US20140107434A1 - Method and System for Monitoring the Condition of Livestock - Google Patents
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- The present application is a continuation application of co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/226,464, filed on Feb. 12, 2009, which is a national stage application under 35 U.S.C. §371 of International Patent Application Number PCT/GB2007/001423, filed Apr. 18, 2007, which claims the benefit of Great Britain Patent Application Serial No. 0607657.4, filed Apr. 18, 2006, each of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.
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- 1. Field of the Invention
- The present invention relates to a method and system for monitoring the condition of livestock. In particular, it relates to remotely monitoring the behavioural and physiological states of livestock to determine their welfare, health and fertility condition.
- 2. Description of the Related Art
- With increasing awareness of health related issues concerning livestock and the significant losses that arise from poor fertility management, the farming industry has been forced to adapt in maintaining accurate records of livestock. As the size of farms increase, the ability of a stockman to keep records and track individual animals becomes increasingly difficult. There are many known systems for electronically tagging animals for identification purposes etc. Identification data is held in a unit worn by the animal in a neck collar, ear tag or injected transponder or the like. The data can be extracted as required at fixed or mobile locations.
- It is also known to utilise such tags to collect data relating to activities of the animal, for example U.S. Pat. No. 5,857,434. U.S. Pat. No. 5,857,434 discloses detection of oestrus in dairy cattle. A transponder unit worn in a collar around the animal's neck detects the movement of the animal. During oestrus, the animal becomes agitated and moves around more frequently. This increased activity is detected and transmitted, along with identification data for the animal, to a central processor. The data is then processed and analysed to establish whether oestrus is detected and this is indicated to the stockman. The transponder merely collects the movement data of the animal. This data is then transmitted and centrally processed. The transponder does not detect oestrus. Further only a single condition, oestrus, is monitored and the system does not provide data concerning other health related matters.
- Further some existing systems require sensors to be attached invasively which is distressing to the animal and requires the skill of a veterinary surgeon. Further such forms of attachment to the animal have limited ability to transmit information from the animal for use by the stockman.
- Further existing systems, such as that disclosed by GB 2347503 and CA 1296068, comprise a range of sensors for monitoring the physiological parameters of an animal for determining the health of the animal. However, these require complex and, invariably, temperamental sensory instruments in order to monitor the physiological parameters making the system overall very expensive and hence impractical for monitoring all animals in a very large herd or group in a farming environment.
- Furthermore due to the complexity of these systems, they require professional assistance, such as a veterinary surgeon, to set up, program and maintain the system which is impractical for an extremely large number of animals. Further, as such systems monitor physiological parameters, it is less intuitive to the stockman, who traditionally relies on observation to monitor health, to confirm the condition indicated by the system, thus making it more difficult for the stockman to verify the accuracy of the system.
- Further, in monitoring the condition of livestock, a key period for health monitoring in cattle, sheep, horses and pigs is in the period immediately before and after parturition. None of the existing systems disclose specific monitoring during such periods.
- At present there is no system that can do any of the condition based monitoring of cattle necessary to improve both the health and fertility monitoring of animals. Monitoring is still by human visual observation as it has been since the first domestication of animals. However, it has become increasingly desirable for better management of livestock, in particular health monitoring in livestock in the period immediately before and after parturition and to reduce losses from dystocia, hypocalcaemia and other diseases.
- It has also become increasingly desirable to reduce time lost moving animals unnecessarily for veterinary examination. Further, it is desirable to provide earlier intervention in cases of metritis and lameness and thus improve welfare and possibly productivity of animals such as dairy cattle as well as provide improved oestrus detection.
- With the increasing scale of farming, it has become increasingly difficult and impractical for stockmen to rely on traditional observation techniques to ensure health and welfare of their stock. There has therefore been an increasing need for additional monitoring systems to be utilised.
- The invention seeks to provide remote, continuous monitoring of various parameters relating to the condition of livestock, such as cattle, sheep, pigs, horses and the like which mitigates the above mentioned disadvantages.
- This is achieved according to an aspect of the present invention by a method for monitoring the condition of livestock, the method comprising the steps of: sensing changes in orientation and movement of an animal's head using at least one multi-axis accelerometer; determining increased activity of said animal from said sensed changes in orientation and movement of said animal's head; determining a plurality of status conditions of said animal from said determined increased activity, said status conditions including at least one of fertility, oestrus and prediction of onset of parturition; and transmitting data, wirelessly, to a central computer.
