KR102418883B1 - Monitoring methods of ruminant stomach of cattle - Google Patents

Abstract

It relates to an apparatus and method for collecting movement data from a sensor device inserted into the rumen of livestock, analyzing the activity of the livestock, and monitoring the health and disease management information of the livestock by using the activity information. According to the present invention, an apparatus for monitoring an activity of a livestock using a sensor device inserted into the rumen of the livestock by oral administration includes: a data sensing unit configured to receive sensing data including movement data of the rumen from the sensor device; an activity analysis unit that analyzes the received sensing data into an intake activity, a rumination activity, and a rest activity; and a monitoring unit that stores the analyzed activity information and monitors by providing information on health and disease of livestock for which activity information is not analyzed.

Description

Method for monitoring the ruminant stomach of cattle

The present invention is a monitoring technology for livestock, and more specifically, by sensing the movement of the rumen through a sensor device orally administered to the livestock, and analyzing various activities of the livestock with the sensed motion data, according to each analyzed activity information, the livestock It relates to devices and methods for monitoring health and disease.

In a conventional livestock management system based on a sensing network infrastructure, a sensor senses livestock data, a collection device collects the sensing data, and an analysis device analyzes the health and disease state of the livestock based on the collected sensing data.

One of the most basic requirements in raising livestock in a healthy way is to monitor whether the livestock is properly ingesting feed and water and taking adequate rest.

In particular, if the livestock is a ruminant, the characteristic behavior of rumining to chew food is one of the most important indicators for diagnosing the health of the livestock. As a means of monitoring the health of livestock, there is a method of inferring health and intake conditions through indirect indicators such as feces and coat. However, the use of analogy through indirect indicators is only possible for experienced experts, and since the subjective judgment of experts is involved, the consistency of accuracy is weak.

On the other hand, monitoring livestock through direct indicators obtained by directly checking livestock has the advantage of improving accuracy and enabling easy monitoring even by non-specialists. Despite the importance of such direct monitoring, it is practically impossible to observe the animals individually as the number of herds per capita increases.

As a prior art, there is a system for analyzing the health status of livestock by orally administering a capsule-type sensor device to the livestock. The system only collects the internal temperature of livestock as biometric information through the sensor device. However, there is a limit to evaluating and managing the health status of livestock only with the collected internal temperature. This is because it was impossible to determine what kind of activity the livestock bioinformation was caused by. For example, it is not known whether the cause of the rise in internal temperature is a problem with eating activity or movement activity. Simply providing an increase in internal temperature as a health care issue is unreliable. An increase in internal temperature may also be caused by normal eating or movement activities. That is, it is required to evaluate and monitor the problem with reliability by analyzing the activity state of the livestock corresponding to the causal relationship when biometric information such as the temperature change of the animal changes.

Korean Patent Publication 2014-0067195 (2014.06.05)

The present invention was created in recognition of the prior art as described above, and by using a sensor device administered to the rumen of the livestock, the movement data of the rumen and movement of the livestock is sensed, and the health and disease of the livestock is monitored with the sensed movement data. An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for

An object of the present invention is to analyze the rumen movement data of the livestock to analyze feed and water intake, rumination and rest activity, and to monitor the health and disease of the livestock using the analyzed activity information.

The purpose of analyzing the movement data of the movement of the livestock is to monitor the estrous state of the livestock.

According to one aspect, an apparatus for monitoring an activity of a livestock using a sensor device inserted into the rumen of the livestock by oral administration includes: a data sensing unit configured to receive sensing data including movement data of the rumen from the sensor device; an activity analysis unit that analyzes the received sensing data into an intake activity, a rumination activity, and a rest activity; and a monitoring unit that stores the analyzed activity information, and provides and monitors health and disease information of livestock according to the analysis of the activity information.

The data sensing unit receives the sensing data further including temperature and pH.

The activity analyzer checks the sensing data that the temperature decreases, analyzes it as a negative intake activity, and counts the analyzed negative number.

