INGESTIBLE BOLUS FOR ANIMALS
First Claim
1. An ingestible bolus for monitoring a health status and geolocation of a ruminant animal, the bolus comprising:
- a location sensor for providing a geographic location information of the ruminant animal;
a physiological sensor for monitoring at least one physiological parameter of the ruminant animal;
a unique ID for identifying each of the ruminant animal;
a Radio Frequency (RF) transponder module coupled with a RF antenna for receiving and transmitting the unique ID, geographic location information and physiological parameter to at least one of;
a data center;
another ingestible bolus and a remote device.
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Abstract
An ingestible bolus for automatically monitoring location and physiological parameters including core temperature of ruminant animals. The location parameters are determined using magnetic field information and/or GPS data sensed by the sensors in the bolus and communicated along with a unique ID number and time stamp to a centralized location. A data center at the centralized location comprises a computing environment for analyzing the data received from the bolus and transfer the analyzed results including animal temperature, location to a user interface display. The temperature information is analyzed at the data center to determine the health status of the animal.
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1. An ingestible bolus for monitoring a health status and geolocation of a ruminant animal, the bolus comprising:
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a location sensor for providing a geographic location information of the ruminant animal; a physiological sensor for monitoring at least one physiological parameter of the ruminant animal; a unique ID for identifying each of the ruminant animal; a Radio Frequency (RF) transponder module coupled with a RF antenna for receiving and transmitting the unique ID, geographic location information and physiological parameter to at least one of;
a data center;
another ingestible bolus and a remote device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A system for monitoring a health status of a ruminant animal, the system comprising:
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at least one ingestible bolus configured to be disposed within a stomach of the ruminant animal, wherein the ingestible bolus comprises; a magnetic field sensor module for providing a unique magnetic field signature corresponding to a geographic location of the ruminant animal; a temperature sensor module for monitoring a core temperature of the ruminant animal; a unique ID sensor module for providing a unique ID of the ruminant animal; a Radio Frequency (RF) transponder module coupled with a RF antenna for receiving and transmitting the plurality of information comprising the unique ID, magnetic field signature and core temperature; and a data center at a centralized location comprising a computing environment for processing the plurality of information received from the ingestible bolus based on predefined algorithm and outputting results comprising geographic location, health status associated with the unique ID of the ruminant animal on a user interface. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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