- This is also achieved according to an aspect of the present invention by a system for monitoring the condition of livestock, the system comprising: at least one multi-axis accelerometer configured to sense changes in orientation and movement of an animal's head; a processor configured to determine increased activity of said animal from said sensed changes in orientation and movement of said animal's head and to determine a plurality of status conditions of said animal from said determined increased activity, said status conditions including at least one of fertility, oestrus and prediction of onset of parturition; and a transceiver configured to transmit data, wirelessly, to a central computer.
- Further, this is achieved according to another aspect of the present invention by a device for monitoring the condition of livestock, the device comprising attachment means configured to attach the device to an animal; at least one multi-axis accelerometer configured to sense changes in orientation and movement of an animal's head; a processor configured to determine increased activity of said animal from said sensed changes in orientation and movement of said animal's head and to determine a plurality of status conditions of said animal from said determined increased activity, said status conditions including at least one of fertility, oestrus and prediction of onset of parturition; and a transceiver configured to transmit data, wirelessly, to a central computer.
- Further, this is achieved according to yet another aspect of the present invention by a method for monitoring the condition of livestock, the method comprising the steps of: sensing changes in orientation and movement of an animal's head using at least one 3-axis accelerometer; determining increased walking activity of said animal from said sensed changes in orientation and movement; determining oestrus, at least, of said animal from said determined increased walking activity; and transmitting data, wirelessly, to a central computer.
- Further, this is achieved according to yet another aspect of the present invention by a system for monitoring the condition of livestock, the system comprising: at least one 3-axis accelerometer configured to sense changes in orientation and movement of an animal's head; a processor configured to determine increased walking activity of said animal from said sensed changes in orientation and movement of said animal's head and to determine oestrus of said animal from said determined increased walking activity; and a transceiver configured to transmit data, wirelessly, to a central computer.
- Further, this is achieved according to yet another aspect of the present invention by a device for monitoring the condition of livestock, the device comprising attachment means configured to attach the device to an animal; at least one 3-axis accelerometer configured to sense changes in orientation and movement of an animal's head; a processor configured to determine increased walking activity of said animal from said sensed changes in orientation and movement and determine oestrus of said animal; and a transceiver configured to transmit data, wirelessly, to a central computer.
- The monitor worn by the subject (animal) collates and processes the data in respect of the detected parameters of the livestock. The monitor transmits the data; say for example, via a local area network to a processor, which may in turn be linked via wireless communication to a central data processor and storage device. The data may be contained in a local database for use by the stockman and may also be contained in a national or veterinary health information database for wider reference and analysis. On the basis of the detected parameters, a plurality of status conditions, such as for example, oestrus, onset of parturition, lameness, disease, can be derived as an indication of the overall condition of the animal. Since increased activity is monitored, the system is less complex and the monitored behaviour can be easily confirmed by stockman observations, making use of the system more intuitive, thus increasing the stockman's confidence in the system.
- In an embodiment of the present invention, the system comprises a network of sensors attached to the animal. The sensors may be included in a neck collar, head collar, eartag, tail attachment or patches adhered to the skin of the animal or any combination thereof. The sensors are therefore fitted in a non-invasive manner. The sensors may be connected in a bus-like architecture to allow easy addition and removal of sensors as required. Further, the sensors may be reusable.
- The sensors may measure location, movement, sound and optical change. The monitor worn by the animal may also include a processor to collect and process information and control communication, software embedded on the processor, a transceiver and a memory store for recording sensor data.
- The monitor worn by the animal communicates with an external antenna. The external antenna may comprise a distributed network of antennae provided at different locations. The antennae may download data wirelessly to a local computer system containing a stock management database to be analysed and provide output of prediction and current behaviour/condition of the animals. The analysis is based upon physiological models which can be updated remotely.
- The system of the present invention therefore provides effective livestock management and veterinary assistance to predict and react to the onset of conditions such as fertility status, parturition and to detect, at an early stage, lameness of the animals.
- The system may be easily extended to predict the onset of disease and predict its epidemiological spread by its links to national or other level databases.
- The system may be supplied with various methods of supplying the livestock manager with predictions of conditions; these could include mobile telephone messages, computer screens and milking parlour displays.
- The data may be downloaded from the monitor units worn by the animal to the distributed network of external antennae utilising radio protocols such as Bluetooth or Zigbee. Preferably the antennae are placed near congregation points for the livestock, such as feed area, watering troughs, etc. The data may be transferred to a local processor where data analysis is carried out providing information to the stockman and/or uploading a data summary to a regional or national database, where the data is correlated.