The activity analysis unit, the movement data is included in the range of the pre-stored intake movement pattern, it is analyzed as feed intake activity by confirming that the pH is lowered, and counting the analyzed intake time.

The activity analysis unit, the movement data is included in the range of the pre-stored rumination movement pattern, it is analyzed as a rumination activity by confirming that the pH rises, and counts the analyzed rumination time.

The activity analyzer confirms that the movement data is included in a range of a pre-stored resting movement pattern and that the pH is included in a pre-stored normal pH pattern, analyzes it as a resting activity, and counts the analyzed resting time.

The monitoring unit generates common information from the sensing data corresponding to each activity information by livestock and pedigree as a pattern, and then the sensing data outside the range of each generated pattern maintains livestock information for a predetermined period of time. Provide as required livestock information.

The monitoring unit, when the number of negative water is less than the reference number of times in the information on the livestock requiring health management, or when the intake time is less than the reference time, provides it as information on the livestock for which the disease test is required.

The monitoring unit confirms that the pH is lowered below the reference value by the ingestion activity, and provides it as information on livestock requiring a disease test for peracidosis in order to prevent death.

Counts whether the movement data exceeds a reference value at every set period, confirms that the counting number exceeds the reference value for a set time, analyzes it as a movement activity, and further includes a movement activity analysis unit for counting the analyzed movement time do.

The monitoring unit provides the livestock information in which the increase in the movement activity exceeding the reference value is confirmed as the livestock information in an estrous state.

According to another aspect, there is provided a method for monitoring an activity of a livestock using a sensor device inserted into the rumen of the animal by means of an oral administration, the method comprising: receiving and sensing sensing data including movement data of the rumen from the sensor device; analyzing the received sensing data into ingestion activity, rumination activity, and rest activity; and storing the analyzed activity information, and monitoring by providing information on the health and disease of livestock according to the analysis of the activity information.

According to one aspect of the present invention, the biometric information sensed in the rumen of the livestock is compared with the past activity pattern and analyzed as the activity of the livestock, and information on the health and disease of the livestock is provided according to the analyzed activity. Compared to managing the health of livestock, it is possible to more accurately manage and monitor the health and disease of livestock by using more specific livestock activity information.

Since the rumen movement data sensed in the present invention senses the rumen movement according to the movement of livestock as well as the rumen movement of the digestive activity, it is possible to accurately analyze the activity information of the cattle based on the movement data of the cattle, and when the movement activity of the cattle increases It is possible to manage the estrus state of cattle.

The following drawings attached to this specification illustrate preferred embodiments of the present invention, and together with the detailed description of the present invention serve to further understand the technical spirit of the present invention, the present invention is should not be construed as limited to
1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
2 is an exemplary view of the rumen of a livestock to which the sensor device of FIG. 1 is orally administered.
3 is a schematic configuration diagram of the monitoring server of FIG. 1 .
4 is an exemplary diagram of motion sensing data received by the monitoring server of FIG. 1 .
5 is a schematic flowchart of a method according to a first embodiment of the present invention;
6 is a flowchart of processing of a monitoring server according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Prior to this, the terms or words used in the present specification and claims should not be construed as being limited to their ordinary or dictionary meanings, and the inventor should properly understand the concept of the term in order to best describe his invention. Based on the principle that it can be defined, it should be interpreted as meaning and concept consistent with the technical idea of the present invention. Accordingly, the embodiments described in this specification and the configurations shown in the drawings are only the most preferred first embodiment of the present invention and do not represent all of the technical spirit of the present invention, so they can be substituted at the time of the present application It should be understood that various equivalents and modifications may exist.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a system 100 according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

The system 100 according to the first embodiment of the present invention is configured to include a monitoring server 110 , a transceiver 130 , and a sensor device 150 communicating through a wireless network.

