Acoustic Real-time Sensor for IngestiveBehaviour of Grazing Cattle

MARTINEZ RAU, L; DENIZ N; CHELOTTI J; KLER P; GIOVANINI L

San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca

Congreso; IX Congreso de Microelectrónica Aplicada; 2018

Facultad de Tecnología y Ciencias Aplicadas, Universidad de Catamarca

The increment of food market requirements and competitiveness makes that industry needs more accurate sensing and monitoring tools. Due to the large temporal dynamics necessary to monitor some animal behaviors, the autonomy and storage capacity of the devices involved becomes critical. In this work, we introduce a device specifically developed for on-line monitoring, quantifying and recording the feeding patterns of dairy cows. The prototype consists of an embed-15ded circuit that records and analyzes the sounds produced by the animal to detect, classify and quantify the events related with the feeding behavior. It implements an algorithm recently developed, which was adapted for its execution in a microcontroller based embedded system. A microcontroller with power management technology, com-20bined with high efficiency harvesting power supply and power management firmware, enable long-term operation. The technology presented within this publication is protected under international patent application PCT/IB2016/057627