Experiences with Precision Livestock Farming in European Farms
Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) is the fully automated continuous monitoring of (individual) animals by using modem information and communications technology (sensors,cameras, microphones, etc.) as part of the management system.PLF assists livestock producers through automated, continuous monitoring and improvement of the status of the animals.A number of PLF tools have been developed at laboratory levels as prototypes and as commercial products that are now available for farmers.The overall objective of a running EU-PLF project is to support farmers using PLF solutions in commercial farms and to experience/analyse how these products can improve value for the farmers in practice.The objective of this paper is to share some results of this project.Twenty farms (5 broiler, 10 fattening pig, and 5 milking cow farms) spread over Europe have been selected and PLF equipment has been installed.In these farms, sensor data, images and sound data are stored and PLF algorithms run on these data.The PLF systems calculate PLF scores based upon fully automated continuous monitoring.Farmers have been using the technology while visits and meetings have been organised to understand their response to the use of these systems on the commercial farms.Results of these events are reported and discussed.A proposal is made to apply PLF systems in Asian Countries.
Automated monitoring information and communications technology commercial farms animal welfare welfare quality protocols
Daniel Berckmans Tomas Norton
Division M3-BIORES (Measure, Model & Manage Bio Responses)Catholic University Leuven, Belgium
国际会议
The First Asian Conference on Precision Livestock Farming (2016 PLF-Asia)(首届亚洲智慧畜牧业国际研讨会)
北京
英文
23-29
2016-09-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）