EQUIPRO - Equine Quantifiers: User-Interactive Performance Rating for Operators (RESUBMISSION)

每年80亿英镑的马术运动和娱乐部门为20多万人提供就业机会，已经非常成熟。英国在马匹福利和管理方面的专业知识在世界范围内得到认可，这反映在英国每年超过4亿英镑的出口上。目前，英国有超过100万匹马。在一个单匹马价值可达数百万甚至数千万英镑的行业中，这些马的生理特征、表现和健康状况对马主、育种者、投资者、买家和运动休闲产业都至关重要。CRATRO将开发一种结合了专业定制传感器和先进软件分析计算机软件包的CRATRO系统。该系统的设计将提供一种大大超过目前所采用的方法和技术的马的性能/健康评估能力，使用该系统将允许最终用户（例如马的所有者或潜在购买者/投资者、兽医）获得详细和客观的健康和性能评估。此外，性能特征可以通过这样的方式进行识别和监测，以帮助训练策略，纠正或改善与马行为相关的参数，甚至与遗传/育种数据相关联。由于个体马的高价值，以及它们作为相当重要的娱乐商业部门的组成部分的价值，该项目将为英国的服务部门以及国内外市场的技术和专业知识特许经营/许可提供大量商机。在兽医领域，专业的马评估可能很昂贵，1000英镑的费用并不罕见。这些服务的能力将大大增强，并有可能将这些系统出售给兽医实践，并对兽医实践产生影响，显然有可能为Equiprofile Ltd和这些最终用户创造商机。这是一个行业和学术合作，汇集了Equiprofile Ltd的马生理学专家，以及传感器，系统和分析方面的技术专长，在约克大学。这种技能的组合是必不可少的，以实现在马的评估和评价技术的阶跃变化。

The £8bn/yr equine sport and recreation sector, providing employment for over 200,000 people, is extremely well established. UK expertise in horse well-being and management is recognised worldwide, and this is reflected in UK exports of over £400m/yr. There are over 1 million horses in the UK at present. In a sector where the value of single horses can be estimated in millions, and even tens of millions of pounds, the physiological characteristics, performance, and well-being, of such horses is therefore of huge importance to owners, breeders, investors, buyers, and the sport-leisure industry.EQUIPRO will develop a combination of specialised bespoke sensors, and an advanced software analytics computer software package, the EQUIPRO system. This will be engineered to deliver an equine performance/health assessment capability which significantly exceeds the methods and techniques employed at the present time.Use of the EQUIPRO system will permit end users (for example, owners or potential purchasers/investors of horses, veterinarian practitioners) to be given detailed and objective health and performance assessments. Furthermore, performance traits can be identified and monitored in such a way as to assist with training strategies, to correct or improve parameters relating to the horse behaviour, or even to correlate with genetic/breeding data.Because of the high value of individual horses, and their value as components of a quite significant recreational business sector, this project will enable substantial business opportunities both as a UK based service sector, and in terms of franchising/licensing of the technology and expertise in home and overseas markets.In the veterinary field, professional equine evaluations can be expensive, with £1k fees not unusual. The ability for these services to be significantly enhanced by EQUIPRO, and the potential then for such systems to be sold to, and have impact in, veterinary practices, has obvious potential to create business opportunities both for Equiprofile Ltd, and for those end-users.This is an industry-academic collaboration, bringing together equine physiology experts at Equiprofile Ltd, and technical expertise in sensors, systems, and analytics, at the University of York. Such a combination of skills is essential to achieve a step-change in equine assessment and evaluation technology.