- The system of the present invention can be utilised to detect the onset of parturition, illness such as lameness and fertility status. The aim is that a network of physical sensors is used to determine behavioural and physiological indicators of condition status and an indication of time of onset of a subsequent condition. Various parameters of the animal are recorded electronically by the monitor unit worn by the animal that can be communicated with any suitably equipped vehicle, market reception, and abbatoir to monitor the health and welfare of an animal as it moves through the food chain. The attachment of the monitor unit is designed to be robust so that it can be worn for long continuous periods as necessary, for example, for the life of the animal. The monitor unit may record a health status record of the animal. This record stored within the monitor unit is then permanently attached to the animal, that is, it is worn for the life of the animal. The data stored may include, for example, birth data, birth location, subsequent lactations, date of parturition, past or predicted health incidents etc.
- The monitor unit may be a “smart” unit incorporating multiple sensors, a versatile communications infrastructure and multiple behavioural models. The unit of the present invention may incorporate multi-modal sensors incorporating behavioural and physiological analysis to monitor specific conditions in livestock allowing multiple conditions to be monitored simultaneously.
- Further, this is achieved according to yet another aspect of the present invention by a device for maintaining an electronic record of condition of livestock, the device comprising: storage means for storing a plurality of records of condition of a subject; means for permanently attaching the device to said subject. Further, some or all of the monitor electronic record may be stored using external storage means e.g. a farm or national database and may be permanently associated with the local monitor electronic record.
- In this way various conditions of the animal are recorded electronically by the monitor unit worn by the animal that can be communicated with any suitably equipped vehicle, market reception, and abbatoir to monitor the health and welfare of an animal as it moves through the food chain. The monitor unit is worn permanently by the animal in that it is attached for the life of the animal. The monitor unit may record a health status record of the animal. This record stored within the monitor unit is then permanently attached to the animal. The data stored may include, for example, birth data, birth location, subsequent lactations, date of parturition, past or predicted health incidents etc.
- The monitor unit may also receive data from the central processor such as status condition data derived from the sensed data, any environmental data, manually entered status condition data such as actual parturition dates and other observed health issues noted by the stockman, programming data to reprogram the monitor unit.
- For a complete understanding of the present invention, reference is made to the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the system according to an embodiment of the present invention; -
FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram of the device worn by the animal according to an embodiment of the present invention; -
FIG. 3 is a flow chart of the method according to an embodiment of the present invention; -
FIG. 4 is a flow chart of the sensory step of the method according to an embodiment of the present invention; and -
FIGS. 5 a, 5 b and 5 c are a graphical representation of an example of a condition monitored according to the embodiment of the present invention. - With reference to
FIGS. 1 and 2 , the system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises acollar 101 fitted around the neck of an animal. Amonitor unit 115 is attached to theneck collar 101. Although, in this embodiment theunit 115 is fitted to a neck collar, it can be appreciated that the unit can be fitted to any convenient fixture device such as for example anear tag 103,head collar 105,leg attachment 107 or belt (not shown here),transdermal patches bolus 113 or any one of these in addition or in place of thecollar 101. Theunit 115 is intended to be attached to the animal for continuous monitoring. The attachment needs to be robust to remain attached to the animal for a continuous period, which may in some circumstances be the life of the animal. Although the collar is shown fitted around the neck of a cow, it can be appreciated that the apparatus can be attached to any animal such as for example dairy cow, beef cow, buffalo, sheep, goat, pig, horse and the like. - The
collar 101 is fitted to make a snug fit so that it is not slideably moveable along the neck of the animal as the animal head moves up and down extensively such as when the animal is feeding or drinking. The fitting of thecollar 101 must be secure to prevent accidental loss during normal activities of the animal such as rubbing against a post and knocking against the bars of a grill on a feeding trough etc. The fixture of thecollar 101 may be by means of a buckle, sliding clip etc. The fixture may include a self-tensioning device to maintain a predetermined tension to ensure accurate fitting of the collar. - The
unit 115 may be mounted onto thecollar 101 or may be formed integral with thecollar 101. Thecollar 101 further comprises an antenna (not shown here) which may be contained in theunit 115 or within thecollar 101. Theunit 115 comprises a plurality ofsensors FIG. 2 .FIG. 2 illustrates 3 sensors, a 3-D accelerometer 201, a locator (such as GPS) 203 and amicrophone 205. However, any number of sensors may be envisaged such as electromagnetic or field effect sensors, e.g. Hall effect sensors or distance from ground sensors. - The apparatus may further comprise means for monitoring the distance of the collar above ground. This may be in combination with a sensor to indicate the normal position of the animal's neck with respect to its body. The distance to ground of the collar can provide an indication of whether the animal is standing or lying. This may comprise a range sensor attached to the collar on the underside of the animal's neck, pointing at an angle that, for the median range of what is considered normal neck repose, assumes a vertical or near vertical orientation and therefore provides a vertical range from the sensor location to ground level.
