Wireless data management system for environmental monitoring in livestock buildings
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Article Title | Wireless data management system for environmental monitoring in livestock buildings |
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ERA Journal ID | 212812 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Gray, James (Author), Banhazi, Thomas M. (Author) and Kist, Alexander A. (Author) |
Journal Title | Information Processing in Agriculture |
Journal Citation | 4 (1), pp. 1-17 |
Number of Pages | 17 |
Year | 2017 |
Publisher | KeAi Publishing Communications Ltd. |
Place of Publication | Netherlands |
ISSN | 2097-0153 |
2214-3173 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inpa.2016.12.001 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214317316300348 |
Abstract | The impact of air quality on the health, welfare and productivity of livestock needs to be considered, especially when livestock are kept in enclosed buildings. The monitoring of such environmental factors allows for the development of appropriate strategies to reduce detrimental effects of sub-optimal air quality on the respiratory health of both livestock and farmers. In 2009, an environmental monitoring system was designed, developed and tested that allowed for the monitoring of a number of airborne pollutants. One limitation of the system was the manual collection of logged data from each unit. This paper identifies limitations of the current environmental monitoring system and suggests a range of networking technologies that can be used to increase usability. Consideration is taken for the networking of environmental monitoring units, as well as the collection of recorded data. Furthermore, the design and development of a software system that is used to collate and store recorded environmental data from multiple farms is explored. In order to design such a system, simplified software engineering processes and methodologies have been utilised. The main steps taken in order to complete the project were requirements elicitation with clients, requirements analysis, system design, implementation and finally testing. The outcome of the project provided a potential prototype for improving the environmental monitoring system and analysis informing the benefit of the implementation. |
Keywords | sensors; environmental monitoring; networking; software engineering |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 300302. Animal management |
Byline Affiliations | Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences |
National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q3x81/wireless-data-management-system-for-environmental-monitoring-in-livestock-buildings
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