98 results about "Animal monitoring" patented technology

An asset, object, person or animal monitoring system and associated method for monitoring assets, objects, people or animals utilizing impulse radio techniques. The asset, object, person or animal monitoring system of the present invention can vary the duty cycles of the impulse radio transmitters, by both manual and automatic means, to adapt to varied requirements.

An animal monitoring system, comprising a real time location system (RTLS) for individually identifying and tracking the movements of tagged animals in three dimensions within a monitoring zone, and means for discriminating between different activities of at least one animal based upon the location of the animal's tag within the zone.

A monitoring device for monitoring the well-being of animals, the monitoring device including a carrier arrangement which can be attached to an animal and which has at least one sensor for sensing a vital function of an animal wearing the carrier arrangement. In the event of a deviation of an actual state from a target state of the animal that leaves a tolerance range, an output signal signaling the deviation is outputted by an output unit.

The invention provides a controlling method and a controlling device for remote monitoring system. The controlling method of the remote monitoring system includes the obtaining of the attitude of a cradle head and the location information of a monitoring object. The target angle of the cradle head and focal distance of a monitoring camera are calculated according to the attitude and location information. By utilizing the controlling method and controlling device for remote monitoring system, within the monitoring area, according to the location of the monitoring object the remote monitoring system controls the turning of the cradle head quickly, adjusts the focal distance of the monitoring camera , automatically locates the monitoring object and implements tracing. The speed and accuracy of capturing target by the cradle head are higher, the controlling mode is more flexible, the remote monitoring is more quickly, the monitoring level is increased, and a foundation is provided for the intelligent dispatching of ships,operating passenger vehicles, goods yard vehicles and the like transportation means and animal monitoring and management under specific environment.

An animal monitoring system has sensor modules carried on respective animals. Each module includes a GPS position locator to determine a current position of the animal, a transmitter, and a controller arranged to store a previously determined position of the animal thereon. A central monitoring system is located remotely from the animal which stores boundary position data representing a boundary thereon and which is arranged to communicate with the sensor module over a network. If the position of the animal changes significantly, a notification signal is transmitted to the central monitoring system which compares the current position to the boundary position data to determine is a user should be notified of an alarm condition. The sensor modules may also monitor various physiological characteristics of the animal to notify the central monitor system and subsequently the user if the animal appears to be in danger.

An animal monitoring device. In particular, the monitoring device is capable of not only identifying the animal and keeping track of its movement, but it may also be capable of monitoring ketone emissions and / or other vital health indicators of the animal. By tracking these measurements, it is possible to provide a unique indication of the health of the animal. Through data logging hardware, this device would be able log these clinical health indicators for a sufficient period of time in a non-invasive manner.

Disclosed is an animal monitoring system that collects data regarding an animal and / or an animal's environment and enables access to the collected animal monitoring data. The system comprises a data-logger unit attached to an animal, that logs data regarding the animal or its environment; a data-relay for relaying the data to a data-storage means that collects the data; and a website that provides access to the collected data.

The invention regards an animal monitoring system for determining feed consumption of one or more animals feeding at a feeding area, comprising an imaging unit for range imaging the feeding area, identification means configured to uniquely identify each feeding animal, and processing means configured for assessing the amount of feed consumed by each identified animal by determining the reduction of feed in subsequent images of the feeding area in front of each identified animal.

The invention provides a wild animal monitoring system established based on a wireless image sensor network. The wild animal monitoring system based on the wireless image sensor network comprises a wireless infrared image sensor network, a base station and a wild animal monitoring center, wherein the wireless infrared image sensor network can achieve the automatic collection, compression and transmission of wild animal monitoring images in all weather, the base station is connected with the wireless infrared image sensor network through a 3G network, and the wild animal monitoring center is connected with the base station through an Internet and is provided with a 3D GIS. An image compression algorithm which is based on a compression sensing theory and is suitable for the wireless infrared image sensor network which is limited in processing capability, power source endurance and information channel transmission bandwidth is adopted in the wild animal monitoring system. The wild animal monitoring system based on the wireless image sensor network is the successful application of the wireless image sensor network in the filed of wild animal protection monitoring, the wild animal monitoring images can be obtained in all weather, and researching personnel are assisted to remotely master the current state and the dynamic changing of wild animal resources in real time.

