KR101976519B1 - Apparatus for monitoring ruminant stomach of cattle and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for monitoring the health and disease management information of livestock using activity information by collecting motion data from a sensor device inserted into a rumen of a livestock and analyzing the activity of the livestock. An apparatus for monitoring the activity of a livestock using a sensor device inserted in a rumen of a livestock according to the present invention includes a data sensing unit for receiving sensed data including motion data of rumen from a sensor device; An activity analysis unit analyzing the intake activity, the rumination activity and the rest activity using the received sensing data; And a monitoring unit for storing analyzed activity information and monitoring and providing information on the health and disease of livestock for which activity information is not analyzed.

Description

[0001] Apparatus for monitoring ruminant stomach of cattle and method [

The present invention relates to a livestock monitoring technique, and more particularly, to a livestock monitoring technique that senses ruminal movement through a sensor device orally administered to livestock, analyzes various activities of the livestock with sensed motion data, And to a method and apparatus for monitoring health and disease in a patient.

In a conventional livestock management system based on a sensing network infrastructure, a sensor senses livestock data, a collection device collects sensing data, and an analysis device analyzes the health and disease state of the livestock based on the collected sensing data.

One of the most basic requirements for healthy livestock breeding is to monitor whether livestock are adequately ingesting feed and water and taking rest properly.

In particular, when livestock is a ruminant, the characteristic behavior of ruminating the food is one of the most important indicators of livestock health. There is a way to infer health and ingestion context through indirect indicators such as feces, fur, etc. as a means of monitoring the health of livestock. However, the use of analogy through indirect indices is only available to experienced experts, and the consistency of accuracy is weak because subjective judgment of experts is involved.

On the other hand, monitoring livestock through direct indicators obtained by directly checking livestock has the advantage of improving accuracy and monitoring of non-experts. Despite the importance of direct monitoring, it is practically impossible to observe animals individually as the number of heads per hill increases.

As a conventional technique, there is a system for analyzing the health state of livestock by orally administering a capsule type sensor device to a livestock. The system only collects the internal temperature of the livestock as biometric information through the sensor device. However, there is a limitation in evaluating and managing the health status of livestock only by the collected internal temperature. This is because it was impossible to determine what biological information of the livestock is due to the activity of the livestock. For example, it can not be determined whether the cause of the increase in the internal temperature is a problem of intake activity or a movement activity. Simply providing an increase in internal temperature as a healthcare problem is less reliable. An increase in the internal temperature may occur due to normal ingestion or movement. In other words, it is required to analyze the activity status of livestock that corresponds to the causal relationship in the change of biometric information such as the temperature change of the animal, and to evaluate and monitor the problem with reliability.

Korean Patent Publication No. 2014-0067195 (June 2014)

The present invention has been made in view of the above-described prior art, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a sensor device that is applied to a rumen of a livestock to sense movement data of rumen and movement of a livestock, And an object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and a method for performing the method.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the ruminal movement data of the livestock to analyze feed and water intake, rumination and rest activities, and monitor the health and disease of livestock using the analyzed activity information.

And to monitor the animal's estrous state by analyzing movement data of the animal's movement.

An apparatus for monitoring the activity of a livestock using a sensor device inserted in a rumen of a livestock by oral administration according to an aspect includes a data sensing unit for receiving sensing data including ruminal motion data from the sensor device; An activity analysis unit analyzing the intake activity, the rumination activity and the rest activity using the received sensing data; And a monitoring unit for storing the analyzed activity information and monitoring and providing information on the health and disease of the livestock according to the analysis of the activity information.

The data sensing unit receives the sensing data further including temperature and pH.

The activity analyzing unit analyzes the sensed data that the temperature is lowered to analyze as a negative intake activity, and counts the number of analyzed negative numbers.

The activity analyzing unit analyzes the motion data as a feed intake activity by confirming that the motion data is included in the range of the pre-stored intake movement pattern and the pH is lowered, and counts the analyzed intake time.

The activity analyzer analyzes the rheological activity as the rheumatic activity by confirming that the motion data is included in the range of the previously stored rheological movement pattern, increases the pH, and counts the analyzed rheumatic time.

The activity analyzer analyzes the motion data as a rest activity by checking that the motion data is included in the range of the rest motion pattern previously stored, and that the ph is included in the pre-stored normal ph pattern, and counts the analyzed rest time.

