Abstract:
The ubiquitous Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have advanced in
livestock production and management. This paper describes design and
implementation of low cost Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) IoT solution for
management of farm animals, which can count, identify, and localize animals in the
farm. It is aimed at enhancing livestock welfare and production. The solution uses
wearable animal collar and central devices capable of communicating information
pertaining to specific animals to a central BLE device. Collected data is analysed and
displayed locally to a user. Therefore, we report the development process of the
solution, experiments on the technology and results. In addition, we show the
feasibility of the solution in a case study undertaken managing sheep and goats at
Dedan Kimathi University of Technology farm, dairy section and future
advancements on the solution for monitoring other parameters such as activity using
machine learning and scaling
