Livestock management system

A livestock management system, comprising:

• a first type of livestock tag attached to a first livestock animal, wherein the first type of livestock tag has a first long-range wireless transceiver and a first short-range wireless transceiver;
• a second type of livestock tag attached to a second livestock animal, wherein the second type of livestock tag has:
• a second short-range range transceiver that transmits, a unique tag identifier associated with the second type of livestock tag to the first short-range wireless transceiver of the first type of livestock tag, wherein the second type of livestock tag is incapable of transmitting a long-range wireless transmission;
• an inertial measurement unit (IMU) that generates IMU data representative of one or more of movement, activity, behavior, and physical condition of the second livestock animal, wherein the IMU data is transmitted by the second short-range transceiver to the first short-range wireless transceiver;
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• a radio frequency identification transceiver that transmits the unique tag identifier to a radio frequency reader via radio wave transmission;
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• a computing device, wherein the computing device receives the unique tag identifier and the IMU data of the second type of livestock tag from the first type of livestock tag via long-range wireless transmission from the first long-range wireless transceiver;
• wherein the computing device generates an automated inventory report of unique tag identifiers of a plurality of second livestock animals based on a plurality of transmissions received from one or more of the first long-range wireless transceivers;
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• wherein generating the automated inventory report includes comparing the received transmissions of the unique tag identifiers of the plurality of second type of livestock tags against a previously established herd of unique tag identifiers associated with a plurality of second type of livestock tags to determine the presence or absence of the second livestock animals associated with the plurality of second type of livestock tags.

A method of establishing an automated inventory report of a plurality of livestock animals, comprising:

• defining at a computing device a herd of livestock based on a plurality of unique tag identifiers associated with a plurality of first type of livestock tags and a plurality of second type of livestock tags;
• attaching each of the plurality first type of livestock tags to respective ones of livestock animals;
• attaching each of the plurality of second type of livestock tags to respective ones of additional livestock animals;
• receiving at the computing device unique tag identifiers from one or more of the plurality of first type of livestock tags at the computing device, the unique tag identifiers of the one or more of the plurality of first type of livestock tags having been transmitted to the computing device by long range wireless transmission;
• receiving at the computing device unique tag identifiers from one or more of the plurality of second type of livestock tags at the computing device, the unique tag identifiers of the one or more of the plurality of second type of livestock tags having been transmitted to the computing via a short-range wireless transmission of the unique tag identifiers of the one or more plurality of second livestock tags to one or more of the first type of livestock tags and via long-range wireless transmission of the unique tag identifier of the one or more plurality of second from one or more of the first type of livestock tags to the computing device, the one or more second type of livestock tags being incapable of long-range wireless transmission;
• comparing at the computing device the unique tag identifiers received at the computing device against the plurality of unique tag identifiers of the herd of livestock;
• identifying at the computing device the unique tag identifiers received at the computing device and matching one of the unique tag identifiers in the herd of livestock as present and identifying at the computing device the unique tag identifiers in the herd of livestock not matching one of the unique tag identifiers received at the computing device as absent.

A livestock management system, comprising:

• a first type of livestock tag attached to a first livestock animal, wherein the first type of livestock tag has a first long-range wireless transceiver and a first short-range wireless transceiver;
• a second type of livestock tag attached to a second livestock animal, wherein the second type of livestock tag has a second short-range wireless transceiver and transmits, via the second short-range wireless transceiver, a unique tag identifier associated with the second type of livestock tag to the first short-range wireless transceiver, wherein the second type of livestock tag is incapable of transmitting a long-range wireless transmission;
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• a computing device, wherein the computing device receives the unique tag identifier of the second type of livestock tag from the first type of livestock tag via long-range wireless transmission from the first long-range wireless transceiver;
• wherein the second type of livestock tag additionally includes an inertial measurement unit (IMU) that generates IMU data representative of one or more of movement, activity, behavior, and physical condition of the second livestock animal, wherein the IMU data is transmitted by the second short-range transceiver of the second type of livestock tag to the first short-range wireless transceiver of the first type of livestock tag, and wherein the computing device receives the IMU data of the second type of livestock tag from the first type of livestock tag via long-range wireless transmission from the first long-range wireless transceiver;
• wherein the first type of livestock tag additionally transmits a unique tag identifier associated with the first type of livestock tag;
• wherein the first livestock animal and the second livestock animal is a designated pair of livestock animals within the computing device;
• wherein the first type of livestock tag additionally includes an inertial measurement unit (IMU) that generates IMU data representative of one or more of movement, activity, behavior, and physical condition of the first livestock animal, wherein the IMU data generated by the first type of livestock tag is transmitted to the computing device;
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• wherein the computing system utilizes the location of the first type of livestock tag, the location of the second type of livestock tag, the IMU data of the first type of livestock tag and the IMU data of the second type of livestock tag to determine a quality of the mother livestock animal as a mother to the calf livestock animal.

A livestock management system, comprising:

• a first type of livestock tag attached to a first livestock animal, wherein the first type of livestock tag has a first long-range wireless transceiver and a first short-range wireless transceiver;
• a second type of livestock tag attached to a second livestock animal, wherein the second type of livestock tag has a second short-range wireless transceiver and transmits, via the second short-range wireless transceiver, a unique tag identifier associated with the second type of livestock tag to the first short-range wireless transceiver, wherein the second type of livestock tag is incapable of transmitting a long-range wireless transmission;
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• a computing device, wherein the computing device receives the unique tag identifier of the second type of livestock tag from the first type of livestock tag via long-range wireless transmission from the first long-range wireless transceiver;
• wherein the second type of livestock tag additionally includes an inertial measurement unit (IMU) that generates IMU data representative of one or more of movement, activity, behavior, and physical condition of the second livestock animal, wherein the IMU data is transmitted by the second short-range transceiver of the second type of livestock tag to the first short-range wireless transceiver of the first type of livestock tag, and wherein the computing device receives the IMU data of the second type of livestock tag from the first type of livestock tag via long-range wireless transmission from the first long-range wireless transceiver;
• wherein the first type of livestock tag additionally transmits a unique tag identifier associated with the first type of livestock tag;
• wherein the first livestock animal and the second livestock animal is a designated pair of livestock animals within the computing device;
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• wherein the computing system utilizes a strength of a signal received by the first short-range wireless transceiver from the second short-range wireless transceiver, as communicated to the computing system via the first long-range wireless transceiver, is used to determine a quality of the mother livestock animal as a mother to the calf livestock animal.