The monitoring server 110 receives livestock data including movement data sensed by the sensor device 150 orally administered to the rumen of the livestock through the transceiver 130 . The monitoring server 110 analyzes the received livestock data to analyze activities such as intake, rumination, and rest of the livestock. The monitoring server 110 generates a certain pattern with activity information based on the sensing data of each livestock, and determines the health abnormality and disease occurrence of the livestock when out of the range of the generated pattern information. The monitoring server 110 monitors livestock data and health/disease data for each livestock, pedigree, and livestock by using various big data determined on the livestock, and provides the monitored results.

The transceiver 130 is a wireless communication-based data intermediary device installed at least one or more in the livestock house. The transceiver 130 uploads the sensing data received from the plurality of sensor devices 150 to the monitoring server 110 .

Here, a gateway device may be further added to the transceiver 130 and the monitoring server 110 . Assuming that the gateway device is installed for each livestock, the sensing data of the transceiver 130 is uploaded to the monitoring server 110 through the gateway device.

The sensor device 150 is a wireless communication device that includes at least one sensor and is seated in the rumen after oral administration to livestock to sense the internal state of the rumen. The sensor device 150 senses livestock data such as movement (eg, inclination, impact, acceleration, etc.), temperature, and pH in the rumen of the livestock. The sensor device 150 transmits the sensed livestock data to the transceiver 130 at intervals set.

2 is an exemplary view of the rumen of a livestock to which the sensor device 150 of FIG. 1 is orally administered.

The rumen of an animal is the stomach in which the food swallowed by the animal is located. Ruminant refers to regurgitating the cud from the mouth after the food in the rumen is vomited back into the mouth and swallowing it again. The rumen of livestock is ranked 1st to 4th. The first and second stomachs serve as the esophagus. When a livestock swallows food, the food swallowed through rumen activity passes through the 1st and 2nd stomachs and is vomited through the mouth.

Here, the sensor device 150 is located in the second position. When the sensor device 150 is orally administered, it passes through the first position and settles in the second position. The sensor device 150 seated in the second stomach does not vomit back into the mouth, nor is it moved to the third stomach.

3 is a schematic configuration diagram of the monitoring server 110 of FIG.

The monitoring server 110 may be implemented as a computer terminal including a processor, a memory (RAM) and a recording medium (disk) as a monitoring device of the present invention. The monitoring server 110 loads the application stored in the recording medium into the memory, and executes it through the processor. The application is configured to include a data sensing unit 311 , an activity analysis unit 313 , and a monitoring unit 315 .

The data sensing unit 311 receives livestock data sensed by the sensor device 150 seated inside the rumen through the transceiver 130 . Here, the received livestock data is sensing data including device (livestock) ID, movement (tilt, impact, acceleration, etc.) data, body temperature, and pH data. The movement data is affected by gastric movement of the rumen, movement of livestock, and the like.

The activity analysis unit 313 analyzes activities classified into intake, rumination, and rest by using the received sensing data.

First, the intake activity is divided into drinking water intake and feed intake. When the activity analysis unit 313 confirms the sensing data that the temperature decreases, it is analyzed as a negative water intake activity, and the number of analyzed negative water counts is counted. For reference, in the case of cattle, the rumen temperature is 39 to 40 degrees, and the temperature of the water the cow drinks is around 20 degrees. Cows drink about 5 to 10 liters of water at a time, and drinking water causes a sharp drop in rumen temperature. When the movement data of the sensing data is included in the pre-stored movement pattern of the feed intake, the activity analyzer 313 determines the feed intake activity and counts the determined feed intake time. In addition, when the activity analyzer 313 determines that the feed intake pattern is lowered and the pH is lowered, it can be accurately determined as the feed intake activity. The movement pattern will be described later with reference to FIG. 4 . When the feed (food) ingested from the mouth passes to the rumen, the activity of the microorganisms for digestion becomes active, and the pH decreases due to the excretion of the active microorganisms, resulting in an acidic state. Being acidic starts the digestive process that breaks down food.