- Sensing of the neck orientation may be achieved using inclinometers, tilt or magnetometer sensors providing geometric information, any fixed distance measuring device mounted on the collar on the underside of the animal's neck, can be easily verified against a range of acceptable orientations to supply a valid distance of the neck above ground. Inexpensive distance measuring sensors can be used, such as for example an ultrasonic distance measuring sensor which can provide tolerable accuracies when measuring from fixed reference points projecting to varying ground textures such as grass, straw bedding, concrete flooring etc.
- The ability to discriminate standing and lying conditions of an animal can be invaluable in determining a status condition of the animal. For example, during parturition, it is important to know that the animal stands quickly post-partum. This indicates that the mother is able to foster and cleanse its offspring.
- The apparatus may further include a plurality of
remote sensors 207 positioned elsewhere on the animal outside of the housing of theunit 115 such as sensors for measuring body temperature, humidity, pH of biological fluids, electrical potentials from physiological processes, Hall effects, optical sensors of blood flow or blood oxygenation, vocalisation and respiration, breath and saliva contents, environment temperature and humidity. These remote sensors may be found in an ingestedbolus 113, orpatches eartags 103,head collar 105 and/orleg attachment 107. In an alternative arrangement, theunit 115 may be mounted in theeartag 103,head collar 105 orleg attachment 107 etc. - The
unit 115 further comprises alocal processor 209 which is connected to thesensors remote sensors 207 is connected to theprocessor 209 via a wireless link such as short wave radio. The outputs of theremote sensors 207 are digitised via respective analogue to digital converters (not shown here). Theunit 115 may further comprise pre-processing means (not shown here) for processing the outputs of the sensors prior to transmission, for example, filtering. - Each
remote sensor 207 has a unique identifier associated with a particular animal to prevent remote sensors attached to a neighbouring beast being received and processed by the local processor. - The
unit 115 further comprises alocal memory store 213, apower source 215 and atransceiver device 217 connected to theprocessor 209. Thepower source 215 may comprise replaceable or rechargeable batteries. Theunit 115 includes convenient access to a battery housing for replacement etc. of the batteries of thepower source 215. - The
sensors - The system further comprises at least one
fixed antenna 117. Theantenna 117 is provided in a location on the farm where the animal is expected to be in the vicinity of at least once a day so that data collected by theunit 115 can be downloaded. Theantenna 117 may be located at the entrance or exit of a milking parlour or at a drinking or feeding trough for example. The antenna may form part of a distributed network of antennae located at various locations such as drinking troughs, sheds, milking parlour etc. The data downloads may be required at more or less frequent intervals. For example, if the output sensory data indicates that the animal is in distress, the system can request via theantenna 117 more frequent downloads. Further, as the predicted parturition date approaches, downloads could be made more frequently, at say, 3 hour intervals. This is possible as many animals are housed in pens as parturition approaches and could therefore be housed in the vicinity of at least one antenna for convenient, frequent downloads. - The system further comprises a local computer (PC) 119 having a display and printer connected thereto. The
local computer 119 is remotely connected to anational database 121 via, say, the interne. Thelocal computer 119 may also provide output to a hand-heldelectronic device 123 such as a mobile telephone or palmtop. Thelocal computer 119 provides 2-way communication with theantenna 117 such that aunit 115 can be reprogrammed or reset by the stockman or reprogrammed automatically to request more frequent downloads for example. Further the two-way communication between thecomputer 119,antenna 117 andunit 115 allows other data to be transferred to theunit 115. - With reference to
FIGS. 3 and 4 , operation of the apparatus will be described in more detail. - The
sensors sensors processor 209 and are stored in thelocal memory 213. At predetermined time interval or upon detected of theunit 115 in the vicinity of anantenna 105, the collated data for that time interval is transmitted by thetransceiver 217 to theantenna 117. This data is then transferred to the local,farm computer 119. Thefarm computer 119 stores records for each animal by virtue of the animal's unique identifier which may be stored in itseartag 103. This identifier may be virtually linked to the animal's unique electronic legislative identity. As data is downloaded from theantenna 117 on, say, a daily basis. The farm records can be updated automatically providing the stockman with an updated status of each animal. The updated status of the animal may also be communicated for storage in thelocal store 213 of theunit 115 such that this data can be downloaded from theunit 115 in the event that the animal leaves the farm. The data stored in thefarm computer 119 and/orlocal store 213 of theunit 115 may include the animal's unique identifier, current condition, for example maiden, pregnant, lactation, number of lactations, days in milk, lame, predicted parturition date, predicted next oestrus (fertility status), suspected illness, of last update where the data is analysed. - The various sensor outputs indicating the
