A Zigbee-Based Animal Health Monitoring System

Author

Kumar, Ajit ; Hancke, Gerhard P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr., Univ. of Pretoria, Tshwane, South Africa

Volume

15

Issue

1

fYear

2015

fDate

Jan. 2015

Firstpage

610

Lastpage

617

Abstract

An animal health monitoring system for monitoring the physiological parameters, such as rumination, body temperature, and heart rate with surrounding temperature and humidity, has been developed. The developed system can also analyze the stress level corresponding to thermal humidity index. The IEEE802.15.4 and IEEE1451.2 standards-based sensor module has been developed successfully. The Zigbee device and PIC18F4550 microcontroller are used in the implementation of sensor module. The graphical user interface (GUI) is implemented in LabVIEW 9 according to the IEEE1451.1 standard. The real-time monitoring of physiological and behavioral parameters can be present on the GUI PC. The device is very helpful for inexpensive health care of livestock. A prototype model is developed and tested with high accuracy results.

Keywords

IEEE standards; Zigbee; biomedical equipment; computerised monitoring; farming; graphical user interfaces; microcontrollers; veterinary medicine; virtual instrumentation; GUI PC; IEEE1451.1 standard; IEEE1451.2 standard-based sensor module; IEEE802.15.4 standard-based sensor module; LabVIEW 9; PIC18F4550 microcontroller; Zigbee device; Zigbee-based animal health monitoring system; graphical user interface; livestock health care; real-time behavioral parameter monitoring; real-time physiological parameter monitoring; stress level analysis; thermal humidity index; Animals; Heart rate; Humidity; Monitoring; Temperature sensors; Zigbee; Zigbee; physiological parameters; sensors; temperature humidity index; wireless transmission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Sensors Journal, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1530-437X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSEN.2014.2349073

Filename

6879432