Next, in the case of rumination activity, the activity analysis unit 313 analyzes the sensed movement data as rumination activity by confirming that the sensed movement data is included in the range of the pre-stored rumination movement pattern, and the pH rises, and counts the analyzed rumination time do. When ingestion of feed, feed is supplied to the empty rumen, so the pH drops and becomes acidic. When the ruminant activity starts, the second place of feed is vomited, and the food chewed in the mouth is swallowed back into the first place. repeated. At this time, the pH lowered to the most acidic state due to ingestion returns to the normal state pH as the chewed feed along with saliva enters. Here, the activity analysis unit 313 may manage the intake amount information of the individual by using the individual weight of the livestock and the counted feed intake time and rumination time.

Next, in the case of a resting activity, the activity analysis unit 313 analyzes it as a resting activity by confirming that the sensed movement data is included in the range of the pre-stored resting movement pattern, and the sensed pH data maintains the normal pH pattern, and , count the analyzed rest time.

The monitoring unit 315 stores information on drinking/feed intake activity, rumination activity, and rest activity determined based on the sensing data of livestock, respectively. Here, the sensing data in which the activity information is not analyzed is data in which an abnormality is detected, and the monitoring unit 315 provides the data in which the abnormality is detected to the manager terminal 370 as livestock information for health management. When abnormal data exceeding the disease reference value or abnormal data exceeding the disease threshold value is detected while being monitored as a health management target, the monitoring unit 315 provides the information to the manager terminal 370 as livestock information to be tested for disease.

Preferably, for monitoring health/disease management, the monitoring unit 315 generates common information from sensing data corresponding to each activity information for each livestock and breed as pattern information and stores it in the DB. The monitoring unit 315 analyzes common movement information (eg, average information) for each activity information as a pattern for healthy livestock. By the analysis process, unique pattern information is generated according to each criterion, such as by individual and by pedigree, within a range composed of the upper and lower limits of the pattern. Then, the real-time sensed data from the livestock is compared with past accumulated activity patterns and activity patterns for each breed, and health and disease management is progressed while the activity information is analyzed.

For example, it is assumed that the monitoring unit 315 classifies the livestock that fails to analyze the activity information as a health care target as the sensing data is out of the range of the activity pattern in the process of being compared with the sensing data of the activity pattern. The monitoring unit 315 provides livestock information that has failed to analyze the activity information to the manager terminal 370 . The manager terminal 370 may perform health management on livestock subject to health management as necessary.

Here, if the number of negative water in the livestock subject to health care is less than the reference number of each individual in the past, or if the intake time is less than the reference time for each individual in the past, the monitoring unit 315 determines that it is the target of the disease test, The determined livestock information is provided to the manager terminal 370 . A decrease in the number of drinking water intakes or a decrease in feed intake time are early signs of suspected animal disease.

In addition, when the sensed livestock data exceeds the disease threshold, the monitoring unit 315 provides and monitors livestock information to be managed by disease. For example, when the livestock starts eating, the pH of the rumen is lowered. If it is confirmed that the lowered pH is lowered below the standard value, the disease test for hyperacidosis is provided as required livestock information. Hyperacidosis causes the death of livestock.

Here, the manager accesses the monitoring server 110 using the manager terminal 370 and inquires the livestock information of the health management target outputted from the monitoring unit 315 to perform an individual health checkup on the corresponding livestock. have. Of course, the manager may set various pattern criteria and information of a range of patterns based on the criteria of the pattern, and compare the set pattern information with livestock information to inquire about livestock information that meets the filtering criteria of the pattern range.

The monitoring in the present invention is based on a combination of movement, temperature and pH data sensed in the rumen by analyzing the activity of drinking/feed intake, rumination and rest, and comparing the analyzed activity with the pattern of intake, rumination and rest You can notify the manager of where there is a problem or provide management information for the manager's inquiry request. Therefore, the present invention diagnoses the problem in which activity part of the intake, rumination, and rest of livestock early, and diagnoses the prognosis of disease early. In particular, if a livestock has a digestive disease, an endoscopy is performed as needed to test the disease. Since the monitoring server 110 of the present invention analyzes rumen activity information using the data sensed in the rumen, it is excellent in gastrointestinal health management and disease determination, thereby saving the number and cost of endoscopy.