An animal monitoring device configured as a bolus for oral administration to reside in an animal's stomach. The bolus has a substantially inert solid body with a hollow inside space to receive the animal monitoring device. The animal monitoring device includes a radio frequency generator, an animal identification information encoder for outputting the animal identification information of the particular animal. The animal monitoring device can further include sensors to detect physiological and non-physiological animal characteristics such as temperature and a sensed animal characteristic encoder for outputting sensed animal characteristic information. The animal monitoring device intermittently transmits encoded animal identification information and sensed animal characteristic information to a receiver which transmits the encoded information as packets to a specialized computer which allows a computer user access to decoded animal identification information and sensed animal characteristic information as numeric values.

A system and method are provided for monitoring the movement of an animal. An animal transceiver unit is placed on the animal for transmitting and receiving signals. A base transceiver unit for transmitting and receiving signals relative to the animal transceiver unit is operated to monitor relative movement of the animal transceiver unit and the base transceiver unit. An indication of the relative distance between the base transceiver unit and the animal transceiver unit is provided in response to signal communication between the animal and base transceiver units.

Generally, an animal monitoring device configured as a bolus for oral administration to reside in the reticulorumen of a ruminant animal having a memory element, a processor in communication with the memory element and a computer code contained in the memory element including a power management module executable by the processor to regulate power use by the bolus based on determination of remaining energy stored in an energy source and the determined power requirements over a pre-determined life cycle of the bolus.

Generally, an animal monitoring system including a bolus administered to reside in an animal operable to sense changes in one or more physiological parameters of the animal and generate and transmit encoded bolus sensor data to a tag affixed on the outside of the animal which operates to sense changes in one or more environmental parameters surrounding the animal and to generate encoded tag sensor data and to receive encoded bolus sensor data each of which can be analyzed by the tag or a remote data processor to generate environmental parameter values and physiological parameter values to assess an environmental or physiological condition of or about the animal.

The invention relates to a wild animal field monitoring device. On the basis of a wireless sensor network technology, the wild animal field monitoring device can form a wireless sensor network in a self-organizing mode to automatically collect and send wild animal monitoring images. The wild animal field monitoring device is composed of an image collecting module, an image processing module, a wireless communication module, a GPS module and a power supply module, wherein the image collecting module is provided with three pyroelectric infrared sensors, a plurality of infrared LEDs, a photosensitive sensor and two steering engines and can automatically collecting the wild animal monitoring images. The wild animal field monitoring device adopts an image compression algorithm based on compressed sensing and has high energy efficiency and a high compression ratio to reduce data transmission quantity. The wild animal field monitoring device is a successful application in the aspect of wild animal monitoring, can obtain the wild animal monitoring images all weather and helps research workers to master the current situation and dynamic changes of wild animal resources remotely in real time.

Disclosed is an animal monitoring system that collects data regarding an animal and / or an animal's environment and enables access to the collected animal monitoring data. The system comprises a data-logger unit attached to an animal, that logs data regarding the animal or its environment; a data-relay for relaying the data to a data-storage means that collects the data; and a website that provides access to the collected data.

The invention discloses a large-scale wireless sensor network data collection method based on an unmanned aerial vehicle. The method comprises the following steps that sensor nodes collect surroundinginformation in an event-driven mode; dividing the target area according to a grid type, and forming a cluster by the sensor nodes in the same grid; counting node energy in each cluster, and selectingthe node with the most residual energy in the cluster as a cluster head node; calculating an information value of a non-cluster head node in the grid at the moment t; if a threshold function is given, forwarding the node data to the cluster head nodes in the same grid, otherwise, returning; training the unmanned aerial vehicle on line according to the DFP model, and planning an unmanned aerial vehicle path; and the unmanned aerial vehicle collects data of the sensor nodes according to the planned path and transmits the data back to the base station. According to the invention, the DFP model is applied to unmanned aerial vehicle path planning, so that the unmanned aerial vehicle can maximize the collected total information value and ensure charging at a low electric quantity, and the method is very suitable for animal monitoring, forest fire, earthquake rescue and other scenes.

