in the livestock information database 114.

Thus, in the animal information database 114, data on daily exercise amount / degree of exercise and information on daily average exercise amount / degree of exercise per month can be recorded. However, this is a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the livestock information database 114 may store information on daily exercise amount / degree of exercise and information on exercise / amount of exercise per week instead of monthly average exercise amount / , And data on a similar concept that can be utilized to read the state of a livestock such as information on the average daily momentum / mass, can be recorded in various ways.

4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a livestock information table in which momentum information and unreliability information are recorded according to an embodiment of the present invention. 5 is a diagram illustrating another example of a livestock information table in which momentum information and unreliability information are recorded according to an embodiment of the present invention. 6 is a diagram illustrating another example of a livestock information table in which momentum information and unreliability information are recorded according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 4, if the livestock monitoring server 110 receives the position recognition signals for the livestock 123, livestock 124, and livestock 125 from the first reader on October 16, 2012 at 09:57, 110 determines that the livestock 123, the livestock 124, and the livestock 125 are located in the housing area A1 at this time, sets the coordinates of the livestock 123, the livestock 124, and the livestock 125 to all (1, 1) As shown in FIG. At this time, since three of the total of 10 livestock are clustered in the A1 housing area, the unity of the livestock 123, the livestock 124, and the livestock 125 can all be set to 3/10. At this point, the momentum is not yet measured.

As shown in FIG. 5, if the livestock monitoring server 110 receives a position recognition signal for the livestock 123, the livestock 124, and the livestock 125 from the second reader on October 16, 2012 at 09:58, the livestock monitoring server 110 determines that the livestock 123, the livestock 124 and the livestock 125 are located in the housing area A3 at this point in time and sets the coordinates of the livestock 123, the livestock 124, and the livestock 125 to all (9, 1) As shown in FIG.

At this time, since three of 10 livestock are clustered in the A3 housing area, the unity of the livestock 123, the livestock 124, and the livestock 125 can all be set to 3/10. At this point, the momentum of the livestock 123, the domestic livestock 124, and the domestic livestock 125 can all be set to 8 according to the distance calculating formula between the A1 center coordinate and the A3 center coordinate.

6, the livestock monitoring server 110 receives the position recognition signals for the livestock 123 and livestock 125 from the fourth reader, and transmits the position recognition signals for the livestock 123 and livestock 125 from the third reader and the seventh reader When receiving the position recognition signal for the animal 124, the animal monitoring server 110 can determine that the animal 123 and the animal 125 are located in the housing area A10 and the animal 124 is located in the housing area A7. At this time, the coordinates of the livestock 123 and the livestock 125 can be recorded as (8.8, 10), and the coordinates of the livestock 124 can be recorded as (2.5, 7.5).

Therefore, at this point, the momentum of the livestock 123 and the livestock 125 can be calculated and recorded as 9, and the momentum of the livestock 124 can be calculated and recorded as 9.19. Since the livestock 123 and the livestock 125 are clustered in the housing area A10 and only the livestock 124 is located in the housing area A7, the unity of the livestock 123 and the livestock 125 is set to 2/10 and the unity of the livestock 124 is set to 1/10 And recorded.

The animal status information reading unit 115 can maintain a correction information table in which gender information and correction status information about each livestock accommodated in the barn 100 are recorded. The livestock state information reading unit 115 compares the daily motion amount of the livestock with the monthly average daily motion amount of the livestock, compares the daily irritability of the livestock with the monthly average daily swarms of the livestock, and reads out the state information on the livestock .

For example, the animal state information reading unit 115 may determine that the daily exercise quantity is smaller than the value obtained by dividing the monthly average daily exercise quantity by 2, the daily dryness is smaller than the value obtained by dividing the monthly average daily dryness by 2, , It can be interpreted that the disease has occurred to the livestock. That is, if the livestock other than the amendment state exhibits a much smaller amount of exercise than the normal livestock, and the livestock state information reading unit 115 does not act in tandem with other livestock, the livestock status information reading unit 115 reads the livestock as a disease, .

The animal status information reading unit 115 reads the animal status information from the animal status information reading unit 115. The animal status information reading unit 115 reads the animal status information from the animal status information reading unit 115, , The livestock can be read as having an estrus state. In other words, if the livestock of the female, which is not in a fertilized state but can be fertilized, exhibits a much larger amount of momentum than that of a normal livestock, and the livestock state information reading unit 115 is very active with other livestock, , And can notify the manager of the information.

The animal state information reading unit 115 reads the animal state information from the animal state information reading unit 115 in such a manner that the daily motion amount is smaller than the value obtained by dividing the monthly average daily amount of motion by 2 and the daily degree of irritation is smaller than the value obtained by dividing the monthly average irritability by 2, , The livestock can be interpreted as being in a state of delivery. In other words, if the livestock whose fertilization status is more than 9 months do not go near to other livestock, and the amount of activity is also much smaller than usual, the livestock will be read as soon as delivery is scheduled, and information about the livestock can be notified to the administrator.