4 is an exemplary diagram of motion sensing data received by the monitoring server 110 of FIG. 1 .

The left graph of the motion sensing data shows the movement of the rumen when the livestock consumes feed. The graph on the right shows the rumen movement at rest. Comparing the feeding time with the resting time, a pattern of relatively large and fast cycles per hour is confirmed when feeding is ingested. For reference, since the process of vomiting food is accompanied by the intake pattern during rumination, a section in which movement is temporarily stopped occurs in the process of vomiting. The section where this movement stops and the section during ingestion form a unique rumination pattern.

5 is a schematic flowchart of a method according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

The livestock house has a wireless environment sensing network, and wireless data communication of the monitoring server 110 , the transceiver 130 , and the sensor device 150 is connected. The sensor device 150 is orally administered to the rumen of the livestock, and then transmits livestock data sensing the movement of the rumen to the monitoring server 110 through the transceiver 130 .

The monitoring server 110 receives the livestock data sensed by the sensor device 150 of the livestock for each livestock house through the transceiver 130 (S511).

When livestock data is collected for each livestock and livestock, the monitoring server 110 analyzes the intake and rest activities of the livestock by using the movement data, temperature, and pH of the livestock data (S521). In the case of the negative water intake activity, the monitoring server 110 checks the sensing data that the temperature decreases and the pH increases, analyzes it as a negative water intake activity, and counts the analyzed negative water number (S523). In the case of feed intake activity, the monitoring server 110 analyzes it as a feed intake activity by confirming that the movement sensing data is included in the range of the movement pattern at the time of feed intake of FIG. 4 and the pH is lowered, and the analyzed intake time Count (S525). In the case of rumination activity, the monitoring server 110 analyzes the rumination activity by confirming that the movement sensing data is included in the range of the movement pattern at the time of rumination, and the pH rises, and counts the analyzed rumination time (S527). The counted intake time and rumen time may generate intake information of the livestock individual. In the case of rest activity, the monitoring server 110 analyzes it as a rest activity by confirming that the motion sensing data is included in the range of the movement pattern at rest of FIG. 4 and the normal pH is maintained, and counts the analyzed rest time (S529).

When the activity information is analyzed, the monitoring server 110 monitors livestock information that fails to analyze the activity information or records excessive duration in the analyzed activity information, classifies it as a health care target, and provides it to the manager terminal 370 (S531).

In the monitoring process, the monitoring server 110 classifies the livestock information for which the number of negative water is less than the reference value or the intake time is less than the reference value in the livestock of the health management target as the livestock information of the disease test target and provides it to the manager terminal 370 (S533) (S533) ). Of course, livestock for which livestock data above the disease threshold is sensed is classified as livestock information subject to disease testing. Excessively low values of pH are required to test for diseases of hyperacidosis.

In the process of health and disease management, the monitoring server 110 generates a real-time pattern by accumulating the sensing data that has been processed in one sensing cycle as a pattern of activity information (S535).

6 is a process flow diagram of the monitoring server 620 according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

In the monitoring server 620 according to the second embodiment of the present invention, a movement activity analysis unit 623 and a monitoring unit 625 are further added to the monitoring server 110 server of the first embodiment.

The movement activity analyzer 623 counts whether the movement data of the sensing data exceeds a reference value of the movement movement at every set sampling period (eg, 1 second). Of course, the sampling period is longer than the sensing period. When the livestock moves, the sensor device 150 in the rumen senses a larger movement than the movement data at the time of ingestion. That is, when the movement value sensed in real time exceeds the movement reference value, the movement activity of the livestock may be analyzed. The movement activity analysis unit 623 analyzes the movement activity of the livestock when the number of times counting occurs for a set time (eg, 10 minutes) exceeds the reference value, and counts the analyzed movement time (S623).

