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Artificial Intelligence Cattle and Sheep Health Monitoring System

• Artificial intelligence monitors your animals 24/7 through cameras installed in your barn or stable. Whether you are with your animals or not, it generates a health report for your animals at any moment.
• It records how much your animals have lain down, how much feed they have eaten, how much water they have drunk, how much time they have spent at the brush, how much they have ruminated, how many meters they have moved, and whether they have shown mounting behavior, etc.
• Based on these movements, it provides you with information about the individual health status of your animals.
• You can set alarms for specific movements, and the system will alert you if any animal meets these criteria.
• Thanks to these alarms, you don’t need to sit at the computer and check how the animal is moving.
• If you wish, you can be informed of these alarms via SMS, even if you are not near your animals, thanks to the SMS module.
• By entering 5 different phone numbers into the SMS module, you can ensure that other farm personnel are also informed about these alarms.
• Artificial intelligence integrates with other modules, allowing you to monitor your animal’s health and estrus status from a single screen.
• While monitoring your animals, the system also provides outputs according to Welfare Quality criteria, allowing you to observe your animals’ happiness and health levels.
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Artificial Intelligence Cattle Estrus Tracking System

• Artificial intelligence monitors your animals 24/7 through cameras installed in your barn or stable. Whether you are with your animals or not, you will be notified the moment your animals come into estrus.
• You can view graphs of how much feed your animals have eaten, how much they have ruminated, how much they have walked, how many times and for how long they have drunk water, how much they have lain down and gotten up, and mounting attempts.
• You can view the exact start time of the animal’s estrus in hours and minutes.
• You can see the exact time for the most accurate insemination.
• For hidden estrus detection, you can review the animal’s activity over the past 21 days and accurately detect hidden estrus.
• You can monitor animal health and measure your animals’ activities.
• Thanks to 24/7 recording, you can watch the animal’s estrus signs in accelerated video.
• You can see where your animal is located in the barn or stable or which bed it is lying on through a schematic.
• Through thermal cameras, you can view your animals’ real-time body temperatures in graphs.
• The cameras used in this system should be selected with a 120° angle.
• If your animal comes into estrus, the system will highlight the animal in a different color to help you identify the correct animal.
• For the most accurate results, approximately every 100 square meters of your animal’s living area should be monitored with at least 3-4 cameras.
• If your animals are to be monitored 24/7, it is important not to forget the importance of night lighting.

Artificial Intelligence Cattle and Small Ruminant Weight Tracking System

• The system applicable to cattle and small ruminants is made with LIDAR-equipped 4K (3D) special cameras.
• It measures all parameters of the passing animal within milliseconds by shooting from approximately 3 meters high for cattle and 2 meters high for small ruminants.
• Additionally, if desired, a thermal camera can be added to the system to detect the animal’s body temperature.
• If desired, it can identify your animals by reading their electronic ear tags or by reading the numbers on the straps you attach to their necks, which are approximately 4 cm in size and commonly used on farms.
• It records all measurements with the identified ID via WiFi (local network) or the internet into your database.
• The detected measurements include hip height, withers height, back height, tailhead height, chest depth, chest circumference, head length, head width, ear measurements, body length, and most importantly, body weight, recording the animal’s general measurements with millimeter precision.
• It is very important for the accuracy of the measurements that your animals remain calm and stress-free while passing through the "Ghost Scale." Therefore, do not chase your animals or make any movements that might scare them while they pass through the scale.
• This stress factor is even more critical for small ruminants. As is known, small ruminants are more active and more stressed. To prevent this from affecting the measurement and weighing process, passing them through corridors like vaccination lanes and then through the "Ghost Scale" will yield more accurate results. If necessary, animals should be sent one by one through a small gate that does not enter the scale’s field of view.
• It has no mechanical parts, so your animals cannot break or damage the system. It serves for a very long time and requires no maintenance.
• If you choose the plug-and-play product, you will have no installation costs. Simply mount the 3D LIDAR camera at the specified height in the area where the animals pass with 2-3 screws and plug it in. The system will automatically connect to the camera and start the weighing process.
• In the plug-and-play system, there is no cable connection between the 3D LIDAR camera and the computer. The system recognizes each other through its own local WiFi network and transfers measurement data and video streams seamlessly through this WiFi network. It can communicate over a distance of approximately 25 meters in open areas.
• In the plug-and-play system, you can perform measurements with multiple 3D LIDAR cameras. If you have a large number of animals, you can create 4 measurement points to complete the measurement and weighing processes more quickly. If more than 4 measurement points are needed, we also have solutions for that.
• In the Ghost Scale, separate systems are used for small ruminants and cattle. Small ruminants and cattle cannot be measured and weighed with the same system.
• For the Small Ruminant Ghost Scale, you can choose our queueing corridor made of 2mm box profiles, use your existing vaccination lane if available, or, as preferred by many farms, manufacture a wooden vaccination lane to solve the problem of queuing animals.
• If you want to manufacture the queueing corridor yourself, we can send you dimensioned drawings for free. This way, you won’t have any problems while queuing your animals.
• To identify your animals and record each measurement in the database, and later track your animal’s development, you can obtain neck numbers and straps from us. If you prefer, you can use numbering straps available on the market. The system will automatically recognize these numbers as well.
• During the camera installation, to ensure you don’t have trouble determining if the camera angle is correct, the camera will project a laser cross (+) on the ground where the animals will walk, showing its position. With this cross, you will understand whether your camera is mounted at the correct angle.

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Important NOTE: Direct exposure of the laser beam to the eye at close range may damage your eyes!!! Do not look directly at the laser!!!

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The importance of frequent weighing of animals in dairy cattle farms;

The transition period (three weeks before calving to three weeks after calving) is considered the most critical phase in the life of dairy cows. During this period, animals undergo many anatomical, physiological, hormonal, and metabolic changes. Therefore, it is the period of greatest concern in terms of nutrition and the emergence of metabolic and infectious disorders.

Over the past few decades, advancements in general management, nutrition, health, and animal breeding have significantly increased the productivity of cows. However, some experts have associated increases in milk yield with declines in pregnancy rates. Experts state that high-yielding cows have a greater negative energy balance (NEB), and the magnitude of this is directly related to reproductive failure. Considering that the ideal calving interval should be 13-14 months, cows need to become pregnant within 120-150 days after calving, and those who fail to meet this target are more likely to be culled after a few attempts.

The return of ovarian activity after calving is closely related to the NEB common in early lactation. This is due to the low intake capacity, which causes energy input to be lower than production and maintenance demands. Therefore, cows use their body reserves to meet the energy requirements for lactation.

Since most cows go through an NEB period and then recover from this physiological state, some experts rightly propose the "adaptation to NEB" theory. The dairy industry traditionally adopts body condition scoring (BCS) to assess live weight loss in early lactation. However, recent research suggests that BCS may lack the sensitivity to detect differences in visceral fat accumulation, which can increase the risk of peripartal disease and discomfort.

One way to determine the individual adaptation level of fresh cows to NEB is to measure body weight changes, as cows with excessive mobilization of body reserves are at higher risk of metabolic disorders. Weak animals have poor reproductive performance and lower milk yield.

Frequent weighing of dairy cows is crucial for increasing productivity.

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