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Bulletin No. 21 - Spring 2005
VirologyInternational Society for Animal Hygiene ? Saint-Malo - 2004
BERCKMANS D
Automatic on-line monitoring of animals by precision livestock farming.
Proceedings of the International Society for Animal Hygiene, 2004, 27-30
The concept of Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) consists in the continuous and automatic monitoring and analyzing of several variables of each animal of a farm and considering each of them as a complex, individual and time-variant organism (CIT). The objective of such a technology is to provide farmers with a valuable support tool capable of lightening their daily workload, in response to the increasing number of animals and activities farmers have to deal with. The mathematical algorithms for the analysis of the collected data are already available but the development of sensors is still under way. An experiment carried out with pigs illustrates this type of technology: microphones associated with a system capable of differentiating coughs from other sounds and sick coughs from healthy coughs proved highly reliable in identifying pigs with respiratory disease and allowed a more rational use of antibiotics.