A method for monitoring an animal, the method including an electronic processing device (121) for wirelessly receiving at least one signal indicative of first and second biological attributes of the animal, wherein the at least one first biological attribute is at least partially sensed using at least one first sensor (111) worn on a neck region of the animal; and, the at least one second biological attribute is at least partially sensed using at least one second sensor (112) worn on a non-neck region of the animal; and, generating at least one indicator at least partially indicative of the first and second biological attributes.

A system and method are provided for monitoring the movement of an animal. An animal transceiver unit is placed on the animal for transmitting and receiving signals. A base transceiver unit for transmitting and receiving signals relative to the animal transceiver unit is operated to monitor relative movement of the animal transceiver unit and the base transceiver unit. An indication of the relative distance between the base transceiver unit and the animal transceiver unit is provided in response to signal communication between the animal and base transceiver units.

The invention discloses a digitized monitoring method for a Chinese sturgeon natural reserve, belonging to an aquatic animal monitoring method which aims to solve the problems of data storage marks, underwater base station receiving and wireless transmission. The method has the technical scheme that acoustic marks, wireless marks and integrated passive repeater marks are adopted to singly mark or multiply mark young Chinese sturgeons. The method is characterized in that the center of the reserve is used as a base point; fixed float bowls are arranged every 7km in the north-south direction, and each float bowl is provided with a sonar signal receiving device; the signal receiving in the north-south direction covers a water area of about 60km wide; the sonar receiving device is used for receiving, and data signals are amplified and transmitted to a base station on land in a wireless transmission mode; a young Chinese sturgeon reserve is provided with 4-7 environment monitoring stations, and on-line water quality monitoring equipment is utilized to monitor the conditions of the hydrology, the meteorology, the water quality, and the like in real time; and obtained information is transmitted back to the base station in the wireless transmission mode. The method is used for Chinese sturgeon monitoring.

The invention discloses a wild animal monitoring system. The wild animal monitoring system comprises multiple front modules, multiple rear modules and a cloud module; the front modules perform monitoring on a scenery in a set range, perform recording to generate an original image when a moving target enters a monitoring range, and perform processing and storage on the original image; the rear modules perform dynamic analysis, animal type recognition, animal number and animal age prediction, and animal activity rule analysis on the processed image, perform summarization on data obtained by theanalysis and write to a database to store; and the cloud module performs generalization and summarization on the data obtained by the analysis with reference to the previously received data, presentsthe data in a form of a data report, a chart, a curve and a distribution map, performs storage on the generalized and summarized data and sends to a set user. The data processing and analysis are implemented, and animal population type, number and activity rule are presented, such that a powerful data support is provided for a relevant department to control a balance of wild species and investigate the wild species.

The invention discloses an intelligent grazing herd quantity monitoring method and system. The method comprises the following steps: a master device is put on a head animal and slave devices are put on a plurality of slave animals in advance, wherein the slave devices are as many as the slave animals; if needing to monitor the herd, the master device sends a calling message to the slave devices belonging to the same network; the master device sends the response results of the various slave devices to the calling message to a remote server, wherein the response results carry head animal monitoring information such as the position of the master device, an environmental temperature and step counting data; and the remote server detects whether the herd has an animal loss case and the conditions of all the monitoring contents according to the response results. According to the intelligent grazing herd quantity monitoring method, a herdsman can realize unmanned intelligent grazing even at home; in other words, the herdsman can know the survival condition of the herd in the wild by virtue of the remote server. As a result, the workload of the herdsman is reduced; the safety of the herdsman is guaranteed; the problem of soil desertification due to that the meadow in the vicinity of the dwelling place of the herdsman is over-nibbled is avoided; the property loss of the herdsman due to animal loss is avoided. Moreover, the potential consumers of the animals can thoroughly know the breeding conditions of the animals.

