Cattle raising management system and process

• US 10,643,289 B2
• Filed: 11/25/2016
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch Limited (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch Limited (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Inventors: Ferro dos Santos, Gustavo Henrique
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Nam V
• Application Number:
  US16/064,966
• Publication Number:
  US 20180374165A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,257 Days
• Field of Search: 340 1251, 340 101- 105, 600301
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 11/006 Automatic identification systems for animals, e.g. electronic devices, transponders for animals identification systems for access to feeding pens A01K1/0209; ear tags with electronic identification means A01K11/004
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 17/0022 arrangements or provisious for transferring data to distant stations, e.g. from a sensing device "transfer between computer elements G06F13/00 "; data-transmission H04L
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/02 Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Mining

Abstract

A cattle raising management system includes at least one terrain package (1) which includes a terrain intercommunication box (8), at least one propagation package (2) which includes a repeater intercommunication box (9) and at least one farm package (3) which includes a farm intercommunication box (10). The terrain intercommunication box (8), the repeater intercommunication box (9), and the farm intercommunication box (10) form a network where each of said boxes can be connected via radio waves to any of the other boxes.

Claims

1. A cattle raising management system comprising:

at least one terrain package (1) which includes a device (4) for interaction with the cattle, and a terrain intercommunication box (8) connected to the device (4) for interaction with the cattle;

at least one propagation package (2) which includes a repeater intercommunication box (9); and

at least one farm package (3) which includes a farm intercommunication box (10) and a computer (22) connected to the farm intercommunication box (10),

wherein the terrain intercommunication box (8) is configured to

wirelessly communicate with the repeater intercommunication box (9), and

wirelessly communicate with the farm intercommunication box (10),

wherein the repeater intercommunication box (9) is configured to

wirelessly communicate with the terrain intercommunication box (8), and

wirelessly communicate with the farm intercommunication box (10),

wherein the farm intercommunication box (10) is configured to

wirelessly communicate with the terrain intercommunication box (8), and

wirelessly communicate with the repeater intercommunication box (9), and

wherein the terrain intercommunication box (8), the repeater intercommunication box (9), and the farm intercommunication box (10) form a wireless network with each other, and

wherein said network formed by the terrain intercommunication box (8), the repeater intercommunication box (9) and the farm intercommunication box (10) is a mesh network.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein said mesh network works according to the IEEE 802.11s standard or IEEE 802.15.4 standard.

3. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a cloud-based networking (26) connected to the computer (22).

4. The system according to claim 3, further comprising at least one mobility package (27) that includes a mobile device connected to the computer (22) or to the cloud-based networking (26).

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the device (4) for interaction with the cattle of the terrain package (1) includes a radio frequency identifier (15) and wherein the system also includes a radio frequency tag (36) for each animal.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the device (4) for interaction with the cattle of the terrain package (1) includes a weighing platform(5).

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the device (4) for interaction with the cattle of the terrain package (1) includes a diffuser (7) for application of paint or medicine.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the terrain package (1) includes a mounting pole (16).

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein the terrain package (1) includes a solar panel (17).

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein the propagation package (2) includes a mounting pole (18).

11. The system according to claim 1, wherein the propagation package (2) includes a solar panel (19).

12. The system according to claim 1, wherein the terrain interconnection box (8), the repeater interconnection box (9) and the farm interconnection box (10) include a processing unit (11, 20, 23) and a wireless network unit (13, 21,24).

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein the terrain interconnection box (8) and the farm interconnection box (10) include an interface unit (12, 25).

14. A cattle raising management process utilizing a system as defined by claim 1, the process comprising:

storing in the terrain package (1) at least one feature of at least one animal;

transmitting said at least one feature to the farm package (3).

15. The process according to claim 14, wherein the transmission of said at least one feature to the farm package (3) is performed via the propagation package (2).

16. The process according to claim 15, wherein the transmission of said at least one feature to the farm package (3) is performed via any one of the packages (1, 2, 3).

17. A cattle raising management system comprising:

a plurality of terrain packages, each terrain package of the plurality of terrain packages including

a device (4) for interaction with the cattle, and

a terrain intercommunication box (8) connected to the device (4) for interaction with the cattle;

at least one propagation package (2) which includes a repeater intercommunication box (9); and

at least one farm package (3) which includes a farm intercommunication box (10) and a computer (22) connected to the farm intercommunication box (10),

wherein the terrain intercommunication box (8) in the each terrain package of the plurality of terrain packages is configured to

wirelessly communicate with the repeater intercommunication box (9), and

wirelessly communicate with the farm intercommunication box (10),

wherein the repeater intercommunication box (9) is configured to

wirelessly communicate with the terrain intercommunication box (8), and

wirelessly communicate with the farm intercommunication box (10),

wherein the farm intercommunication box (10) is configured to

wirelessly communicate with the terrain intercommunication box (8), and

wirelessly communicate with the repeater intercommunication box (9), and

wherein the terrain intercommunication box (8), the repeater intercommunication box (9), and the farm intercommunication box (10) form a wireless network with each other,

wherein said network formed by the terrain intercommunication box (8), the repeater intercommunication box (9) and the farm intercommunication box (10) is a mesh network.