KR20170046020A - Barn management system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a barn management system for managing a vehicle entering and existing from a barn, early treating livestock diseases in the barn, and providing management information of the barn to a livestock raiser. To this end, the barn management system of the present invention comprises: a first photographing device disposed at a barn accessway, and photographing an image of an entrance and exist vehicle; a second photographing device disposed in the barn, and photographing a thermal image of livestock; and an information extracting device for extracting number information of the entrance and exist vehicle from the image photographed by the first camera unit, and extracting body heat information of the livestock from the thermal image photographed by the second camera unit. The spread of livestock infectious diseases is prevented, and livestock diseases are treated in the early stage. Also, livestock management information can be provided to a livestock non-expert.

Description

{Barn management system}

The present invention relates to a housing management system for managing a vehicle entering and exiting a housing, treating a domestic disease in the housing prematurely, and providing housing management information to a livestock owner.

Generally, when a livestock epidemic occurs, a large number of infected livestock are mass-slaughtered, causing enormous damage to the livestock farms. As a result, the price of livestock products has risen sharply, causing many social and economic problems.

On the other hand, there has been a rapid increase in the number of farmers returning from urban areas to rural areas in recent years. Many of these farmers, especially non-specialists in the livestock industry, are suffering from economic losses due to lack of rapid response to diseases such as livestock. As described above, there is a problem that the prevention of spread of livestock diseases and the livestock management of the farmers are inexperienced, resulting in a lot of economic losses.

In view of such problems, Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2011-0122374 discloses a housing management information system and an operation method thereof. A housing management information system and a method for operating the housing management information system include a housing management unit for transmitting data according to a housing management process to a management server in real time; A management server for analyzing the management data of the barn received from the barn management unit and converting the management data into a database and providing a barn management history in real time according to a request of the buyer; And a management program connected to the management server through a network to provide a management history of the housing based on the management history analyzed by the management server, It is possible to automatically manage and operate the management history generated in the management process in the housing providing the livestock product by including the operation terminal for giving the unique code.

The conventional housing management information system and its operating method configured as described above can provide a variety of animal husbandry information to the livestock farmer, but it can not provide a method for quickly preparing for the spread of infectious diseases in the case of livestock infectious disease.

Korea Patent Publication No. 2011-0122374

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in order to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, and an object of the present invention is to provide a livestock management system and a livestock management system, System.

It is an object of the present invention to provide an animal husbandry management system for early detection and early identification of slaughtered livestock by judging the presence or absence of livestock disease as a thermal image of livestock in the house.

It is also an object of the present invention to provide a livestock management system capable of improving productivity and eliminating overcrowding of urban population by adding livestock management information to livestock non-specialists.

To this end, the livestock management system according to the present invention comprises: a first photographing device provided in a housing access road and photographing an image of an entrance / exit vehicle; A second photographing device provided inside the housing for photographing a thermal image of the livestock; And an information extraction unit for extracting the number information of the entrance and exit vehicles from the image captured by the first camera unit and extracting the body heat information of the animal from the thermal image captured by the second camera unit.

In addition, the first photographing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a sensing unit sensing the entry of the entrance / exit vehicle into a barn; A first camera unit for photographing an image of the housing entrance vehicle sensed by the sensing unit; A wireless communication unit wirelessly transmitting an image of the barn entrance vehicle taken by the first camera; A first power supply unit for supplying power to the power consumption module; A moving unit for moving the first photographing apparatus; A first controller for controlling a direction of the first camera in a direction of the vehicle sensed by the sensing unit, controlling wireless transmission of an image photographed by the first camera, and controlling power supply of the power supply unit; .

Further, the first power source unit according to the embodiment of the present invention may include a solar module for supplying power to the power consumption module; A first battery that is charged by the photovoltaic module and supplies power to the power consumption module when the photovoltaic module is inactive; And a second battery for supplying power only to the first control unit and the wireless communication unit when the power amount of the first battery is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold value. .

