IOT Based Cattle Management System

Abstract

Desire in livestock management is crucial in agribusiness and dairy organizations hence decreasing productivity, profitability, and animal welfare in direct terms. Traditional approaches of control of cattle are largely manual and are at times inefficient, labour and are prone to human errors. This thesis outlines an IoT-Based Cattle Management System that attempts to address the gap of cattle monitoring, monitoring the cattle’s health and security by real-time collection and analysis of cattle data. The running system considers the usage of the ESP32 micro-controllers that are mounted with diverse sensors measuring body’s temperature, humidity, heart rate, and movement pattern of cattle. Moreover, GPS technology is utilized in tracking position for a location tracking reason, cattle movement can be done in actual proper time and protected from theft or missing. Conversely, the information received by the sensors is sent for processing in a cloud platform. If the human interface (web or mobile one) is user friendly, then the farmer can monitor the health and the location of their livestock from a distance and receive automated alerts in cases of abnormality and act in preventive ways when it is deemed necessary. With the help of the IoT technology, this system reduces the need for routine physical watching to a great extent, therefore increasing the efficiency of operations and reducing losses caused by the disease outbreak or movement without authorization. Additionally, the proposed system presents a scalable and economic solution for the modern livestock farming, therefore, applicable for both small-scaled and large-scale farmers. Having adapted automation and data-driven insights in its design, not only is the system optimizing the welfare of the cattle but slowly makes the strides towards sustainable and smart farming as well. Such introduction of such technology in the livestock industry has the potential to transform the traditionally run farms in the livestock industry into fairly new and lucrative entities, since such av technological advancement would create an opportunity for improved production, better revenue generation and efficiency in general in the running of the farm.