Gray, James and Banhazi, Thomas M. and Kist, Alexander A. (2017) Wireless data management system for environmental monitoring in livestock buildings. Information Processing in Agriculture, 4 (1). pp. 1-17.
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Abstract
The impact of air quality on the health, welfare and productivity of livestock needs to be considered, especially when livestock are kept in enclosed buildings. The monitoring of such environmental factors allows for the development of appropriate strategies to reduce detrimental effects of sub-optimal air quality on the respiratory health of both livestock and farmers. In 2009, an environmental monitoring system was designed, developed and tested that allowed for the monitoring of a number of airborne pollutants. One limitation of the system was the manual collection of logged data from each unit. This paper identifies limitations of the current environmental monitoring system and suggests a range of networking technologies that can be used to increase usability. Consideration is taken for the networking of environmental monitoring units, as well as the collection of recorded data. Furthermore, the design and development of a software system that is used to collate and store recorded environmental data from multiple farms is explored. In order to design such a system, simplified software engineering processes and methodologies have been utilised. The main steps taken in order to complete the project were requirements elicitation with clients, requirements analysis, system design, implementation and finally testing. The outcome of the project provided a potential prototype for improving the environmental monitoring system and analysis informing the benefit of the implementation.
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| Item Type: | Article (Commonwealth Reporting Category C) |
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| Refereed: | Yes |
| Item Status: | Live Archive |
| Additional Information: | Published version made available under Open Access. |
| Faculty / Department / School: | Current - Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences - School of Civil Engineering and Surveying |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Oct 2017 01:39 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Apr 2018 01:27 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | sensors; environmental monitoring; networking; software engineering |
| Fields of Research : | 07 Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences > 0702 Animal Production > 070203 Animal Management |
| Socio-Economic Objective: | D Environment > 96 Environment > 9601 Air Quality > 960103 Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Air Quality |
| Identification Number or DOI: | 10.1016/j.inpa.2016.12.001 |
| URI: | http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/30711 |
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