Newton Fund - LIVEQuest: A self-contained wearable Internet-of-Things System for Precision Livestock Agriculture

牛顿基金 - LIVEQuest：用于精准畜牧农业的独立可穿戴物联网系统

• 批准号: 102873
• 金额: $ 35.69万
• 依托单位: QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=102873
• 关键词: Newton; Fund; LIVEQuest; self; contained

Worldwide demand for meat and animal products is set to increase by c.40% over the next decade; China's total meat production quadrupled in the last 20 years due to rising demand from a rapidly growing population. However, environmental/public health issues are becoming more prominent in China (as with all emerging economies), and sustainable intensification of livestock agriculture is a key concern of Chinese policy-makers & stakeholders. This project merges a team of interdisciplinary experts in animal behaviour, Internet-of-Things (IoT),wearable computing & veterinary diagnostics to develop a highly innovative Smart Wearable IoT platform and Decision Support System for precision livestock farming (with an initial focus on poultry). A fully-networked Smart farmers' boot is proposed to assess animal welfare and farm environment at flock eye-level, allowing ubiquitous, non-obstructive, automated data collection. Guangxi province farm data will standardise animal health and welfare indices for China.This will improve farm productivity, animal welfare, smallholder livelihood and consumer nutrition, contributing to economic development and welfare of the Chinese population.

未来十年，全球对肉类和动物产品的需求将增长约40%；中国的肉类总产量在过去20年里翻了两番，原因是快速增长的人口对肉类的需求不断增长。然而，环境/公共卫生问题在中国(与所有新兴经济体一样)正变得更加突出，畜牧业的可持续集约化是中国政策制定者和利益相关者的关键关切。该项目融合了动物行为、物联网(IoT)、可穿戴计算和兽医诊断方面的跨学科专家团队，以开发高度创新的Smart可穿戴物联网平台和决策支持系统，用于精准家畜养殖(最初专注于家禽)。提出了一种完全联网的Smart Farmers‘s Boot，用于在羊群眼睛水平评估动物福利和农场环境，允许无处不在的、无障碍的、自动化的数据收集。广西省农场数据将标准化中国的动物健康和福利指数。这将改善农场生产率、动物福利、小农生计和消费者营养，为经济发展和中国人口的福利做出贡献。