The monitoring unit generates the common information from the sensing data corresponding to the activity information for each livestock and pedigree in a pattern and then transmits the livestock information for which the sensing data beyond the range of each generated pattern lasts for a predetermined time, And provides it as required livestock information.

The monitoring unit provides the livestock information required for the disease examination when the number of negative times is less than the reference number in the livestock information for which health management is required, or when the intake time is less than the reference time.

The monitoring unit confirms that the pH is lowered below the reference value by the ingestion activity, and provides the livestock information required for disease diagnosis of the hyperacidosis to prevent death.

Further comprising a movement activity analyzing unit for counting whether or not the motion data exceeds a reference value every set period, confirming that the counting number exceeds the reference value for a set time, analyzing it as a movement activity, and counting the analyzed movement time do.

The monitoring unit provides livestock information in which an increase in the movement activity exceeding the reference value is confirmed, as livestock information in an estrus state.

According to another aspect, there is provided a method of monitoring the activity of a livestock using a sensor device inserted into a rumen of a livestock by oral administration, the method comprising: receiving and sensing sensed data including ruminal motion data from the sensor device; Analyzing the sensory activity, the rumination activity and the rest activity using the received sensing data; And storing the analyzed activity information, and monitoring and providing information on the health and disease of the livestock according to the analysis of the activity information.

According to one aspect of the present invention, biometric information sensed in livestock rumen is compared with past activity patterns, analyzed as livestock activity, and information on the health and disease of livestock is provided according to the analyzed activity, More detailed livestock activity information can be used to more accurately manage and monitor livestock health and disease than to manage livestock health.

Since the rumen movement data sensed in the present invention senses not only the rumen movement of the digestion activity but also the rumen movement due to the movement of the livestock, it is possible to accurately analyze the activity information of the cattle based on the cattle motion data, It is possible to manage the estrus state of the cow.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of the specification, illustrate preferred embodiments of the invention and, together with the description of the invention below, And should not be construed as interpretation.
1 is a schematic block diagram of a system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 2 is an illustration of the rumen of a livestock to which the sensor device of Figure 1 is administered orally.
3 is a schematic configuration diagram of the monitoring server of FIG.
4 is an exemplary view of motion sensing data received by the monitoring server of FIG.
5 is a schematic flow diagram of a method according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a processing flowchart of the monitoring server according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Prior to this, terms and words used in the present specification and claims should not be construed as limited to ordinary or dictionary terms, and the inventor should appropriately interpret the concepts of the terms appropriately It should be interpreted in accordance with the meaning and concept consistent with the technical idea of the present invention based on the principle that it can be defined. Therefore, the embodiments described in the present specification and the configurations shown in the drawings are only the most preferred first embodiment of the present invention, and not all of the technical ideas of the present invention are described. Therefore, It should be understood that various equivalents and modifications may be present.

1 is a schematic block diagram of a system 100 according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

The system 100 according to the first embodiment of the present invention includes a monitoring server 110, a transceiver 130, and a sensor device 150 that communicate through a wireless network.

The monitoring server 110 receives the animal data including the motion data sensed by the sensor device 150 orally administered at the rumen of the livestock through the transceiver 130. The monitoring server 110 analyzes the received livestock data to analyze activities such as ingestion, rumination, and rest of livestock. The monitoring server 110 generates a certain pattern based on the activity information based on the sensing data of each livestock and determines the health abnormality and disease occurrence of the livestock when the generated pattern information is out of the range. The monitoring server 110 monitors livestock data and health / disease data by livestock, pedigree, and housing using various types of big data determined for livestock, and provides monitored results.

The transceiver 130 is a wireless communication-based data intermediary device installed in at least one housing. The transceiver 130 uploads the sensing data received from the plurality of sensor devices 150 to the monitoring server 110.

Here, a gateway device may be further added to the transceiver 130 and the monitoring server 110. Assuming that a gateway device is installed every house, the sensing data of the transceiver 130 is uploaded to the monitoring server 110 through the gateway device.

The sensor device 150 is a wireless communication device that includes at least one sensor and is orally administered to a domestic animal and then placed in a rumen to sense the internal state of the rumen. The sensor device 150 senses livestock data such as movement (e.g., tilt, impact, acceleration, etc.), temperature and pH at the rumen of the livestock. The sensor device 150 transmits the sensed livestock data to the transceiver 130 every set period.

