FLOX-box - On-Prem AI-Driven Poultry Welfare, Performance & Ammonia Control

Covid-19大流行极大地加剧了英国肉鸡行业的地方性劳动力短缺，同时强调了人/牲畜相互作用的真实生物安全风险。离开欧洲，英国将向来自美国的廉价、低福利的鸡肉敞开大门。这给英国肉鸡养殖户带来了很大的压力，他们要么需要竞争到“福利底线”，要么找到一个解决方案，在保持和提高他们的福利标准的同时竞争。对家禽需求的增加也意味着农民正在建设更近的居民区和脆弱的SSSI生态系统。在赫里福德和什罗普郡这两个最大的家禽产区，情况尤其如此。传感器系统、自动化、数据科学和图像处理算法的最新进展和成本的下降，使人们对传统农业进行了彻底的反思。该项目旨在提高高福利鸡生产的成本效益，并帮助英国养鸡业继续可持续发展。

The Covid-19 pandemic has greatly exacerbated an endemic labour shortage in the UK broiler industry while underscoring the very real biosecurity risk of human/livestock interaction. In leaving Europe, the UK is opening itself up to cheaper, low-welfare chicken from the USA. This has put a lot of pressure on UK broiler farmers who either need to race to the 'welfare bottom', or find a solution to compete while maintaining and improving their welfare standards. Increased demand for poultry has also meant farmers are building nearer residential locations and vulnerable SSSI ecosystems. This is particularly the case in the two largest poultry producing regions -- Hereford and Shropshire.The recent advances in, and falling costs of sensor systems, automation, data science and image processing algorithms enables a radical rethink of conventional farming. This project aims to make high-welfare chicken production more cost effective and help the UK chicken industry continue to grow -- sustainably.