Evidence map›Paper›PMID 37112171›Full record

ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Cow Behavioural Activities in Extensive Farms: Challenges of Adopting Automatic Monitoring Systems.

Dominga Mancuso, Giulia Castagnolo, Simona M C Porto

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Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Dominga MancusoDepartment of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Di3A), Building and Land Engineering Section, University of Catania, Via S. Sofia 100, 95123 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5044-2905
Giulia CastagnoloDepartment of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering (DIEEI), University of Catania, Viale A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy.
Simona M C PortoDepartment of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Di3A), Building and Land Engineering Section, University of Catania, Via S. Sofia 100, 95123 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8303-3486

Funding

Italian Ministery of University and Research E64I18002270001University of Catania 5A722192146
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Animal welfare is becoming an increasingly important requirement in the livestock sector to improve, and therefore raise, the quality and healthiness of food production. By monitoring the behaviour of the animals, such as feeding, rumination, walking, and lying, it is possible to understand their physical and psychological status. Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) tools offer a good solution to assist the farmer in managing the herd, overcoming the limits of human control, and to react early in the case of animal health issues. The purpose of this review is to highlight a key concern that occurs in the design and validation of IoT-based systems created for monitoring grazing cows in extensive agricultural systems, since they have many more, and more complicated, problems than indoor farms. In this context, the most common concerns are related to the battery life of the devices, the sampling frequency to be used for data collection, the need for adequate service connection coverage and transmission range, the computational site, and the performance of the algorithm embedded in IoT-systems in terms of computational cost.

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Animal WelfareLivestockAnimalsCattleDairyingData CollectionFarmsFemaleHumansMonitoring, Physiologicextensive farmsInternet of Thingsprecision livestock farming

Identifiers

PMID37112171
PMCPMC10143811

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