Monitoring trough visits of growing-finishing pigs with UHF-RFID

Adrion, Felix; Kapun, Anita; Eckert, Florian; Holland, Eva-Maria; Staiger, Max; Götz, Sven; Gallmann, Eva

doi:10.1016/j.compag.2017.11.036

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“…The average performance (mean ± SD) of the APMS units was 99.83% ± 0.05 % for sensitivity, 99.93% ± 0.05% for specificity, 99.67% ± 0.13% for precision, and 99.91% ± 0.05% for accuracy. The developed APMS in this study demonstrated a much-improved performance compared to other RFID systems applied in animal behavior research to date (Adrion et al, 2018;Barnes et al, 2018;Brown-Brandl et al, 2018;Li et al, 2017). First, with the customized antennas, attachment of the transponders, and load cell data correction, this system achieved very high performance indicators.…”

Section: Apms Performancementioning

confidence: 91%

“…To date, RFID is one of the most popular technologies that has been used to identify individual animals. It has been applied in animal behavior research of pigs (Adrion et al, 2018;Brown-Brandl et al, 2018;Maselyne et al, 2014), chicken (Campbell et al, 2017;Li et al, 2017;Li et al, 2018), cattle (Brown-Brandl and Eigenberg, 2015;Menzies et al, 2018), and sheep (Barnes et al, 2018;Doughty et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

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An RFID-Based Automated Individual Perching Monitoring System for Group-Housed Poultry

KaiLao¹,

Liu²,

Xin³

et al. 2019

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Abstract. Perching is a natural behavior of poultry. Considerable research has been done to explore the relationship between group overall perch usage and well-being of laying hens. To quantify the potential cause-effect relationship on individual hens with different health or well-being status (e.g., keel bone deformation, foot pad lesion, social ranking) in a group, it is necessary to identify the perching behavior of individual birds. However, continuously monitoring individual birds in a group poses considerable challenges. To enable such research and potential commercial application, this study developed and validated a radio frequency identification (RFID) based automated perching monitoring system (APMS) for characterizing individual perching behaviors of group-housed poultry. The APMS consisted of an RFID module, a load cell module, and a round wooden perch. The RFID module was comprised of a high-frequency RFID reader, three customized rectangular antennas placed under the perch, and RFID transponders attached to the birds. The load cell module was comprised of a data acquisition system and two load cells supporting both ends of the perch. The daily number of perch visits (PV) and perching duration (PD) for individual birds were used to delineate perching behavior. Three identical experimental pens, five hens per pen, were equipped with the monitoring system. Two RFID transponders were attached to each hen (one per leg), and a distinct color was marked on the bird’s head for video or visual identification and validation. Performance of the APMS was validated by comparing the system outputs with manual observation and labeling over an entire day. Sensitivity and specificity of the system were shown to improve from 97.77% and 99.88%, respectively when using only the RFID module to 99.83% and 99.93% when incorporating weight information from the load cell module. Using this system, we conducted a preliminary trial on the relationship of perching behavior and body weight of laying hens, which revealed little effect of body weight but considerable variability in perching behavior among the individual hens. The study demonstrated that the APMS had excellent performance in measuring perching behaviors of individual birds in a group. The APMS offers great potential for delineating individual differences in perching behavior among hens with different social status or health conditions in a group setting. Keywords: Individual perching behavior, Laying hen, Load cell, Precision livestock farming, RFID, Welfare.

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Section: Apms Performancementioning

confidence: 91%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An RFID-Based Automated Individual Perching Monitoring System for Group-Housed Poultry

KaiLao¹,

Liu²,

Xin³

et al. 2019

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“…The developed APMS in this study showed a much improved performance compared to other RFID systems applied in animal behavior research to date (Li et al, 2017, Adrion et al, 2017, Adrion et al, 2018, Barnes et al, 2018. First and foremost, with the customized antennas, attachment of the transponders, and load cell data correction (or even without the weigh-based correction), this system demonstrates a set of superior performance indicators.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 88%

“…To date, one of the most popular technologies for identifying individual animals is the RFID technology. It has been applied in animal behavior research of pigs (Adrion et al, 2018), poultry (Li et al, 2017), cattle (Adrion et al, 2017), and sheep (Barnes et al, 2018).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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A RFID-Based Monitoring System for Characterization of Perching Behaviors of Individual Poultry

Wang

Liu

Xin

et al. 2018

10th International Livestock Environment Symposium (ILES X)

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Perching is a natural behavior of poultry. However, it is difficult to distinguish individual birds in a large group in order to relate perching behavior to health condition or productivity. To enable such research, this study developed and validated a radio frequency identification (RFID)-based automated perching monitoring system (APMS) for characterizing individual perching behaviors of group-housed poultry. The APMS consisted of a RFID module, a load cell module, and a round wooden perch. The RFID module was comprised of a high-frequency RFID reader, three customized rectangular antennas, and multiple RFID transponders. The load cell module was comprised of a data acquisition system and two load cells supporting the two ends of the perch. Daily number of perch visits (PV) and perching duration (PD) of individual birds were used to delineate perching behavior. Three identical experimental pens, five hens per pen, were equipped with the monitoring system. Two RFID transponders were attached to each hen (one per leg) and a distinct color was marked on the bird's head for video or visual identification. Performance of the APMS was validated by comparing the system outputs with manual observation/labeling over an entire day. Sensitivity and specificity of the system were shown to improve from 97.77% and 99.88%, respectively, when using only the RFID module, to 99.83% and 99.93%, respectively, when incorporating weight information from the load cell module. This study revealed that the APMS has an excellent performance in measuring perching behaviors of individual birds in a group. The APMS offers great potentials for delineating differences in perching behavior among hens with different social status or health conditions in a group setting.

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“…The feeding visits of growing-finishing pigs at a trough are monitored automatically having passive electronic ear tags for animal identification and a high-frequency RFID system that detects multiple pigs feeding simultaneously using the anti-collision algorithm. By this way, the activity and behavior measurements in livestock are measured [6].…”

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Smart Security System for Health Centers

Gayathri¹,

Kanna²,

Umamakeswari³

2018

IJET

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In the modern world, Radio Frequency identification system plays a major role that automatically identifies and tracks tag attached to an object. RFID technology has been extensively used in many areas including agriculture, manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, etc. RFID system can be used in hospitals to increase the safety of patients by providing an RFID tag to the persons who visit them including doctors, nurses, and relatives. This method can be used along with a door lock but in the case of emergency, it becomes risky. Also, the same method can be used for secured access to pharmaceutical supplies which avoid illegal access to the medicines. Sensor network which is the core of IoT technology can be integrated with the RFID system to make it more efficient to be deployed in several application services. In this paper, a solution is proposed that can integrate the RFID system with the IoT technology by using IR sensors which help to get rid of illegal entry or access in hospitals.

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Monitoring trough visits of growing-finishing pigs with UHF-RFID

Cited by 55 publications

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An RFID-Based Automated Individual Perching Monitoring System for Group-Housed Poultry

An RFID-Based Automated Individual Perching Monitoring System for Group-Housed Poultry

A RFID-Based Monitoring System for Characterization of Perching Behaviors of Individual Poultry

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