Autonomous Livestock Monitoring Using Machine Vision

CattleEye, an ‘AI first’ company, have harnessed the capabilities of advanced Artificial Intelligence in video analytics to deliver the world’s first academically verified autonomous livestock monitoring platform.

To use the system a low-cost security camera is mounted over the exit race of a milking parlour and connected to the Internet. Artificial intelligence algorithms in the cloud will then start learning how to uniquely identify the cows in the herd, monitoring welfare and an increasing number of other behaviours. These insights are then delivered back to a smartphone and/or integrated with popular farm management systems such as Dairycomp.

The CattleEye mobility scoring module monitors lameness levels on cows and highlights any individual cows that may require treatment. Using this tool to select cows for foot trimming and treatment will reduce lameness levels on your herd. Research from the UK Animal Health & Welfare Technical Directorate has demonstrated that a 10% decrease in lameness levels on an average dairy herd would create a saving of £91.25 per cow per year and a carbon reduction of 0.57t per cow per year. Research from the University of Liverpool has concluded that CattleEye “outperformed a human expert in identifying lame cows”.