Meanwhile, the moving unit according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of wheels.

The second photographing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a second camera section for photographing a thermal image of an in-house animal; A fixing part fixing the second camera part to an arbitrary position; A communication unit for transmitting the thermal image captured by the second camera unit to the outside; A second power supply unit for supplying power to the second camera unit and the communication unit; .

The information extracting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a first extracting unit for extracting license plate information from an image of the access vehicle wirelessly received from the first photographing apparatus; A first storage unit for storing the license plate information extracted by the first extraction unit; A second extracting unit for extracting livestock body heat information from a thermal image of the livestock provided from the second photographing apparatus; A disease determination unit for determining a disease of a livestock based on the livestock body heat information extracted by the second extraction unit; A second storage unit for storing the livestock body heat information extracted by the second extraction unit and the disease animal information derived by the determination unit; And a wired / wireless communication unit for transmitting information stored in the first storage unit and the second storage unit to an associated facility or a housing management manager; .

The apparatus further includes a livestock journal providing apparatus for providing a livestock journal for livestock farm management on-line to a housing administrator according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Meanwhile, the apparatus for providing animal husbandry according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an animal husbandry basin as a production management journal; A disease information department that provides symptom coping strategies for livestock diseases; Forms providing proofs, certificates, and forms; .

The features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

Prior to that, terms and words used in the present specification and claims should not be construed in a conventional and dictionary sense, and the inventor may properly define the concept of the term in order to best explain its invention It should be construed in accordance with the meaning and concept consistent with the technical idea of the present invention.

According to various embodiments of the present invention, it is possible to prevent livestock communicable diseases in advance by managing information on housing access vehicle in real time, and to suppress the spread of livestock communicable diseases.

In addition, according to various embodiments of the present invention, sick livestock can be detected early and quickly diagnosed by determining the presence or absence of disease in the livestock with the thermal image of the domestic livestock.

Lastly, according to various embodiments of the present invention, productivity enhancement and urban overcrowding can be solved by providing the livestock management information to the livestock non-specialist by adding the efficiency of livestock management.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a housing management system according to an embodiment of the present invention;
2 is a block diagram showing a first photographing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;
3 is a block diagram showing a first power source unit according to an embodiment of the present invention;
4 is a block diagram showing a second photographing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;
5 is a block diagram showing an information extracting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;
6 is a block diagram showing an animal husbandry organizing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The objectives, specific advantages and novel features of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which: FIG. It should be noted that, in the present specification, the reference numerals are added to the constituent elements of the drawings, and the same constituent elements are assigned the same number as much as possible even if they are displayed on different drawings. Also, the terms " first ", " second ", and the like are used to distinguish one element from another element, and the element is not limited thereto.

Also, the singular forms as used below include plural forms unless the phrases expressly have the opposite meaning. Throughout the specification, when an element is referred to as "including" an element, it means that it can include other elements as well, without departing from the other elements unless specifically stated otherwise.

The same reference numerals are used for the same members of Figs. 1 to 6.

The basic principle of the present invention is to capture the image of the housing entrance vehicle and extract the license plate information to manage the housing access vehicle in real time and photograph the thermal image of the domestic animals in the housing to identify the disease and manage the animals.

In the following description of the present invention, detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear.

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

2 is a block diagram showing a first photographing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an example of a housing management system according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a second photographing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating an information extracting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. And FIG. 6 is a block diagram illustrating an apparatus for providing animal husbandry according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a housing management system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a first photographing apparatus 110, a second photographing apparatus 120, and an information extracting apparatus 130.

The housing management system 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 1 will be described later with reference to FIG. 2 to FIG.

First, the first photographing apparatus 110 is started.

The first photographing apparatus 110 is provided in the housing access road and photographs an image or a moving image of the housing entrance vehicle A. [ 2, the first imaging device 110 includes a sensing unit 111, a first control unit 112, a first camera unit 113, a wireless communication unit 114, a first power unit 115, And a moving part 116.

