FarmSense: Ensuring sustainability of pig farming with automated monitoring using machine vision and volatile organic compound sensors.

* 什么是FarmSense？* FarmSense是一个智能的用户友好型平台，将最先进的图像/传感器技术与人工智能（AI）相结合，以支持农民及其顾问优化畜牧生产，同时确保最高的动物福利标准。与传统的劳动密集型养殖方法相比，我们的智能监测系统会根据动物的昼夜模式持续分析动物的生长、行为和气体分布沿着。我们的人工智能系统学习如何自动检测模式的任何变化，这些变化表明存在早期疾病发作、咬尾巴或异常饮食行为等问题。然后，系统向农场工人提供早期屏幕警报/提示。因此，FarmSense的24/7监控为农民提供了一个自主的畜牧工具：一个“免提”的生猪生产持续预警系统，可以很容易地集成到英国猪肉供应链中。它如何工作？**我们的方法基于智能3D摄像头，可以监控动物的生长和行为;气体传感器可以检测动物在疾病开始发生时排放的气体和蒸汽。通过机器学习方法（一种从数据中学习的人工智能）分析产生的数据，以识别影响个体动物的常见健康和福利问题。集成到_“VetSupport+"_软件（硕腾公司）中，它可以通知农民牛群中发生的任何异常或警报，并提供早期纠正措施的建议，以便做出快速有效的养殖管理决策。**有什么好处？**以前的研究[1-4]表明，我们的技术测量的参数会影响其他物种的健康和生产力，包括家禽。利用我们的技术，我们预测使用FarmSense减少疾病和废物将导致猪肉供应链的生产力提高10-15%。事实上，我们在目前部署的摄像头系统中观察到了8%的收入增长;我们预计我们的集成系统将实现更高的收益。最后，我们的预警系统将根据农业转型计划减少畜牧业的碳足迹，从而为英国的净零战略做出显著贡献。谁可以使用FarmSense？** FarmSense最初将专注于养猪业，以证明将“精准畜牧业”应用于猪肉生产的好处。然而，FarmSense将很容易适应其他牲畜，如牛和家禽，以提高农业效率，最大限度地减少浪费，并为全球气候变化问题做出积极贡献。

**What is FarmSense?**FarmSense is an intelligent user-friendly platform that brings together state-of-the-art image/sensor technologies combined with artificial intelligence (AI) to support farmers and their advisors in optimising livestock production whilst assuring the highest animal welfare standards. Compared to traditional labour-intensive farming methods where animals are visited periodically during the working day, our smart monitoring system continuously analyses animal growth, behaviour and gas profiles along with the animal's day and night patterns. Our AI system learns how to automatically detect any changes in pattern indicating problems such as early disease onset, tail biting or abnormal eating/drinking behaviours. The system then delivers early on-screen alerts/prompts to farm workers. FarmSense's 24/7 monitoring thus provides farmers with an autonomous stockman tool: a 'hands-free' continuous early warning system for pig production that can be readily integrated into the UK pork supply chain.**How does it work?**Our approach is based on smart 3D cameras that monitor animal growth and behaviours; and gas sensors that detect gases and vapours that animals emit when diseases start to take hold. The resulting data are analysed by machine learning methods (a type of AI that learns from data) to identify common health and welfare problems affecting individual animals. Integrated into the _"VetSupport+"_ software (Zoetis), it notifies farmers of anything unusual or alarming occurring within a herd and provides suggestions for early corrective action so that quick and effective farming management decisions can be made.**What are the benefits?**Previous studies \[1-4\] have shown that the parameters measured by our technologies affect health and productivity in other species, including poultry. Using our technology, we predict that disease and waste reduction using FarmSense will lead to a 10-15% increase in productivity in the pork supply chain \[7\]. Indeed, we've seen 8% revenue gains observed in current deployments of our camera systems; we expect that our integrated system will achieve higher gains. Finally, our early warning system stands to reduce the carbon footprint within the livestock industry in line with the Agricultural Transition Plan, thus markedly contributing to the UK's Net Zero Strategy.**Who can use FarmSense?**FarmSense will initially focus on pig farming to exemplify the benefits of applying 'Precision Livestock Farming' to pork production. However, FarmSense will be readily adaptable across other livestock, such as cattle and poultry, to improve farming efficiency, minimise waste and positively contribute to the global issue of climate change.