Deployment of Wireless Sensor Network and IoT Platform to Implement an Intelligent Animal Monitoring System

Jehangir Arshad, Ateeq Ur Rehman, Mohamed Tahar Ben Othman, Muhammad Ahmad, Hassaan Bin Tariq, Muhammad Abdullah Khalid, Muhammad Abdul Rehman Moosa, Muhammad Shafiq and Habib Hamam
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Jehangir Arshad: Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore 54000, Pakistan
Ateeq Ur Rehman: Department of Electrical Engineering, Government College University, Lahore 54000, Pakistan
Mohamed Tahar Ben Othman: Department of Computer Science, College of Computer, Qassim University, Buraydah 51452, Saudi Arabia
Muhammad Ahmad: Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore 54000, Pakistan
Hassaan Bin Tariq: Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore 54000, Pakistan
Muhammad Abdullah Khalid: Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore 54000, Pakistan
Muhammad Abdul Rehman Moosa: Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore 54000, Pakistan
Muhammad Shafiq: Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Korea
Habib Hamam: Faculty of Engineering, Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB E1A 3E9, Canada

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 10, 1-22

Abstract: This study aimed to realize Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), i.e., no poverty, zero hunger, and sustainable cities and communities through the implementation of an intelligent cattle-monitoring system to enhance dairy production. Livestock industries in developing countries lack the technology that can directly impact meat and dairy products, where human resources are a major factor. This study proposed a novel, cost-effective, smart dairy-monitoring system by implementing intelligent wireless sensor nodes, the Internet of Things (IoT), and a Node-Micro controller Unit (Node-MCU). The proposed system comprises three modules, including an intelligent environmental parameter regularization system, a cow collar (equipped with a temperature sensor, a GPS module to locate the animal, and a stethoscope to update the heart rate), and an automatic water-filling unit for drinking water. Furthermore, a novel IoT-based front end has been developed to take data from prescribed modules and maintain a separate database for further analysis. The presented Wireless Sensor Nodes (WSNs) can intelligently determine the case of any instability in environmental parameters. Moreover, the cow collar is designed to obtain precise values of the temperature, heart rate, and accurate location of the animal. Additionally, auto-notification to the concerned party is a valuable addition developed in the cow collar design. It employed a plug-and-play design to provide ease in implementation. Moreover, automation reduces human intervention, hence labor costs are decreased when a farm has hundreds of animals. The proposed system also increases the production of dairy and meat products by improving animal health via the regularization of the environment and automated food and watering. The current study represents a comprehensive comparative analysis of the proposed implementation with the existing systems that validate the novelty of this work. This implementation can be further stretched for other applications, i.e., smart monitoring of zoo animals and poultry.

Keywords: Node-MCU; cow collar; animal health monitoring; Wireless Sensor Nodes (WSNs); microcontroller; Internet of Things (IoT); Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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