First, the sensing unit 111 senses the housing entrance vehicle A that attempts to enter the housing. The sensing unit 111 transmits sensing information indicating that the detected housing entrance vehicle A is present to the controller 112. Here, the sensed information of the housing entrance vehicle A may include information on the direction in which the vehicle travels. In addition, the detection information may further include speed information of the housing entrance vehicle A. [ At this time, the speed information may be a main factor for determining the time taken by the first camera unit 113 to photograph the vehicle.

On the other hand, the first control unit 112 activates the first camera unit 113 based on the sensing information including the direction information. Accordingly, the first camera unit 113 performs an imaging command including the direction control information of the first controller 112 for a predetermined number of times for a preset time. That is, the first camera section 113 photographs the number plate of the housing entrance vehicle A in accordance with the photographing command. Here, the first camera unit 113 may photograph the housing entrance vehicle A with moving images or images (photographing information).

The moving images or images captured by the first camera unit 113 are transmitted to the wireless communication unit 114 under the control of the first control unit 112 and the wireless transmission unit 115 transmits the transmitted images to the outside via wireless transmission do. Here, the first control unit 112 may select at least one image frame from a moving image captured by the first camera unit 113 in real time, and transmit the selected image frame to the wireless communication unit 114. For example, the first control unit 112 may capture a barn entrance vehicle A in a moving picture for 10 seconds, select a frame in units of seconds, and transmit the selected frame to the wireless communication unit 114. Then, the information extraction device 130 extracts license plate information from the images. The license plate extraction will be described later with reference to FIG.

On the other hand, the first photographing apparatus 110 operates by its own power generation. 3, the first power supply unit 115 includes a solar module 115a. That is, the photovoltaic module 115a supplies power to modules (power modules) consuming power in the first photographing apparatus 110 by being generated as sunlight. The solar module 115a charges the first battery 115b with surplus electric power. Accordingly, when the amount of photovoltaic power generation is insufficient or impossible, the power stored in the first battery 115b is supplied to the power modules. By performing the power supply as described above, the first photographing apparatus 110 can self-supply and receive power independently without supplying power from the outside. On the other hand, if the remaining power of the first battery 115b is less than the preset remaining power, the first controller 112 stops supplying power to the first controller 115b except for the first controller 112 and the wireless communication unit 114. [ To this end, the first power source unit 115 includes a second battery 115c. Accordingly, when the first image capturing apparatus 110 is in a power shortage state, the first controller 112 can notify the manager of the remote location through the wireless communication unit 114 of the current state.

Next, a second photographing apparatus 120 according to an embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIG.

Next, a second photographing apparatus 120 according to an embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIG.

4, the second photographing apparatus 120 includes a second camera section 121, a communication section 122, a fixing section 123, and a second power source section 124.

First, it is preferable that the second camera unit 121 is a thermal imaging camera that displays the body heat of the animals in a distribution of colors (R, G, B). Therefore, it is possible to capture the body heat information of the livestock by photographing the livestock inside the housing of the second camera unit 121. It is preferable that the second camera unit 121 is provided above the barn, which is easy to photograph livestock among the barn. For this purpose, the fixing part 123 may be a fixing member capable of fixing the second camera part 121 on the upper side of the inside of the housing. The thermal image of the livestock photographed by the second camera 121 is transmitted to the information extracting apparatus 130 through the communication unit 122. Here, the communication unit 122 may wirelessly transmit the thermal image to the information extracting apparatus 130 wirelessly or wirelessly with the wireless communication unit 114 of the first photographing apparatus 110 provided outside, And wirelessly transmit the image image to the outside via the wireless communication unit 114. [ Therefore, the communication method of the communication unit 122 is preferably not particularly limited. The second camera 121 can photograph the thermal image for a preset number of times. For example, the second camera 121 can capture one time per 10 seconds or one time per minute, so that the number of times of shooting per hour is not particularly limited, but the amount of change in body heat is not abrupt, so once per minute, once every 5 minutes, once every 10 minutes And the like. Since the second camera 121 and the communication unit 122 include power consumption modules consuming power, the second power supply unit 124 is provided. The second power source unit 124 may supply its own power including the solar module and the battery similarly to the first power source unit 115. However, the second power source unit 124 may be powered by a power line provided inside the housing, have.

