An investigation of cow feeding behavior using motion sensors

Author

Bishop-Hurley, Greg ; Henry, David ; Smith, D. ; Dutta, Ritaban ; Hills, James ; Rawnsley, Richard ; Hellicar, Andrew ; Timms, G. ; Morshed, A. ; Rahman, Aminur ; D´Este, C. ; Shu Yanfeng

Author_Institution

CSIRO Animal, Food & Health Sci., Australia

fYear

2014

fDate

12-15 May 2014

Firstpage

1285

Lastpage

1290

Abstract

An experiment to study the impact of supplements upon the feeding behavior of dairy cattle was conducted at the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA) Dairy Research Facility. Collar systems with 3-axis accelerometer and magnetometer were fitted to individual cows to infer their feeding behavior. We describe the solutions applied to correct for sensor data issues, and then provide some preliminary analysis associated with developing behavior models using multivariate time series data.

Keywords

accelerometers; data analysis; farming; magnetometers; production engineering computing; time series; 3-axis accelerometer; collar systems; cow feeding behavior; dairy cattle feeding behavior; magnetometer; motion sensors; multivariate time series data; sensor data issues; Cows; Feature extraction; Global Positioning System; Legged locomotion; Magnetic heads; Sensors; Time series analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) Proceedings, 2014 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Montevideo

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/I2MTC.2014.6860952

Filename

6860952