TY - GEN
T1 - METHODOLOGY DESCRIPTION OF A REAL-ENVIRONMENT COMMERCIAL FARM TO ANALYSE CATTLE VOCALISATIONS
AU - Castro, Muriel
AU - Duboc, Leticia
AU - Freixes, Marc
AU - Ginovart-Panisello, Gerardo José
AU - Guevara, Raúl
AU - Larrondo, Cristian
AU - Llonch, Pol
AU - Mainau, Eva
AU - Malé, Jordi
AU - Miranda, Joana
AU - Vidaña-Vila, Ester
AU - Alsina-Pagès, Rosa M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 First author et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Animal welfare is an essential concern for our society. Now, various studies show that animal welfare also has an impact on the growth and the reproductive potential of animals, as well as on their productivity. The vocalizations of the cows can be used to infer their well-being, and they can be measured in real-time with acoustic sensors, which have a moderate cost and are connected to the cloud. This article details different test pilots in dairy cattle farms, with the goal of observing cow's vocalizations in various situations: i) labor ii) cow herding, and iii) early detection of respiratory illnesses. The approaches to be carried out are different depending on the herds and the type of cows monitored. This article describes the elements to be considered for a good preliminary deployment of the technology, which will allow the capture of data and recordings in pilot studies. The aim of this work is to provide a good estimation of what a permanent installation should look like for an automatic and continuous detection of well-being through the cow's vocalizations.
AB - Animal welfare is an essential concern for our society. Now, various studies show that animal welfare also has an impact on the growth and the reproductive potential of animals, as well as on their productivity. The vocalizations of the cows can be used to infer their well-being, and they can be measured in real-time with acoustic sensors, which have a moderate cost and are connected to the cloud. This article details different test pilots in dairy cattle farms, with the goal of observing cow's vocalizations in various situations: i) labor ii) cow herding, and iii) early detection of respiratory illnesses. The approaches to be carried out are different depending on the herds and the type of cows monitored. This article describes the elements to be considered for a good preliminary deployment of the technology, which will allow the capture of data and recordings in pilot studies. The aim of this work is to provide a good estimation of what a permanent installation should look like for an automatic and continuous detection of well-being through the cow's vocalizations.
KW - acoustic signal processing
KW - animal welfare
KW - bioacoustics
KW - cow
KW - vocalization
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85191244754
T3 - Proceedings of Forum Acusticum
BT - Forum Acusticum 2023 - 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023
PB - European Acoustics Association, EAA
T2 - 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023
Y2 - 11 September 2023 through 15 September 2023
ER -