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US 2021/0262869 A1Published application
Wash and livestock monitoring milk meter
AssigneeAfimilk Agricultural Cooperative Ltd.
InventorsNiv PINSKY, Ehud GOLAN, Itamar COHEN
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Abstract
Disclosed is a monitoring milk meter, which is able to monitor the livestock being milked, as well as general procedures performed in the milking farm, such as the CIP procedure.
Claims20
A milk meter comprising a temperature sensor.
A system comprising:
- a first plurality of milk meters, wherein each milk meter in the first plurality of milk meters comprises a temperature sensor;
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- a central computer system connected to the plurality of milk meters;
- wherein the central computer system is connected physical or virtually to the milk meters and wherein the central computer system is configured to:
- store at least one predefined temperature value, at least one predefined temperature time length value, at least one predefined temperature range, at least one predefined temperature threshold and at least one predefined temperature time length threshold;
- receive and store temperature measurements from the temperature sensors;
- compare the temperature measurements to the predefined temperature value;
- calculate temperature time length measurements according to a time during which the temperature measurements are within about the predetermined temperature range;
- generate a temperature alert when a deviation between the temperature measurements and the predefined temperature value is above about the predefined temperature threshold;
- generate a temperature time alert when a deviation between the temperature time length measurements and the predefined temperature time length value is above about the predefined temperature time length threshold.
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A method for monitoring a CIP wash procedure in a milk farm, wherein the method comprises:
- measuring the temperature of a wash fluid by way of a temperature sensor positioned within each milk meter in a plurality of milk meters, thereby providing temperature measurements;
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- sending the temperature measurements from each milk meter in the plurality of milk meters to a central computer system at pre-defined time intervals.
A method for monitoring a CIP wash procedure in a milk farm, wherein the method comprises:
- measuring the temperature of a wash fluid by way of a temperature sensor positioned within each milk meter in a first plurality of milk meters, thereby obtaining temperature measurements;
- measuring the conductivity of the wash fluid by way of a conductivity sensor positioned within each milk meter in a second plurality of milk meters, thereby obtaining conductivity measurements;
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- sending the temperature measurements and conductivity measurements from each temperature sensor and each conductivity sensor to a central computer system, at pre-defined time intervals, wherein the time intervals for sending the temperature measurements may be the same or different than the time intervals for sending the conductivity measurements,
- wherein the first plurality of milk meters and the second plurality of milk meters may be the same or different.
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A method for monitoring a CIP wash procedure in a milk farm, wherein the method comprises:
- measuring the temperature of a wash fluid by way of a temperature sensor positioned within each milk meter in a first plurality of milk meters, thereby obtaining temperature measurements;
- measuring the conductivity of the wash fluid by way of a conductivity sensor positioned within each milk meter in a second plurality of milk meters, thereby obtaining conductivity measurements;
- sending the temperature measurements and conductivity measurements from each temperature sensor and each conductivity sensor to a central computer system at pre-defined time intervals, wherein the time intervals for sending the temperature measurements may be the same or different than the time intervals for sending the conductivity measurements;
- calculating the length of time during which the temperature measurements are within about a predetermined temperature range, thereby obtaining a temperature time length measurement;
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- calculating the length of time during which the conductivity measurements are within about a predetermined conductivity range, thereby obtaining a conductivity time length measurement,
- wherein the first plurality of milk meters and the second plurality of milk meters may be the same or different.
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