The Smart Farm system was successfully tested

MIET scientists have completed testing of a cattle monitoring system based on wearable sensors. “The Smart Farm system has successfully passed tests, which proved that its use increased productivity (an increase in milk yield by 2-3 liters of milk per day). There were eight cows participated in the experiment,” said Vladimir Zhmylev, an assistant at the Institute of Microdevices and Control Systems of MIET.

The main element of the system is the bolus. The device is a capsule with sensors and the "sleeping" battery. The capsule is placed in the animal's stomach and detects its temperature, diet, drinking and sleep patterns, and the characteristics of some internal organs. The cow does not experience any discomfort. In addition, the system includes a lameness sensor that measures movement activity using an accelerometer, and a navigation module. Information from the sensors is sent to the user's PC.

During the tests, the best results were shown by the algorithm that detects the number of animal drinking acts.

According to the developers, last year an analogue device costed of 35,000 rubles per bolus. The device proposed by Russian scientists will cost 10,000 rubles less. Also, the price will depend on the number and type of sensors, as well as the number of units in the batch.

“Together with colleagues from the Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center VIM, we are working on the issue of integrating our database and algorithms into third-party software,” said Vladimir Zhmylev.