Sensible dairy farms are utilizing AI scanners to observe cows’ well being

Know-how being trialled on UK farms collects each day information on cows’ weight, physique situation and mobility, serving to to establish people in want of therapy

By Christa Lesté-Lasserre

An overhead scanning system mixed with synthetic intelligence is routinely assessing cows’ well being standing twice a day on dozens of “smart” dairy farms throughout the UK.

3D cameras movie the animals’ backs as they depart the milking barn, whereas sensors learn their particular person identification tags. The related computer systems then use machine studying to course of the info, offering crucial each day details about every cow’s weight, physique situation, and mobility, says Wenhao Zhang on the College of the West of England (UWE) in Bristol, UK. …