ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2020
Is Continuous Heart Rate Monitoring of Livestock a Dream or Is It Realistic? A Review.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- - Invited Review - Biosensors in precision livestock farming in dairy production: decoding animals' needs.Animal bioscience · 2026Article
- Radiofrequency Wave Sensing for Rapid Animal Health Monitoring: A Proof-of-Concept Study.Veterinary sciences · 2025Article
- Technical note: a nose ring sensor system to monitor dairy cow cardiovascular and respiratory metrics.Journal of animal science · 2022Article
- Affective State Recognition in Livestock-Artificial Intelligence Approaches.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Review
- A Power-Efficient Sensing Approach for Pulse Wave Palpation-Based Heart Rate Measurement.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Special Issue: ECG Monitoring System.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Transforming the Adaptation Physiology of Farm Animals through Sensors.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Review
- An Approach towards Motion-Tolerant PPG-Based Algorithm for Real-Time Heart Rate Monitoring of Moving Pigs.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
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Abstract
For all homoeothermic living organisms, heart rate (HR) is a core variable to control the metabolic energy production in the body, which is crucial to realize essential bodily functions. Consequently, HR monitoring is becoming increasingly important in research of farm animals, not only for production efficiency, but also for animal welfare. Real-time HR monitoring for humans has become feasible though there are still shortcomings for continuously accurate measuring. This paper is an effort to estimate whether it is realistic to get a continuous HR sensor for livestock that can be used for long term monitoring. The review provides the reported techniques to monitor HR of living organisms by emphasizing their principles, advantages, and drawbacks. Various properties and capabilities of these techniques are compared to check the potential to transfer the mostly adequate sensor technology of humans to livestock in term of application. Based upon this review, we conclude that the photoplethysmographic (PPG) technique seems feasible for implementation in livestock. Therefore, we present the contributions to overcome challenges to evolve to better solutions. Our study indicates that it is realistic today to develop a PPG sensor able to be integrated into an ear tag for mid-sized and larger farm animals for continuously and accurately monitoring their HRs.
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