A Hybrid Visual Stochastic Approach to Dairy Cow Monitoring System

Abstract

In the era of fourth industrial revolution or Industry 4.0 together with the second information and communication technology era, the way we human beings live, act and do are always challenging by the waves of new technologies such as Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing so on and so forth. These new technologies also drive life science, academic, business and production industries for better sides. Among them, one of challenging and innovative technology in life science industry is precision dairy farming which has been pushed into frontline topic among the academia and industry farm managers. Generally speaking, the precision dairy farming can be defined as the use of technologies advanced or simple to analyze the physical and mental behaviors of an individual cows for specifying health and profitability indicators so that overall management and farm performance are to be improved. In other words, the precision dairy farming will focus on welfare and health care for making the farm returns optimal through the use of technologies. Here, technologies may range from daily milk recording to automatic body conditions scoring for individual cows and an accurate prediction of calving time and reporting unusual occurrences during the delivery times.