Mobile Phones on Sheep

A recent paper has been published by Zainab Al-Rubaye on Detection on Lameness in Sheep using wearable sensor technology (at the moment an Android phone)

Al-Rubaye Z., Al-Sherbaz A., McCormick W., Turner S. (2018) Sensor Data Classification for the Indication of Lameness in Sheep. In: Romdhani I., Shu L., Takahiro H., Zhou Z., Gordon T., Zeng D. (eds) Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing. CollaborateCom 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 252. Springer, Cham

• DOI  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00916-8_29
  

Abstract
Lameness is a vital welfare issue in most sheep farming countries, including the UK. The pre-detection at the farm level could prevent the disease from becoming chronic. The development of wearable sensor technologies enables the idea of remotely monitoring the changes in animal movements which relate to lameness. In this study, 3D-acceleration, 3D-orientation, and 3D-linear acceleration sensor data were recorded at ten samples per second via the sensor attached to sheep neck collar. This research aimed at determining the best accuracy among various supervised machine learning techniques which can predict the early signs of lameness while the sheep are walking on a flat field. The most influencing predictors for lameness indication were also addressed here. The experimental results revealed that the Decision Tree classifier has the highest accuracy of 75.46%, and the orientation sensor data (angles) around the neck are the strongest predictors to differentiate among severely lame, mildly lame and sound classes of sheep.


More details available at:
 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327865785_Sensor_Data_Classification_for_the_Indication_of_Lameness_in_Sheep_13th_International_Conference_CollaborateCom_2017_Edinburgh_UK_December_11-13_2017_Proceedings


Relate Links

• Prototype Ovine Disease Detection - Vet Times
• Fitbit for Sheep

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