BREEDING SUPPORT SYSTEM

• US 20080147458A1
• Filed: 10/18/2007
• Published: 06/19/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Oki Semiconductor Company Limited (ROHM Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: OKI Electric Industry Company Limited
• Inventors: Yamazaki, Akihiro, Suzuki, Kouichi, Kusano, Takahiro, Nishii, Kenji, Gotoh, Shuzo, Hayashi, Hirokazu
• Application Number:
  US11/874,363
• Publication Number:
  US 20080147458A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 11/008 incorporating GPS
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 29/00 Other apparatus for animal husbandry
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 29/005 Monitoring or measuring activity, e.g. detecting heat or mating
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management

Abstract

A breeding support system including at least one information terminal for processing breeding information associated with breeding work of at least one individual breeding object, the system comprising: individual information collecting means for collecting individual information indicating a time-variable change of an individual condition of the individual breeding object; specified breeding work requirement determination means for determining a requirement for a specified breeding work from among all breeding work in accordance with a profile of the time-variable change of the individual condition; breeding guidance generation means for generating at least one breeding guidance announcing a requirement of the specified breeding work determined; and breeding guidance supply means for supplying the generated breeding guidance as the breeding information to the information terminal.

Claims

1. A breeding support system including at least one information terminal for processing breeding information associated with breeding work of at least one individual breeding object, the system comprising:

individual information collecting means for collecting individual information indicating a time-variable change of an individual condition of the individual breeding object;

specified breeding work requirement determination means for determining a requirement for a specified breeding work from among all breeding work in accordance with a profile of the time-variable change of the individual condition;

breeding guidance generation means for generating at least one breeding guidance announcing a requirement of the specified breeding work determined; and

breeding guidance supply means for supplying the generated breeding guidance as the breeding information to the information terminal.

2. The support system according to claim 1, wherein the individual information collecting means collects at least one of physical data indicating time-variable change of a physical condition of the individual breeding object and physiological data indicating time-variable change of a physiological condition of the individual breeding object as the individual information.

3. The support system according to claim 2, wherein the individual information collecting means collects at least one data of the number of steps and location of the breeding object as the physical data.

4. The support system according to claim 2, wherein the individual information collecting means collects at least one data of pulse rate, an amount of extracted milk, and temperature of raw milk as the physiological data.

5. The support system according to claim 1, wherein the individual information collecting means includes wireless communication means for collecting the individual information by use of a wireless communication method.

6. The support system according to claim 1, wherein the individual information collecting means includes wireless communication means for collecting the individual information by use of a wireless communication method in accordance with the ZigBee standard.

7. The support system according to claim 1, wherein the specified breeding work requirement determination means determines a requirement for a copulation work as a specified breeding work.

8. The support system according to claim 1, wherein the specified breeding work requirement determination means determines a requirement for treatment of disease as a specified breeding work.

9. The support system according to claim 1, wherein the specified breeding work requirement determination means determines a requirement to capture an individual breeding object that is outside a specified area as a specified breeding work.

10. The support system according to claim 1, wherein the specified breeding work requirement determination means determines a requirement to stop expressing milk as a specified breeding work.

11. The support system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one individual breeding object is a plurality of individual breeding objects, and the breeding guidance supply means further includes control means for controlling a display order of a plurality of breeding guidances on the information terminal in accordance with current locations of the plurality of individual breeding objects.

12. The support system according to claim 1, wherein the individual information collecting means, the specified breeding work requirement determination means, the breeding guidance generation means, and the breeding guidance supply means are included in a management server connected with a network system.

13. The support system according to claim 1, wherein the individual information is transmitted to the individual information collecting means via at least one repeater.

14. The support system according to claim 1, wherein the individual information is transmitted from a sensor attached to the individual breeding object.

15. The support system according to claim 1, wherein the breeding guidance is transmitted to the information terminal via a repeater.

16. The support system according to claim 15, wherein the information terminal is a portable terminal.

17. The support system according to claim 16, wherein the at least one individual breeding object is a plurality of individual breeding objects, and the breeding guidance supply means controls a display order of a plurality of breeding guidances on the information terminal in accordance with current locations of the plurality of individual breeding objects and current location of the information terminal.

18. A breeding support system including at least one information terminal for processing breeding information associated with breeding work of at least one individual breeding object, the system comprising:

an individual information collecting unit for collecting individual information indicating a time-variable change of an individual condition of the individual breeding object;

a specified breeding work requirement determination unit for determining a requirement for a specified breeding work from among all breeding work in accordance with a profile of the time-variable change of the individual condition;

a breeding guidance generation unit for generating at least one breeding guidance announcing a requirement of the specified breeding work determined; and

a breeding guidance supply unit for supplying the generated breeding guidance as the breeding information to the information terminal.