Smart indoor climate control in precision livestock farming

TY - GEN

T1 - Smart indoor climate control in precision livestock farming

AU - Zhang, Guoqiang

AU - Bjerg, Bjarne Schmidt

AU - Wang, Xiaoshuai

N1 - Conference code: 1

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - One of the major objectives of precision livestock farming (PLF) is to provide an optimal thermal climate control in the animal occupant zones for promoting animal production and wellbeing. To achieve this goal, smart climate models that reflect the needs of different animal species and ages or feasible sensor techniques that can measure animal felt thermal environment are essential. Ideally, such a model should be able to integrate the effects of air temperature,humidity, air speed (including turbulence) and thermal radiation on animal thermal comfort/wellbeing, and consequently, animal productions. In this paper, models defined as effective/equivalent felt temperature for different farm animals are introduced and discussed. Using such a felt temperature would be valuable for control of ventilation, cooling facilities, and air speed in animal occupant zone (AOZ) to achieve desired thermal condition in AOZ. In addition, the paper presents a fundamental principle of development of an integrated indoor climate sensor to reflect animal thermal wellbeing and techniques that could be used for a smart system design and control are discussed.

AB - One of the major objectives of precision livestock farming (PLF) is to provide an optimal thermal climate control in the animal occupant zones for promoting animal production and wellbeing. To achieve this goal, smart climate models that reflect the needs of different animal species and ages or feasible sensor techniques that can measure animal felt thermal environment are essential. Ideally, such a model should be able to integrate the effects of air temperature,humidity, air speed (including turbulence) and thermal radiation on animal thermal comfort/wellbeing, and consequently, animal productions. In this paper, models defined as effective/equivalent felt temperature for different farm animals are introduced and discussed. Using such a felt temperature would be valuable for control of ventilation, cooling facilities, and air speed in animal occupant zone (AOZ) to achieve desired thermal condition in AOZ. In addition, the paper presents a fundamental principle of development of an integrated indoor climate sensor to reflect animal thermal wellbeing and techniques that could be used for a smart system design and control are discussed.

M3 - Article in proceedings

SP - 8

EP - 11

BT - Proceedings of the 1st Asian Conference on precision livestock farming

T2 - 1st Asian Conference on Precision Livestock Farming

Y2 - 9 September 2016 through 11 September 2016

ER -