title: Ambulatory instrumentation suitable for long-term monitoring of cattle health.
abstract: The benefits of real-time health diagnoses of cattle are potentially tremendous. Early detection of transmissible disease, whether from natural or terrorist events, could help to avoid huge financial losses in the agriculture industry while also improving meat quality. This work discusses physiological and behavioral parameters relevant to cattle state-of-health assessment. These parameters, along with a potentially harsh monitoring environment, drive a set of design considerations that must be addressed when building systems to acquire long-term, real-time measurements in the field. A prototype system is presented that supports the measurement of suitable physiologic parameters and begins to address the design constraints for continuous state-of-health determination in free-roaming cattle.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, USA.
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Schoenig
authors.forename: T S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Hildreth
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Nagl
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Erickson
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Spire
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Andresen
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Warren