The invention discloses a wild animal wireless monitoring analysis system and method based on a deep convolutional neural network. Image data of a moving object is acquired and a database is established; image calibration and preprocessing are performed; the deep convolutional neural network is trained in combination with an Adam optimization algorithm; wild animals are detected and identified; the appearance time of wild animals is prolonged; statistical analysis is carried out on places and a model is established; the problem of high labor intensity in the traditional method is solved; Artificial analysis time consumption is long, it is difficult to analyze and obtain the current situation of wild animal resources and the accurate situation of dynamic changes due to a large amount of redundant information and false identification information is solved, researchers can remotely obtain the individual characteristics and population distribution situation of wild animals in a monitored area in real time, and the working efficiency and the accuracy of analysis results are improved.

The invention relates to the technical field of the ecological monitoring, and especially an automatic monitoring system of a wild animal based on deep learning technology. A controller module is arranged in a data collecting end, the controller module is electrically connected with a sound collection module, an image collection module, a communication module, an accumulator module and an execution module, and the execution module is further electrically connected with the sound collection module and the image collection module; a processor is arranged in a data analysis end, and the processoris electrically connected with a video image analysis module, the sound analysis module, a storage module, a display module, an operation module, an interaction module and a data transceiver. The system for monitoring the wild animal has high accuracy, the monitoring method is convenient for deployment and simple in configuration, the wild animal monitoring process is greatly simplified, and themonitoring efficiency is improved.

The invention discloses an integrated wild animal image automatic acquisition device and method, and the device is disposed in a wild animal monitoring region, and comprises a power management module which is used for providing a power supply for the whole device, and carrying out the equipment power consumption monitoring, charging management and power path management; an automatic image acquisition module used for realizing automatic acquisition of wild animal images; wherein the automatic image acquisition module comprises an infrared camera, a photosensitive element, an optical filter, an infrared LED lamp array, an illumination intensity sensor, a main controller and a pyroelectric sensor group; and a peripheral module used for realizing remote transmission, local storage and local preview of the images; the invention has the beneficial effects that the infrared camera is used as a main body, and the power management module, the image automatic acquisition module and the peripheral module are configured, so that the power supply problem of the wild animal monitoring equipment, the image definition problem in a complex light environment, the power consumption problem of the equipment and the like are solved, and the intelligent level of the wild animal monitoring system is further improved.

The invention relates to an underwater acoustic environment monitoring wireless communication system and method, belonging to the technical field of water body animal monitoring, underwater acoustic environment and underwater monitoring. The system includes a floating platform access node, a shore base station, a power supply module, an information acquisition module, an underwater fixing device, and a server device. The method includes that 1) the modules in the underwater acoustic environment monitoring wireless communication system are connected and initialized; 2) the information acquisition module acquires the information and then sends the information to a sensor communication unit; 3) the sensor communication unit sends the information to the floating platform access node or the shore base station; 4) the shore base station feeds back the handshake information to a floating platform communication unit, and determines whether shaking hands with the sensor communication unit; and 5) the server device allows the shore base station to visit. The underwater acoustic environment monitoring wireless communication system and method integrate a variety of transmission technology, have the advantages of flexible realization and high information transmission efficiency, and can achieve continuous underwater acoustic environment monitoring.

The invention provides a pasture animal tracking and monitoring system based on the Zigbee technology, and belongs to the field of animal monitoring systems. The system comprises a user terminal, a GPRS satellite base station and a Zigbee device. The Zigbee device is used for collecting pasture animal number, position data and video data, electronic ear tags are used for positioning, and therefore the system can monitor the movement condition of each animal. A user can remotely check the movement condition of each animal in the pasture in real time by using the user terminal through the GPRS satellite base station in a wireless mode. The problem that an existing pasture animal monitoring system cannot monitor the growth condition of each animal in real time is solved.