Animal monitoring system and method
AssigneeFaire (Ni) Limited
InventorsBrendan O'Hare, Declan O'Hare, Jonathan Lee
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Abstract
An animal monitoring system, comprising at least one tag attachable to an animal, a real time location system (RTLS) for determining the three dimensional position of said at least one tag within a monitoring zone, orientation determining means for determining the orientation of said at least one tag, and discriminating means for discriminating between different activities of the at least one animal based upon the location and orientation of the animal's tag within the monitoring zone.
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An animal monitoring system, said system comprising:
- at least one tag attachable to an animal;
- a real time location system (RTLS) for determining the three dimensional position of said at least one tag within a monitoring zone;
- an orientation determining device for determining the three dimensional orientation of said at least one tag;
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- a discriminating device for discriminating between different activities of the at least one animal by comparing the three dimensional location and three dimensional orientation of the animal's tag within the monitoring zone with at least one datum in a computer model of the monitoring zone.
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A method of monitoring animals, said method comprising:
- individually identifying and tracking the movements of tagged animals or objects in three dimensions within a monitoring zone;
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- discriminating between different activities of at least one animal based upon the location in three dimensions and orientation in three dimensions of the animals' or objects' tags within the monitoring zone.
A tag for an animal monitoring system, said tag comprising:
- a transponder for determining the three dimensional location of the tag in a monitoring zone;
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- an orientation detection/sensing device for determining the orientation of the tag in three dimensions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.