Systems and methods for monitoring layer poultry houses
AssigneeYan Agro Logic (1988) Limited
InventorsGenadi MALKEVICH, Anatoly SHIROKOV
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Abstract
The present invention relates to systems and methods for monitoring poultry house egg production. The system of the present invention is comprised of the following: a. a conveyor for conveying poultry eggs; b. at least one laser sensor directed in direction of said conveyor for measuring distance of said conveyor's surface and poultry eggs conveyed thereupon; c. a computer coupled with said at least one lase sensor; wherein, number of poultry eggs passed through said conveyor at a given moment is determined by identifying and analyzing fluctuations in measured distance from said at least one laser sensor.
Claims7
a system for monitoring poultry house egg production, comprising:
- a. a conveyor for conveying poultry eggs;
- b. at least one laser sensor directed in direction of said conveyor for measuring distance of said conveyor's surface and poultry eggs conveyed thereupon;
- c. a computer coupled with said at least one lase sensor;
- wherein, number of poultry eggs passed through said conveyor is determined by identifying a compliant pattern in analyzed fluctuations over time of measured distance from said at least one laser sensor.
A method for monitoring poultry house egg production, comprising the steps of:
- a. determining distance from conveyor's surface;
- b. monitoring fluctuations in said distance over time by recording in a memory of said computer values of distance from said conveyor over time;
- c. identifying poultry eggs based on fluctuations in distance such that each fluctuation in distance that is compliant is considered as a single poultry egg.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.