What is intelligence?
The advancement of technology, information and communication, followed by the digitization of transactions, has covered all aspects of human life. The livestock production sector, which is one of the essential and daily needs of societies, is becoming more intelligent day by day.
In a word, the intelligentization of animal husbandry means increasing the potential of the global supply of milk and meat.
From the last 60 years until now in the United States of America, the advantages and disadvantages of the intelligentization of livestock farming have been investigated. Countless experimental data have been collected and analyzed. Due to the increase in technology since the early 2000s, and with the production of the first animal sensors and the expansion of technology and the Internet, intelligentization in the sense of remote access and control, data processing and calculations began.
Intelligentization in animal husbandry leads to greater control of livestock and improved production along with increasing animal welfare and reducing management tensions; This has been made possible through smart sensors capable of acquiring, storing and analyzing data.
In fact, intelligent animal husbandry is not the same as modern animal husbandry. In the modern and industrial method, up-to-date tools are used, which improve the speed and quality of work, but in intelligent animal husbandry, the information of the tools is recorded and analyzed automatically or semi-automatically.
For many years, intelligent systems have been used for the production sector in industrial farms. Like using automatic milking machines. But in the discussion of animal mentoring, artificial intelligence production companies have performed weaker. Advances in sensor technology have led to improvements in accurate measurement of livestock behaviors, physiological conditions, and increased livestock productivity.
Smartening livestock farms in different sectors such as aerial monitoring of pastures, monitoring the location and activity of livestock, early detection of estrus, lameness, and physical characteristics, checking milk production and composition, calving time, amount of feed consumption, checking greenhouse gas emissions. are implemented. Artificial intelligence lacks human intelligence and everything revolves around numbers and comparing them to each other through mathematical relationships and covariates. Therefore, by collecting data and modeling it, it creates a combination and shows what state the animal is in.
The tools and devices of artificial intelligence and intelligent livestock control can be installed on the livestock, have a strategic position or have the capacity to measure on large scales.
What are the benefits of intelligentization?
One of the most important advantages of intelligent monitoring, after reducing human error and more correct comparison of livestock conditions, is the storage of statistical data and easy access to them.
For example, in the measurement of body score by eye method, only a table of physical characteristics of the animal’s body is filled, and although these notes are always available and archived, no image is recorded that can later find the error rate and ensure the necessary certainty. had results.
Ease of monitoring and productivity methods is another advantage of humanization. For example, the convenience and increase in speed of milking with the automatic method compared to the manual method, the statistical investigation of the number of aborted fetuses using the software method, the speed of recording the physical score of animals and more detailed analyzes and having more time to analyze and check the recorded images compared to Visual observation, reduction of lost estrus due to the use of tools compared to older methods, the ability to monitor and control livestock and workers from a distance, and…
These tools are easy to work with and an operator can easily be trained. Data analysis is done by software.
For the production process to be economical, cows should spend a lot of time of the day eating and ruminating, if the monitoring is intelligent and faster, the cattle will spend less time on their feet and rest more.
Operating costs are reduced with the method of intelligentization, the quality of the produced product is increased, and as a result, more profit is obtained with the method of intelligentizing the farm.
The costs of intelligentization may seem heavy at first, but in the long run, they will be profitable due to the profits that animal husbandry earns.
Reflection:
The value of smart animal husbandry is determined over time, so it requires a lot of patience. The general view of ranchers and farmers is changing to the use of intelligence because the use of the Internet platform is increasing rapidly. So, understanding this issue can increase the competitive advantage among livestock farmers, which is a principle of husbandry.
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