Figure 2 is an illustration of the rumen of a livestock where the sensor device 150 of Figure 1 is orally administered.

The rumen of a livestock is the place where the livestock swallowed food is located. Rumen refers to the rumen food being poured into the mouth again and then being eaten back from the mouth and swallowed again. The rumen of the livestock ranges from the first to the fourth. The first and second places serve as esophagus. If the livestock swallows the food, the food swallowed by the ruminating activity is poured into the mouth through the first place, and if the livestock is eaten again, the livestock is moved from the first to the fourth intestine.

Here, the sensor device 150 is located in the second upper position. When the sensor device 150 is orally administered, it is seated on the second position via the first position. The sensor device 150 seated on the second does not spill back into the mouth and is not moved to the third position.

3 is a schematic configuration diagram of the monitoring server 110 of FIG.

The monitoring server 110 may be implemented as a computer terminal including a processor, a memory (RAM), and a recording medium (disk) as a monitoring apparatus of the present invention. The monitoring server 110 loads the application stored in the recording medium into the memory and executes it through the processor. The application includes a data sensing unit 311, an activity analysis unit 313, and a monitoring unit 315.

The data sensing unit 311 receives the livestock data sensed by the sensor device 150 placed inside the rumen via the transceiver 130. Here, the received livestock data is sensing data including device (livestock) ID, motion (tilt, impact, acceleration, etc.) data, body temperature, and pH data. The motion data is affected by the stomach motion of the rumen, the movement of the livestock, and the like.

The activity analyzer 313 analyzes activities classified into intake, rumination and rest using the received sensing data.

First, ingestion activities are classified into negative consumption and feed intake. When the activity analyzing unit 313 confirms sensing data of which the temperature is lowered, the activity analyzing unit 313 analyzes the data as a negative consumption activity and counts the number of analyzed negative numbers. For reference, in the case of cattle, the rumen temperature is 39 to 40 degrees C and the temperature of the cow drinking water is about 20 degrees. The cows drink about 5 to 10 liters of water at one time, and the water rushes down the rumen temperature dramatically. The activity analyzer 313 determines that the motion data of the sensing data is included in the movement pattern of the pre-stored feed intake, and counts the time of the determined feed intake. Further, when the activity analyzing unit 313 determines that the ph is lowered in the state where the feed intake pattern is determined, it can accurately determine that the feed intake is active. The movement pattern will be described later with reference to Fig. When the feed (food) consumed in the mouth is passed to the rumen, the activity of the digestive microorganism becomes active and the pH becomes acidic due to the excrement of the activated microorganism. The acidic state is the start of the digestive activity to break down food.

Next, in the case of the rumination activity, the activity analyzer 313 analyzes the sensed motion data as rheumatic activity by confirming that the sensed movement data is included in the range of the ruminant movement pattern, increases the pH, do. When the feed is fed, the feed is fed to the empty rumen, so that the pH is lowered to become acidic. When the rumen starts, the second feed is vomit and the rumpled feed is swallowed first. Is repeated. At this time, the pH, which has been lowered to the highest acid state due to ingestion, returns to the pH of the normal state as the reed meal enters with the saliva. Here, the activity analyzer 313 can manage the intake amount information of the individual using the individual weight of the livestock, the counted feed intake time, and the ruminate time.

Next, in the case of the rest activity, the activity analyzing unit 313 analyzes the sensed motion data as a rest activity by confirming that the sensed ph data maintains the normal pH pattern, , And counts the break time analyzed.

The monitoring unit 315 stores information on the negative / feed intake activity, the rumination activity, and the rest activity based on the sensing data of the livestock. Here, the sensing data in which the activity information is not analyzed is data in which an abnormality is detected, and the monitoring unit 315 provides the data in which the abnormality is detected to the manager terminal 370 as the livestock information of the health management subject. If abnormality data exceeding the disease reference value is detected or data exceeding the disease reference value is detected during monitoring to the healthcare object, the monitoring unit 315 provides the information to the administrator terminal 370 as the animal information of the disease survey object.

