Vitality meter for health monitoring of anonymous animals in livestock groups
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1. A vitality sensing electronic system for monitoring the health of a livestock group, comprising:
- a vitality sensing unit attached to a sample of individual sentinels in a group of livestock, the unit configured to measure a plurality of physiological and behavioral parameters indicative of the sentinel'"'"'s health condition;
location means configured to locate each of said individual sentinels; and
a computing and storage unit communicating with said vitality sensing unit adapted to determine the group'"'"'s health based on said sample of measured parameters.
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Vitality sensing electronic system and method for monitoring the health of a livestock group, comprising: a vitality sensing unit attached to a sample of individual sentinels in a group of livestock, the unit configured to measure a plurality of physiological and behavioral parameters indicative of the sentinel'"'"'s health condition, location means configured to locate each of the individual sentinels and a computing and storage unit communicating with the vitality sensing unit adapted to determine the group'"'"'s health based on the sample of measured parameters.
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1. A vitality sensing electronic system for monitoring the health of a livestock group, comprising:
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a vitality sensing unit attached to a sample of individual sentinels in a group of livestock, the unit configured to measure a plurality of physiological and behavioral parameters indicative of the sentinel'"'"'s health condition; location means configured to locate each of said individual sentinels; and a computing and storage unit communicating with said vitality sensing unit adapted to determine the group'"'"'s health based on said sample of measured parameters. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A computerized method of monitoring health of a group of livestock, comprising the steps of:
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attaching a vitality sensing unit to a sample of individual sentinels in the group of livestock, the unit configured to measure a plurality of physiological and behavioral parameters indicative of the sentinel'"'"'s health condition; attaching locating means to one of said vitality sensing unit and said sentinel'"'"'s body for each said sentinels, the vitality sensing unit comprising processing means, communication means, a power source and a plurality of sensing devices selected from the group consisting of;
acceleration measuring means, pulse rate sensing means and temperature measuring means;measuring vitality parameters; and transmitting said measured parameters to a computing and storage and computing device adapted to determine the group'"'"'s health based on said sample of measured parameters. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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