Módulo de alerta do comportamento bovino a fim de prever o horário de parto

Abstract

Dystocia, calving difficulty, is a problem that can directly affect the production of a dairy cow. It can be avoided or minimized with human help and for that it is important to know at what moment of the calving. Therefore, this work presents the development of the prototype of the module for sending a calving alert to the producer. The project aims to receive periodic readings from a physical device regarding the behavior of an animal and, based on these readings, process and identify the possible moment of calving. However, the physical device is not finished yet and, to replace its data, the work also developed a readings generator that simulates the readings sent by the device. At the moment, the prototype is able to identify, based on the processing of the readings, the expected time of calving, using simple parameters that should be improved in the future.