Preferably, the monitoring unit 315 generates common information from the sensing data corresponding to each activity information for each livestock and breed, as pattern information, and stores the same in the DB, for monitoring health / disease management. The monitoring unit 315 analyzes patterns of common motion information (e.g., average information) for each activity information on healthy livestock. By the analysis process, unique pattern information is generated according to each criterion based on individual and pedigree-related criteria within a range constituted by an upper limit value and a lower limit value of the pattern. Then, the data sensed from the livestock in real time are compared with accumulated activity pattern and activity pattern of each kind accumulated in the past, and health information and disease management are carried out while the activity information is analyzed.

For example, the monitoring unit 315 assumes that the animals that fail to analyze the activity information are classified as a health care target as the sensing data is out of the range of the activity pattern in the process of comparing with the sensing data of the activity pattern. The monitoring unit 315 provides the cattle information that failed to analyze the activity information to the administrator terminal 370. The administrator terminal 370 may implement health care for the livestock to be managed as needed.

Here, if the number of negative counts in the domestic animal of the health care target is less than the reference number of past individuals, or if the consumption time is less than the past individual reference time, the monitoring unit 315 determines that the subject is subject to disease testing, And provides the determined animal information to the administrator terminal 370. Reducing the frequency of ingestion or reducing feed intake is an early sign of suspected livestock disease.

In addition, the monitoring unit 315 monitors and provides livestock information of the disease control target when the detected livestock data exceeds the disease standard value. For example, if the livestock starts to eat, the pH of the rumen is lowered. If the lowered pH is lowered below the reference value, it will be provided as livestock information, which requires a diagnosis of disease of the hyperacusiasis. And acidosis cause the death of livestock.

Here, the manager accesses the monitoring server 110 using the administrator terminal 370, inquires the animal information of the healthcare object outputted from the monitoring unit 315, and performs individual health check on the animal have. Of course, the administrator can set various pattern reference and pattern range information based on the pattern reference, compare the set pattern information and the livestock information, and retrieve the livestock information corresponding to the filtering criteria of the pattern range.

The monitoring in the present invention is based on analyzing the activity of negative / feed ingestion, rumination and rest based on the combination of sensed movement, temperature and pH data in the rumen and comparing the analyzed activity with the pattern to determine the effects of ingestion, It is possible to notify the manager of the problem in which part, or to provide management information for the inquiry request of the manager. Therefore, the present invention early diagnoses whether a problem occurs in the activity part of ingesting, ruminating, and resting livestock, and diagnoses the prognosis of the disease early. In particular, if the livestock is suffering from digestive diseases, endoscopy is performed as necessary to check for disease. The monitoring server 110 of the present invention analyzes the rumen activity information using the sensed data in the rumen, so that it is possible to save the number of times and cost of the endoscopic examination because of excellent health care and disease judgment related to the digestive system.

4 is an exemplary diagram of motion sensing data received by the monitoring server 110 of FIG.

The left graph of the motion sensing data shows the movement of the rumen when the animal feeds the feed. The right graph shows ruminal movement at rest. Comparing feed intake and resting pattern, it is observed that there is a relatively high amplitude and fast cycle pattern at the time of feed ingestion. For reference, in rumination, the process of pouring food in the intake pattern is accompanied, so that a section in which the movement temporarily stops during the pouring process occurs. The section where the movement stops and the movement section at the time of ingestion form a unique rumination pattern.

5 is a schematic flow diagram of a method according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

A wireless environment sensing network is established and the wireless data communication of the monitoring server 110, the transceiver 130 and the sensor device 150 is connected. The sensor device 150 is orally administered to the monitoring server 110 through the transceiver 130 after livestock is orally administered with the rumen.

The monitoring server 110 receives the livestock data sensed by the livestock sensor device 150 for each housing through the transceiver 130 (S511).

When livestock data are collected for each cattle stall and livestock, the monitoring server 110 analyzes the livestock intake activity and the rest activity using the movement data, temperature, and pH of the livestock data (S521). In the case of the negative intake activity, the monitoring server 110 analyzes the sensed data in which the temperature is lowered and the pH is increased, analyzes it as a negative intake activity, and counts the number of analyzed negative numbers (S523). In the case of the feed intake activity, the monitoring server 110 analyzes the movement sensing data as feed intake activity by confirming that the pH is included in the range of the movement pattern at the time of feeding the feed as shown in FIG. 4, (S525). In the case of the rumination activity, the monitoring server 110 analyzes the motion sensing data as a rumination activity by checking that the motion sensing data is included in the range of the movement pattern at the time of rumination, ascends the pH, and counts the analyzed rumination time (S527). The counted uptake time and the ruminate time can generate the ingestion information of the livestock individual. In the case of the rest activity, the monitoring server 110 analyzes the motion sensing data as a rest activity by confirming that the normal ph is maintained and is included in the range of the rest motion pattern of FIG. 4, and counts the rest time analyzed (S529).

