Societal Impact


Our proposed project will establish an animal monitoring system, which can provide an assessment of individual animal biometrics, behavior, and location, enabling farmers to respond to this data in real time. We expect this novel data availability will facilitate improved farming practices such that farmers will be able to meet the needs of individual animals more quickly and accurately. The proposed research could be beneficial to the fields of semiconductor devices, autonomous power IoT devices, wireless communications including 5G and beyond, machine learning, statistical signal detection, and agricultural production. To the best of our knowledge, the proposed animal monitoring system has not been applied in pastured animal production. The proposed system will open a new horizon for smart farms to inspire other researchers and entrepreneurs to follow.