Antonia Catherine White;István Gyöngy;Robert Eric Boyce
发明人:
István Gyöngy,Robert Eric Boyce,Antonia Catherine White
申请号：
US13695504
公开号：
US09766263B2
申请日:
2011.04.28
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2017
代理人:
摘要：
Disclosed is apparatus and a method for detecting udder disease in dairy animals. An accelerometer is attached to each of a plurality of dairy animals. A processor determines a measure of the activity of the dairy animals to which the accelerometers are attached. Data is recorded by and automatically transmitted from a sensor unit secured to an animal, without the requirement for costly and time consuming chemical analysis of milk, or of visual or veterinary inspection of individual animals in a herd. The development of an udder disease in a dairy animal, such as mastitis, may be identified from a decrease in the monitored measure of activity of a dairy animal. A separate baseline measure of activity may be determined for each dairy animal and the activity of a plurality of dairy animals in one or more herds may be taken into account, in order to reduce false positives due to external effects which are not specific to a single dairy animal.
