{"id":6146,"date":"2021-02-24T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6146"},"modified":"2021-02-24T11:00:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T11:00:20","slug":"identifying-dairy-cattle-activity-and-behaviour-using-beacons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/identifying-dairy-cattle-activity-and-behaviour-using-beacons\/","title":{"rendered":"Identifying Dairy Cattle Activity and Behaviour Using Beacons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Department of Biosystems Engineering, of the Poznan University of Life Sciences in Poland has new research on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2076-3417\/11\/3\/1062\/htm\" target=\"_blank\">Beacon in Information System as Way of Supporting Identification of Cattle Behavior<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"537\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/diaryherdbeacons-1024x537.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/diaryherdbeacons-1024x537.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/diaryherdbeacons-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/diaryherdbeacons-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/diaryherdbeacons-1200x629.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/diaryherdbeacons.png 1334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers identified the behaviour and physiological state of milk cattle using beacons and combined this with data from weather forecast stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dairydataaquisitionsystem-1024x585.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dairydataaquisitionsystem-1024x585.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dairydataaquisitionsystem-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dairydataaquisitionsystem-768x439.png 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dairydataaquisitionsystem-1536x878.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dairydataaquisitionsystem-1200x686.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dairydataaquisitionsystem.png 1904w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Changes of motor activity of cows were recorded on the 24hr characteristics and registered during the period of cattle heat. Motorola smartphones were used as base stations to collect and process the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/motoractivityofcowonheat-1024x431.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/motoractivityofcowonheat-1024x431.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/motoractivityofcowonheat-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/motoractivityofcowonheat-768x323.png 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/motoractivityofcowonheat-1536x647.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/motoractivityofcowonheat-1200x505.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/motoractivityofcowonheat.png 1548w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The researchers succeeded in collecting and processing data from beacon devices that provided an alterative to traditional pedometer-based solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Biosystems Engineering, of the Poznan University of Life Sciences in Poland has new research on Beacon in Information System as Way of Supporting Identification of Cattle Behavior. Researchers identified the behaviour and physiological state of milk cattle using beacons and combined this with data from weather forecast stations. Changes of motor activity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/identifying-dairy-cattle-activity-and-behaviour-using-beacons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Identifying Dairy Cattle Activity and Behaviour Using Beacons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6152,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146\/revisions\/6152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}