ABSTRACT
Use of computing equipment together with telecommunication
infrastructure brings novel capabilities to monitoring and managing animal
health. Nigerian farmers have suffered enormous loss of livestock through death,
reduced productivity and loss of market for product as a result of a swarm of
diseases which barrage livestock in Nigeria. This casualty has remained a
colossal challenge to farmers. The research give deeper insights into the
challenges faced by livestock farmers in Nigeria, to highlight the technique
used to monitor animal health and predict disease together with establishing
the data and information required to monitor animal health at a farm. This
study further proposes an expert system model for animal health monitoring
using expert system. An expert system is a computer program that uses
artificial intelligence technologies to simulate the judgment and behavior of a
human or an organization that has expert knowledge and experience in a
particular field. The expert system model enables the automation of the process
of animal health management at a farm including recording farm, farmers and
animal details, predicting animal disease and monitoring of animal health. It
provides a platform where the farmer and a veterinary expert can collaborate.
The platform enables the farmer to give details of animal after which the
record is stored in a database. Furthermore, the health of the animal can be
monitored to recovery. The methodology used in this research include interview.
observation and reading related materials which gave the researcher deeper
insight with respect to the investigation. More so, the researcher used agile
software development model because it involves pairwise programming and does
not follow a rigid approach to program development.
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EMMANUEL, ONUMONU. "Expert System For Swine Disease Diagnosis" Mouau.afribary.org (2021). Accessed 24 Nov. 2024. https://repository.mouau.edu.ng/work/view/expert-system-for-swine-disease-diagnosis-7-2