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Combination of Multi-Agent Systems and Wireless Sensor Networks for the Monitoring of Cattle

Precision breeding techniques have been widely used to optimize expenses and increase livestock yields. Notwithstanding, the joint use of heterogeneous sensors and artificial intelligence techniques for the simultaneous analysis or detection of different problems that cattle may present has not been...

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Autores principales: Barriuso, Alberto L., Villarrubia González, Gabriel, De Paz, Juan F., Lozano, Álvaro, Bajo, Javier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5795335/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29301310
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18010108
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author Barriuso, Alberto L.
Villarrubia González, Gabriel
De Paz, Juan F.
Lozano, Álvaro
Bajo, Javier
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description Precision breeding techniques have been widely used to optimize expenses and increase livestock yields. Notwithstanding, the joint use of heterogeneous sensors and artificial intelligence techniques for the simultaneous analysis or detection of different problems that cattle may present has not been addressed. This study arises from the necessity to obtain a technological tool that faces this state of the art limitation. As novelty, this work presents a multi-agent architecture based on virtual organizations which allows to deploy a new embedded agent model in computationally limited autonomous sensors, making use of the Platform for Automatic coNstruction of orGanizations of intElligent Agents (PANGEA). To validate the proposed platform, different studies have been performed, where parameters specific to each animal are studied, such as physical activity, temperature, estrus cycle state and the moment in which the animal goes into labor. In addition, a set of applications that allow farmers to remotely monitor the livestock have been developed.
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spelling pubmed-57953352018-02-13 Combination of Multi-Agent Systems and Wireless Sensor Networks for the Monitoring of Cattle Barriuso, Alberto L. Villarrubia González, Gabriel De Paz, Juan F. Lozano, Álvaro Bajo, Javier Sensors (Basel) Article Precision breeding techniques have been widely used to optimize expenses and increase livestock yields. Notwithstanding, the joint use of heterogeneous sensors and artificial intelligence techniques for the simultaneous analysis or detection of different problems that cattle may present has not been addressed. This study arises from the necessity to obtain a technological tool that faces this state of the art limitation. As novelty, this work presents a multi-agent architecture based on virtual organizations which allows to deploy a new embedded agent model in computationally limited autonomous sensors, making use of the Platform for Automatic coNstruction of orGanizations of intElligent Agents (PANGEA). To validate the proposed platform, different studies have been performed, where parameters specific to each animal are studied, such as physical activity, temperature, estrus cycle state and the moment in which the animal goes into labor. In addition, a set of applications that allow farmers to remotely monitor the livestock have been developed. MDPI 2018-01-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5795335/ /pubmed/29301310 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18010108 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5795335/
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