System and methods for health monitoring of anonymous animals in livestock groups
AssigneeFaunus Ltd.
InventorsEhud Yanai, Ron Elazari-Volcani
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Abstract
A system and method for tracking the health of a group of livestock. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, the vital signs of a small number of sentinel animals is tracked and used to assess the existence and/or progress of a disease in the group. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, the vital signs are assessed using a vitality sensor, for example, an accelerometer which provides signals indicating the type and/or other properties of movements made by the sentinel animals.
Claims26
A computerized method for monitoring the health of livestock groups, comprising:
- collecting measurements data from a plurality of data collecting units, each data collecting unit comprising at least one sensor, said sensors selected from the group consisting of acoustic sensors, vitality meters, movement sensors, ammonia sensors, visual sensors and scent sensors, said plurality of units including a plurality of data collection units mounted on a plurality of sentinel individuals of a livestock group;
- computing quantified records of the measurements data collected by said collecting;
- comparing the computed records to pre-stored quantified records indicating one or more of normal status, abnormalities and pathologies, said pre-stored records being of the group and of other groups;
- analyzing a result of said comparing, and
- computing and comparing records of individual sentinels, wherein said comparing the computed records comprises comparing against the sentinel's past performance and relative to the group,
- wherein said livestock is in a poultry house.
A computerized method for monitoring the health of livestock groups, comprising:
- attaching vitality meters to a sample of a statistically sufficient number of sentinels within the group;
- collecting measurements data from a plurality of data collecting units, each data collection unit comprising at least one sensor, said sensors selected from the group consisting of acoustic sensors, said vitality meters, movement sensors, ammonia sensors, visual sensors and scent sensors, said plurality of units including a plurality of data collection units mounted on a plurality of sentinel individuals of a livestock group;
- computing quantified records of the measurements data collected by said collecting;
- comparing the computed records to pre-stored quantified records indicating one or more of normal status, abnormalities and pathologies, said pre-stored records being of the group and of other groups, and
- analyzing a result of said comparing to assess a health state of the group, wherein said livestock is in a poultry house.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.