The information extracting apparatus 130 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIG.

5, an information extracting apparatus 130 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a first extracting unit 131, a first storing unit 132, a second extracting unit 133, a disease determining unit 134, A second storage unit 135, and a wire / wireless communication unit 136.

First, the first extracting unit 131 extracts a license plate image from the image of the vehicle captured by the first camera 111. For example, the first extracting unit 131 performs the image preprocessing step as follows. First of all, warping or turning of the license plate reduces the accuracy of license plate recognition, so it corrects the angle, performs the contrast improvement process and the filtering process. And car license plate detection step. In the vehicle license plate detection step, a method of detecting a license plate using an edge operator is suitable. Next, a step of recognizing the detected vehicle number is performed. That is, characters are extracted from the license plate area and recognized through pattern matching.

The vehicle license plate information thus extracted is stored in the first storage unit 132, and if the unregistered vehicle attempts to enter or exit the specific housing, it can notify the house manager of the entry of the unregistered vehicle. To this end, the first extracting unit 131 may provide housing entry information of the unregistered vehicle to the wired / wireless communication unit 136. Then, the wired / wireless communication unit 136 may transmit the housing entry information of the unregistered vehicle to the mobile terminal of the housing manager through SMS or the like.

Next, the second extracting unit 133 and the disease judging unit 134 will be described later.

The second extracting unit 133 receives thermal image captured by the second camera 121 and extracts thermal distribution information of the image. For example, thermal imaging information is extracted from thermal images transmitted by a thermal imaging camera. And displays the extracted thermal distribution information. Next, the livestock body heat is calculated and derived from the thermal distribution information.

Then, the disease judgment unit 134 displays the livestock body heat with the derived thermal distribution information and confirms whether the livestock body heat is abnormal. If it is determined that the animal body heat information is abnormal, the abnormal state information is stored in the second storage unit 135 and transmitted to the wired / wireless communication unit 136. Accordingly, the wired / wireless communication unit 136 can transmit the abnormal state information to the corresponding housing manager C and the facility (D, D, D, etc.).

Meanwhile, the information stored in the first storage unit 132 and the information stored in the second storage unit 134 can be selectively transmitted to the corresponding housing manager, the antidumping authority, the livestock hospital, or the like by the wire / wireless communication unit 136.

Finally, the livestock journal providing device 140 will be described below with reference to FIG.

The animal husbandry log providing device 140 includes an animal husbandry unit 141, a disease information unit 142, and a form provider 143.

The livestock diurnal unit 141 can be used to easily prepare for various types of authentication by making it possible to create management journals for various livestock. The livestock-diary 141 provides an input form for various journals and easily creates and supports output and on-line storage, so that it can be created and inquired regardless of places.

The Disease Information Unit (142) establishes a database (DB) on symptoms and coping strategies of livestock diseases to provide livestock disease information so that it can be easily searched for diseases according to kinds of livestock, symptoms, etc., Can be utilized.

The form providing unit 143 provides a document-specific input form so that a proof / authentication application and various notes and report forms can be created and output.

Table 1 below is a table showing details of the animal husbandry unit 141, the disease information unit 142, and the formatter 143.