When the activity information is analyzed, the monitoring server 110 monitors the animal information in which the analysis of the activity information is failed or the excessive duration is recorded in the analyzed activity information, classifies the animal information as a health care object, and provides it to the administrator terminal 370 (S531).

In the monitoring process, the monitoring server 110 classifies the livestock information in which the number of negative counts is less than the reference value in the livestock of the health care target or the consumption time is less than the reference value, and provides the classified livestock information to the administrator terminal 370 ). Of course, livestock with livestock data above the disease threshold are classified as livestock information for disease testing. An excessively low value of pH is required to test for diseases of hyperacidity.

In the process of health and disease management, the monitoring server 110 accumulates sensed data, which has been processed in one sensing period, into a pattern of activity information to generate a real-time pattern (S535).

6 is a processing flowchart of the monitoring server 620 according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

The monitoring server 620 according to the second embodiment of the present invention further includes a movement activity analyzing unit 623 and a monitoring unit 625 in the monitoring server 110 server of the first embodiment.

The movement activity analyzing unit 623 counts whether or not the motion data of the sensing data exceeds the reference value of the movement motion every set sampling period (e.g., 1 second). Of course, the sampling period is longer than the sensing period. When the animal moves, the rumen sensor device 150 senses greater motion than motion data at the time of ingestion. That is, if the motion value to be sensed in real time exceeds the movement reference value, the movement activity of the livestock can be analyzed. The movement activity analyzing unit 623 analyzes the movement count of the livestock when the number of times the counting has occurred for a set time (e.g., 10 minutes) exceeds the reference value, and counts the analyzed movement time (S623).

The monitoring unit 625 also compares the motion data with a pattern of movement activity. That is, if the motion data is not analyzed as activity information such as ingestion, rumination, rest, and movement, the monitoring unit 625 provides the information of the livestock as livestock information of the healthcare object.

Here, the monitoring unit 625 may further monitor the state of estrus of the livestock. The monitoring unit 625 confirms the movement activity that is increased more than the movement activity pattern up to the present and provides the information of the livestock as the information of the livestock determined as the estrous state when the duration of the movement activity is long (S625) . In other words, compared with the patterns of intake and rumination activities, there is no abnormality and it is not classified as a health care target, but livestock showing rapid increase in movement activity can be judged as estrous state. The increase of the movement activity is the state in which the amplitude of the movement becomes larger and the movement time becomes longer in the movement graph. The reference value for determining the estrus state for each individual and each breed can be compared with movement data of the movement.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments. It goes without saying that various modifications and variations are possible within the scope of equivalence of the scope.

100: System 110: Monitoring Server
130: transceiver 150: sensor device

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delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete A method of monitoring activity based sensing data collected from a second orally administered sensor device of a livestock,
Sensing and receiving sensed data including second-level motion data, temperature, and pH from the sensor device;
Analyzing the sensory activity, the rumination activity and the rest activity using the received sensing data; And
Storing the analyzed activity information, and monitoring and providing information on the health and disease of the livestock according to the analysis of the activity information,
The analyzing step may include analyzing the intake activity as a negative intake activity when the temperature is lowered in the received sensed data and the pH is increased as being divided into a negative intake and a feed intake and the motion data is stored in the received sensing data The motion data is compared with the ruminant movement pattern information stored in the received sensed data and included in the corresponding range and the pH is increased The motion data is compared with pre-stored resting movement pattern information in the received sensing data and analyzed as a resting activity when the pH is included in the corresponding range and the pH maintains the normal pH pattern. In this case, The movement pattern of activities and rest activities is the feed intake bow The movement pattern is relatively and is characterized in that the larger amplitude hour fast cycle,
The above-described analyzed intake, rumination and rest activities are compared with accumulated information of each individual and the pattern information of each breed, so that the administrator can be informed of any part of the intake activity, the rumination activity and the rest activity How to. delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete

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