Precision livestock farming '07 papers presented at the 3rd European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming, Skiathos, Greece, 3-6 June 2007 (Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2007)
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Editorial; Keynote; Precision Livestock Farming: creating order beyond control; Section 1 -- Feed quality management; Computer controlled delivery of liquid diets for growing and finishing pigs for precision phase-feeding; Front face fluorescence spectroscopy coupled with chemometric tools for monitoring the oxidation of semi-hard cheeses throughout ripening; Automatic individual feeding systems for dairy cows: observations of facility utilization; Design of quality control charts for monitoring the production process of consumption eggs in order to improve egg quality
The potential of near infrared and fluorescence spectroscopies combined with chemometrics for the authentication of food products: example of Emmental cheeses produced in EuropeSection 2 -- Sensor technology in animal husbandry; Analysis of sensor data patterns from an automatic milking system for abnormal milk detection; The classification of herbivore jaw movements using acoustic analysis; Potentials of GPS-collar application in pasture farming; Monitoring cow behavior parameters based on received signal strength using wireless sensor networks
A system for contact-free measurement of respiration rate of dairy cowsIntelligent grazing management using wireless sensor networks; Characterisation of cough sounds to monitor Pasteurella infection in pigs; Frequency analysis for real-time recognition of sick pigs and disease monitoring in pig houses; Acquisition techniques for dairy cow gait analysis; A practical way to detect approaching calving of the dairy cow by a behaviour sensor; Real-time health monitor using cough localization
Wireless Access to Sensor Populations: potential applications for herd health control, elderly care and road transportUsing heart rate monitoring: 1. as an indicator of energy status and stress in ruminants; 2. to calculate the energy cost of activity from simultaneous records of heart rate, GPS and motion sensors; Section 3 -- Environmental effects of precision livestock farming; Environment, health and welfare monitoring in precision livestock farming of dairy cattle; Increasing economic profit of dairy production utilizing individual real time process data