LIVESTOCK HOUSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF

• US 20160120144A1
• Filed: 08/13/2015
• Published: 05/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: KIM, Keo Sik, KANG, Hyun Seo, OH, Seung Hun, KIM, Jeong Eun, PARK, Hyoung Jun, LIM, Kwon Seob, JEON, Eun Kyoung, HEO, Young Soon, RYU, Ji Hyoung
• Application Number:
  US14/825,919
• Publication Number:
  US 20160120144A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 1/0047 Air-conditioning, e.g. ventilation, of animal housings
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 1/0052 Arrangement of fans or blowers
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 31/20 Heating arrangements ; Ventilation

Abstract

Provided is a livestock house management system for managing a rearing environment of livestock. The livestock house management system includes an environment monitoring sensor unit installed in each of divided zones within a livestock house and configured to measure an environment variable indicating a state of a rearing environment of each of the zones, analyze the measured environment variable, and independently generate a command corresponding to an abnormal situation of each of the zones when the abnormal situation of each of the zones is checked, and a livestock house facility control unit installed in each of the zones and configured to receive the command from the environment monitoring sensor unit installed in a corresponding zone according to a wired or wireless communication scheme, and drive a livestock house facility according to the received command to independently control a rearing environment of each of the zones.

Claims

1. A livestock house management system for managing a rearing environment of livestock, the livestock house management system comprising:

an environment monitoring sensor unit installed in each of divided zones within a livestock house and configured to measure an environment variable indicating a state of a rearing environment of each of the zones, analyze the measured environment variable to check whether an abnormal situation of each of the zones occurs, and independently generate a command corresponding to the abnormal situation of each of the zones when the abnormal situation of each of the zones is checked; and

a livestock house facility control unit installed in each of the zones and configured to receive the command from the environment monitoring sensor unit, installed in a corresponding zone according to a wired or wireless communication scheme, and drive a livestock house facility according to the received command to independently control a rearing environment of each of the zones.

2. The livestock house management system of claim 1, wherein the environment monitoring sensor unit comprises:

an environment monitoring sensor configured to measure the environment variable including at least one of a temperature value, a humidity value, a concentration value of a harmful gas, a pressure value per unit area and an illuminance value;

a central processor configured to generate a command corresponding to the abnormal situation; and

a data communication unit configured to transmit the command to the livestock house facility control unit according to a wireless communication scheme.

3. The livestock house management system of claim 2, wherein the central processor generates the command for driving the livestock house facility according to a previously scheduled environment handling process.

4. The livestock house management system of claim 2, wherein the environment monitoring sensor includes at least one of a temperature sensor configured to measure the temperature value, a humidity sensor configured to measure the humidity sensor, a harmful gas sensor configured to measure a concentration value of the harmful gas, an illumination sensor configured to measure illuminance, and a differential pressure sensor configured to measure a pressure distribution within the livestock house.

5. The livestock house management system of claim 2, wherein the data communication unit transmits the command to the livestock house facility control unit according to the wireless communication scheme including an IETF CoAP protocol as the Internet of things (IoT) communication standard and a ZigBee™

communication interface.

6. The livestock house management system of claim 1, wherein the livestock house facility control unit drives the livestock house facility including at least one of a lighting system, a ventilating fan, a spray, and a scraper.

7. The livestock house management system of claim 6, wherein the livestock house facility control unit comprises:

a data communication unit configured to receive the command according to the wireless communication scheme;

a central processor configured to generate a control command for driving the livestock house facility according to the received command; and

a control unit configured to drive the livestock house facility according to the control command.

8. The livestock house management system of claim 7, wherein the data communication unit receives the command according to the wireless communication scheme including an IETF CoAP protocol as the Internet of things (IoT) communication standard and a ZigBee™

communication interface.

9. The livestock house management system of claim 6, wherein the central processor receives a command for controlling power supply to the livestock house facility, a command for controlling illuminance, a color temperature, and dimming of the lighting system, a command for controlling a rotation speed and torque of the ventilating fan, and a command for controlling an operation of the scraper through the data communication unit, and generates the control command corresponding to the received command.

10. The livestock house management system of claim 1, wherein the livestock house is a high-rise poultry house in which a mesh screen spaced apart from a floor by a predetermined height and allowing livestock waste to be dropped to the floor is installed, and the scraper is installed on the floor below the mesh screen.

11. A livestock house management method for managing a rearing environment of livestock, the livestock house management method comprising:

measuring, by an environment monitoring sensor unit installed in each of divided zones within a livestock house, an environment variable indicating a rearing environment situation of each of the zones;

analyzing, by the environment monitoring sensor unit installed in each of the zones, the measured environment variable and determining whether each of the zones is in an abnormal situation;

when the environment monitoring sensor unit determines the abnormal situation, generating a command to handle the abnormal situation and transmitting the command to a livestock house facility control unit installed in each of the zones; and

receiving, by the livestock house facility control unit, the command, and driving a livestock house facility according to the received command to independently control a rearing environment of each of the zones.

12. The livestock house management method of claim 11, wherein the measuring of an environment variable comprises:

measuring the environment variable including at least one of a temperature value, a humidity value, a concentration value of a harmful gas, an illuminance value of each of the zones, a differential pressure value indicating a pressure distribution within the livestock house, and a period of time during which a concentration value of the harmful gas is maintained.

13. The livestock house management method of claim 12, wherein the controlling of a rearing environment of each of the zones comprises:

driving the livestock house facility including at least one of a lighting system, a ventilating fan, a spray, and a scraper according to the received command.

14. The livestock house management method of claim 13, wherein the controlling of a rearing environment of each of the zones comprises:

comparing the period of time during which the concentration value of the harmful gas is maintained with a preset period of time; and

driving the scraper when the period of time during which concentration value of the harmful gas is maintained exceeds the preset period of time.

15. The livestock house management method of claim 11, wherein the transmitting of a command to the livestock facility control unit installed in each of the zones comprises:

generating the command including at least one of a command for controlling power supply to the livestock house facility, a command for controlling illuminance, a color temperature and dimming of the lighting system, a command for controlling a rotation speed and torque of the ventilating fan, and a command for controlling an operation of the scraper.

16. The livestock house management method of claim 11, wherein the transmitting of a command to the livestock facility control unit installed in each of the zones comprises:

transmitting the command to the livestock house facility control unit according to the wireless communication scheme including an IETF CoAP protocol as the Internet of things (IoT) communication standard and a ZigBee™

communication interface.