behavioural status 301 of the animal is received by thecomputer system 119 via theantenna 117. This data is compared to a reference physiological data model of the sensory outputs and thebehavioural status 301. The 3-D accelerometer 201 records the spatial orientation and movement of the animal's head. This data is analysed by thefarm computer 119 to indicate behavioural patterns such as time spent lying, standing; walking 401 and time spent feeding or drinking 403. Themicrophone 205 records noises made by the animal which can be analysed to indicate time spent eating, ruminating (in the case of a ruminant) andvocalisation 403 and in addition respiration rate and heart rate. Thelocator 205 provides the location of theanimal 405. Therelative location 407 may also be monitored. The location data can be analysed to indicate whether the animal is with the herd or keeping up with the herd which may indicate health problems. These are examples only and a number of additional sensory inputs may be analysed to provide additional inputs to thebehavioural status 301 of the animal. For example, the additionalremote sensors 207 may include monitoring the change of state of a muscle or muscle group or the degree of contraction of a muscle, e.g. Electrohysterogram (EHG), foetal heart rate, body temperature and blood oxygenation. - In a particular example, the output of the
accelerometer 201 indicates movement of the animal's head and in combination with the output of thelocator 203 indicate when the animal's head is down feeding or drinking. Erratic eating or drinking patterns could indicate that the animal is ill and/or distressed. If the head movement is vigorous during feeding, this would indicate that the animal is healthy. Thresholds of the frequencies of head movement can be set whilst taking into consideration the food type and texture and the age of the animal such that frequency of head movement above the threshold indicates the animal is healthy and below the threshold indicates the animal is ill. - The output date of the
sensors - The
behavioural status 301 of the animal can also be utilised to indicate thegeneral health 303, such for example prediction of the onset of parturition and subsequent lactation, the foetal heart rate indicating health of the unborn, the detection of deviations from a pattern indicating wellness, detection of hypocalcaemia, detection of dystocia, parturition, metritis, lameness, acidosis and ketosis andfertility status 305 such as oestrus. Additional input via thefarm computer 119 may be provided bymanual input 307 by the stockman and/ormilk sensors 309 monitoring milk production etc. Other inputs may be considered such as environment sensed data such as temperature and humidity, weather conditions provided from other sources. The output of thehealth status 303,fertility status 305 is provided to the stockman via a display or printer foraction 311 such as insemination, inspection etc. In this way the system provides an effective way of informing the stockman of various condition status of each animal so that the stockman has better knowledge of the condition of his livestock to enable him to manage feeding, location, bedding, mineral offerings, drug requirements. The predictions provided by the system also enable the stockman to manage more easily farm resources etc. The system may provide an alarm system to indicate an urgent condition status such as difficulties in parturition or indication of serious illnesses such as hypocalcaemia and hypomagnesaemia which require immediate attention. - As illustrated in
FIG. 5 , an example of a condition monitored by the embodiment of the present invention is illustrated, lameness. Lameness, in particular in dairy cattle, is problematic and therefore it is highly desirable to monitor such a condition in dairy cattle. - As illustrated in
FIG. 5 a, the normal gait of an animal is represented generally as a smooth, rhythmic head movement which is detected by theaccelerometer sensor 201. However, in a lame animal the movement is more erratic with jerky movements as illustrated inFIG. 5 b. This output is analysed by the farm computer, for example by counting novel singularities or measuring the change of slope or integrating area under an RMS or by FFT of the frequency data to detect anomalies as illustrated inFIG. 5 c. Numerous mathematical techniques are available and can be overlaid to extract features from the data. - Although a preferred embodiment of the method and system has been illustrated in the accompanying drawings and described in the foregoing detailed description, it will be understood that the invention is not limited to the embodiment disclosed, but is capable of numerous variations, modifications without departing from the scope of the invention as set out in the following claims.
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