The animal state information reading unit 115 reads the animal state information from the animal state information reading unit 115. The animal state information reading unit 115 reads the animal state information from the animal state information reading unit 115, If it is not possible, the livestock can be interpreted as being under stress. In other words, if the livestock of the males that are not in a modified state are actively moving but do not move with other livestock but exercise alone, the livestock may be read as having a great stress, .

The livestock state information reading unit 115 reads out the livestock as a dead when the livelihood momentum does not occur at all for a predetermined time, and when the livestock position is not recognized for a predetermined time, It can be read as a stolen state.

The monitoring event control unit 116 can perform the event operation set according to the state information of the animal read by the animal state information reading unit 115. [ For example, when the first animal is read as having a disease state, a message transmission event is transmitted from the administrator terminal set according to the disease state information, the in-house camera 150 is controlled via the image capture control unit 118, An event for capturing and photographing livestock and storing the event, an event for transmitting the image to the administrator terminal, an event for transmitting an urgent message to the anti-virus server, and the like. 7 to 9, the environment setting controller 117 can receive the internal environment setting values from the administrator through the user interface and can control the environment sensor 140. Information about the domestic animals in the housing Can be provided to the administrator through a screen in which various graphics and text are combined.

The housing monitoring method according to the present invention may be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed through various computer means and recorded in a computer-readable medium. The computer-readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, and the like, alone or in combination. The program instructions recorded on the medium may be those specially designed and constructed for the present invention or may be available to those skilled in the art of computer software. Examples of computer-readable media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tape; optical media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs; magnetic media such as floppy disks; Magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. The medium may be a transmission medium such as an optical or metal line, a wave guide, or the like, including a carrier wave for transmitting a signal designating a program command, a data structure, or the like. Examples of program instructions include machine language code such as those produced by a compiler, as well as high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware devices described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.

While the invention has been shown and described with reference to certain preferred embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. This is possible.

Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined by the equivalents of the claims, as well as the claims.

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110: Livestock Monitoring Server
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114: Livestock information database
115: Livestock status information reading unit
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140: Housing environmental sensor
150: camera

Claims (8)

One or more tags attached to livestock housed in the housing;
At least one reader installed in the housing and generating a position recognition signal when the cattle to which the tag is attached is located in a predetermined sensing range; And
Reader / writer table in which reader / writer information corresponding to one or more storage areas and reader / writer information corresponding to each of the storage areas is recorded, and substitutes information on a reader for generating a location recognition signal into the storage area / reader table, A livestock location information reading unit for reading a location into the housing area; A momentum calculator for calculating the momentum of the livestock by calculating the distance traveled by the livestock at each cycle through the storage area coordinates corresponding to each of the storage areas by reading the current position of the livestock; A unity calculator for calculating the number of other livestock co-located in the same housing area through the reading of the current position of each of the livestock and calculating the unbalance for each of the livestock for each cycle; The current position information read by the livestock position information reading unit, the momentum information and the unity information, the livestock identifier, and the sensing time information respectively calculated by the momentum calculating unit and the unstability calculating unit are recorded in correspondence with each other A livestock information database in which a daily exercise amount and a monthly average daily exercise amount for each livestock calculated by the exercise amount calculating unit and the unbalance calculating unit, respectively, are recorded; And a correction information table in which gender information and correction state information for each of the livestock housed in the housing are recorded, wherein the daily exercise amount of the livestock is compared with the monthly average daily exercise amount of the livestock, And a livestock state information reading unit for reading the livestock state information on the basis of the gender information and the correction status information of the livestock after comparing with the monthly average daily livelihoods of the livestock,
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Wherein the animal condition information reading unit reads the animal condition information when the daily exercise amount is smaller than the value obtained by dividing the average daily exercise amount by 2 and the daily play group is smaller than the value obtained by dividing the average daily play group by 2, And if the daily exercise quantity is greater than a value obtained by multiplying the monthly average daily exercise quantity by 2 and the daily unity is greater than a value obtained by multiplying the monthly average daily unequal power by 2, When the daily exercise amount is smaller than the value obtained by dividing the monthly average daily exercise amount by 2 and the daily play group is smaller than the value obtained by dividing the average daily play group by 2 and the period after the correction exceeds 9 months The daily motion amount is calculated by multiplying the monthly average daily motion amount by 2 And said daily crowding is less than the value obtained by dividing the monthly average daily crowding by 2, and if it is not a fertilized but not fertile female, said livestock is being stressed system. delete The method according to claim 1,
Wherein each of the storage areas is set according to a tag recognizable range of each reader, each center coordinate is set in each of the storage areas, and when the first livestock is located in the first storage area, And reads the current position of the first animal axis as the center coordinate of the first housing area. delete delete delete delete The method according to claim 1,
The livestock state information reading unit reads the livestock as death if the livelihood momentum does not occur at all for a predetermined time and if the livestock position is not recognized for a predetermined time, And reading out that it is stolen.

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