The monitoring unit 625 also compares the movement data with a pattern of movement activity. That is, if the movement data is not analyzed as any activity information of intake, rumination, rest, and movement, the monitoring unit 625 provides information on the corresponding livestock as livestock information for health management.

Here, the monitoring unit 625 may further monitor the estrous state of the livestock. The monitoring unit 625 confirms the movement activity increased more than the pattern of movement activity so far, and provides the information of the livestock as the information of the livestock whose estrous state is determined when the duration of the movement activity is long (S625) . That is, there is no abnormality compared to the pattern of intake and rumination activity, so it is not classified as a health care target, but livestock showing a rapid increase in movement activity may be determined to be in heat. The increase in movement activity is a state in which the value of the movement increases and the amplitude increases in the movement graph and the movement time increases. A reference value for determining the estrous state for each individual and for each breed may be compared with movement data.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to limited embodiments and drawings, the present invention is not limited thereto, and the technical idea of the present invention and claims to be described below by those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains It goes without saying that various modifications and variations are possible within the equivalent range of the range.

100: system 110: monitoring server
130: transceiver 150: sensor device

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delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete In the method for monitoring the activity of livestock using a sensor device inserted into the rumen of the livestock by oral administration,
receiving and sensing sensing data including rumen movement data, temperature, and pH from the sensor device;
analyzing the received sensing data into ingestion activity, rumination activity and rest activity; and
Storing the analyzed activity information, comprising the step of monitoring by providing information on the health and disease of livestock according to the analysis of the activity information,
In the analyzing step, when the movement data in the received sensing data is compared with the pre-stored intake movement pattern information and is included in the corresponding range and the pH is lowered, it is analyzed as a feed intake activity and the analyzed feed intake time is counted, and the By classifying livestock information whose intake time is less than the standard value as livestock information subject to disease testing,
By comparing the analyzed intake activity, rumination activity, and rest activity with the previously accumulated and stored pattern information for each individual and each type, the administrator is informed of which part of the intake activity, rumination activity and rest activity there is a problem, the intake activity; A method characterized in that it is possible to diagnose early in which part of the rumination and resting activities the problem occurs. delete 13. The method of claim 12,
The analyzing step is
Method characterized in that the step of checking the sensing data that the temperature goes down, analyzing it as a negative water intake activity, and counting the number of times of the analyzed negative water. delete 13. The method of claim 12,
The analyzing step is
Method characterized in that the movement data is included in the range of the pre-stored rumination movement pattern, it is analyzed as rumination activity by confirming that the pH rises, and counting the analyzed rumination time. 13. The method of claim 12,
The analyzing step is
The method, characterized in that the step of analyzing the motion data as a rest activity by confirming that the motion data is included in the range of the pre-stored resting movement pattern and the pH is included in the pre-stored normal pH pattern, and counting the analyzed resting time. 13. The method of claim 12,
The monitoring step is
After generating common information as a pattern from the sensing data corresponding to each activity information for each livestock and pedigree, the sensing data outside the range of each generated pattern maintains livestock information for a predetermined time Livestock information requiring health management Method characterized in that it is the step of providing as. 19. The method of claim 18,
The monitoring step is
When the number of negative numbers is less than the reference number of times or the intake time is less than the reference time in the livestock information requiring health management, the method characterized in that the step is to provide the information as the livestock information required for a disease test. 13. The method of claim 12,
The monitoring step is
Confirming that the pH is lowered below the reference value by the ingestion activity, and providing as livestock information required for a disease test of peracidosis to prevent death. 13. The method of claim 12,
Prior to the monitoring step,
Counting whether the movement data exceeds a reference value for each set period, confirming that the counting number exceeds the reference value for a set time, analyzing it as a movement activity, and counting the analyzed movement time How to characterize. 22. The method of claim 21,
The monitoring step is
Method characterized in that the step of providing the livestock information in which the increase in the movement activity exceeding a reference value is confirmed as livestock information in an estrous state.

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