Main Category Middle class Small classification Contents Production management journal
(Livestock Diary) Bird Care Diary -

Bovine management journal Animal management journal Export nostalgia management journal Livestock waste treatment facility management journal Livestock wastewater discharge facility management journal Disease information General livestock disease small Disease D.B pig Disease D.B small Disease D.B Birds Disease D.B dog Disease D.B Special livestock disease Words Disease D.B Sheep Disease D.B mink Disease D.B deer Disease D.B amount Disease D.B rabbit Disease D.B Beekeeping Disease D.B An overseas livestock epidemic Domestic outbreak disease Disease D.B Concerns about inflow of domestic disease Disease D.B Foreign animals for ecosystem Disease D.B Make various forms Certification and proof form - - Grant Form - - Various report forms - - Various report forms - -

100: Livestock management system 110: First imaging device
120: second photographing apparatus 130: information extracting apparatus
140: Livestock logger providing device 111:
112: first control unit 113: first camera unit
114: wireless communication unit 115: first power source unit
115a: Solar module 115b: First battery
115c: second battery 121: second camera unit
122: communication unit 123:
124: second power source unit 131: first extracting unit
132: first storage unit 133: second extracting unit
134: disease judgment unit 135: second storage unit
136: wired / wireless communication unit 141:
142: Disease Information Division 143:

Claims (8)

A first photographing device provided in the housing access road and photographing an image of an entrance / exit vehicle attempting to enter and exit the house;
A second photographing device provided inside the housing for photographing a thermal image of the animals; And
An information extracting device for extracting number information of the entrance and exit vehicle from the image captured by the first camera section and extracting body heat information of the animals from the thermal image captured by the second camera section, Included housing management system. The method according to claim 1,
The first photographing apparatus
A sensing unit for sensing a housing entry of the access vehicle;
A first camera unit for capturing an image of the entrance / exit vehicle sensed by the sensing unit;
A wireless communication unit wirelessly transmitting an image of the entrance / exit vehicle photographed by the first camera;
A first power supply unit for supplying electric power to the power consuming module;
A moving unit for moving the first photographing apparatus; And
And a first control unit for controlling the direction of the first camera in the direction of the vehicle sensed by the sensing unit and controlling the wireless transmission of the image photographed by the first camera and controlling the power supply of the power supply unit . The method of claim 2,
The first power source unit
A photovoltaic module for supplying power to the power consumption module;
A first battery that is charged by the photovoltaic module and supplies power to a module that consumes power when the photovoltaic module is inactivated;
When the power amount of the first battery is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold, the first control unit; And a second battery for supplying power only to the wireless communication unit; Wherein the housing management system comprises: The method of claim 2,
The moving unit
And a plurality of wheels are provided. The method according to claim 1,
The second photographing apparatus
A second camera section for photographing a thermal image of a domestic animal in a house;
A fixing part fixing the second camera part to an arbitrary position;
A communication unit for transmitting the thermal image captured by the second camera unit to the outside; And
A second power supply unit for supplying power to the second camera unit and the communication unit; Wherein the housing management system comprises: The method according to claim 1,
The information extraction device
A first extracting unit for extracting license plate information from an image of the entrance / exit vehicle wirelessly received from the first photographing apparatus;
A first storage unit for storing the license plate information extracted by the first extraction unit;
A second extracting unit for extracting livestock body heat information from a thermal image of the livestock provided from the second photographing apparatus;
A disease determination unit for determining a disease of a livestock based on the livestock body heat information extracted by the second extraction unit;
A second storage unit for storing the livestock body heat information extracted by the second extraction unit and the disease animal information derived by the determination unit; And
A wired / wireless communication unit for transmitting information stored in the first storage unit and the second storage unit to an associated facility or a housing management manager; Wherein the housing management system comprises: The method according to claim 1,
To the housekeeper
And a livestock journal providing apparatus for providing a livestock journal for livestock farming management on-line. The method of claim 7,
The livestock journal providing apparatus
A production control log; And
A disease information department that provides symptoms and coping strategies for livestock diseases;
Forms providing proofs, certificates, and forms; And an animal husbandry management system.

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