ABSTRACT
As
the nation is emphasizing on the development of the economy with agriculture as
an attendant alternative to the existing oil driven economy, it has become
imperative to mechanize agriculture. This work is centered on livestock.
Research has shown that
livestock in the farm are mostly affected by diseases and that the proximity
between animals and humans has made the latter more vulnerable to infectious
diseases of animals. These various diseases are so tormenting that they kill
livestock quickly and in large number, thereby increasing the cost of livestock
farming. Even with the proliferation of modern sensing devices, design concepts
and scientific propositions that are in abundance. However, building a
functional as well as cost effective miniature device that is capable of
remotely detecting cattle’s health status and location in real-time has been
quite challenging. In view of this, this work proposes an Internet of Things
cum Near Field Communication (NFC) system for monitoring
and tracking the health status as well as the location of any cattle by using
sensors, and Global Positioning System (GPS) module respectively. The system implementation was
carried out using the software program to drive the hardware system. The
design is an embedded application which forms unit integration with various sensors such as
temperature sensor, pulse rate sensor, humidity sensor, and GPS location sensor
interfaced to the NodeMCU microcontroller with embedded ESP8266 Wi-Fi chip.
This Wi-Fi chip serves as an Internet of Things (IoT) gateway for sending data
to a remote server. Farmers get cows’ health status report in real time either
online or on their mobile phones in form of Short Messaging Service (SMS), so
that an intelligent monitoring is achieved by just a click on the hyperlinked
SMS to triangulate the position of cattle on the Google map. The test carried
out on the system developed shows that the prototype is flexible, reliable and capable of monitoring cattle
remotely. The system can also be deployed in a farm settlement with any kind of cattle
production system in use because
of its compact design, affordability, and complementary support for areas of
poor network infrastructure. The system developed will improve modern ranching
and which will help the national polity as the issue of Fulani herdsmen will be
curbed.
AHIARA, A (2023). Design And Implementation Of An Intelligent Remote Livestock Monitoring System Applying Near Field Communication: A Case Study Of Mouau Livestock Farm. Mouau.afribary.org: Retrieved Nov 23, 2024, from https://repository.mouau.edu.ng/work/view/design-and-implementation-of-an-intelligent-remote-livestock-monitoring-system-applying-near-field-communication-a-case-study-of-mouau-livestock-farm-7-2
AHIARA, AHIARA. "Design And Implementation Of An Intelligent Remote Livestock Monitoring System Applying Near Field Communication: A Case Study Of Mouau Livestock Farm" Mouau.afribary.org. Mouau.afribary.org, 23 Mar. 2023, https://repository.mouau.edu.ng/work/view/design-and-implementation-of-an-intelligent-remote-livestock-monitoring-system-applying-near-field-communication-a-case-study-of-mouau-livestock-farm-7-2. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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AHIARA, AHIARA. "Design And Implementation Of An Intelligent Remote Livestock Monitoring System Applying Near Field Communication: A Case Study Of Mouau Livestock Farm" Mouau.afribary.org (2023). Accessed 23 Nov. 2024. https://repository.mouau.edu.ng/work/view/design-and-implementation-of-an-intelligent-remote-livestock-monitoring-system-applying-near-field-communication-a-case-study-of-mouau-livestock-farm-7-2