Lean management is slowly introduced into pig farming industry
Network communication is the combination of communication
and computer technology. Network communication enables to collect,store,
process and transmit data in the form of pictures and texts so that information
resources can be fully shared.The above technologies have been applied into
automatic pig feeding systems , farming environment monitoring , pig disease
monitoring, etc.Sunproposed a pig excretion behavior automatic monitoring
method based on motion characteristics. This method features a pig tracking
model characterized by the position of the center of mass of the moving target
and the ratio of the minimum circumscribed rectangle length to diameter.
Mackenzie used industry data, multiple impact indicators, and system
uncertainty to investigate and quantify the environmental impact of commercial
pig farming in Canada for the first time. He proposed a method to determine the
environmental impact of modeling pig farming. The model likely assesses whether
future changes in Canadian pig production systems could significantly reduce
the environmental burden of these systems.Parsons used visual image analysis to
control the food quantity and pig weight, and recorded feed intake per pig per
day for pig growth and pollutant discharge.
Costard analyzed data from 709 pig farms and proposed
adjustments to livestock practices and control measures of pig farms in
Madagascar using multi-factor analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis
.Although there are many research and practical efforts made on promoting pig
farming industry, smart pig farming is still in its infancy stage. This paper
reviews these enabling technologies of NGAI, Industrial Internet, Internet of
things and cloud computing, vertical
grow table and revisits the requirements for developing an intelligent pig
farming system with the definition of IIP4MPF platform as follows. The IIP4MPF
takes business integration platform as the carrier with the service provisions
of Internet of things data management and control, vehicle logistics
management, RFID middle ware, electronic tags and other software and hardware
support in the terms of farm, laboratory, vehicle and management office.The
platform consists of services of a unified digital pig farming portal,farming
management, disease surveillance, breeding management system, intelligent
service management. The platform implements the digitalization of breeding
elements and the digital management of breeding process so that it improves the
efficiency and profitability of pig farming.
The farming mode is shifted from industrialization to
digitalization and intelligentization with the development of new generation
information and communication technology.There is an urgent need to develop a
general digital pig farming platform,realize the automatical control of farming
environment, intelligent pig breeding, and improve the intelligent pig farming
and online services. There are three core functional modules for the IIP4MPF
platform. The first module is for digital farming data collection, integration
and sharing; second module for unified farming data processing; third module
for digital data management for a company. The platform allows the information
interaction between different departments in a pig farm, provides key business
application systems, laboratory software and decision-making systems. It is an
efficient platform for the management of farms, laboratories, vehicles and
officers.With the integration of computer, spatial information, network communication
and electronic engineering, the platform aims to realize the digitalization of
pig farming elements such as biological, environmental, technical, social and
economic elements, farming process and management. It also aims to realize
digital farm design, farming visualization and intelligent system control and
finally reduce cost and increase pig farming efficiency.
The Application Layer supports user access to multiple businesses, and provides different access permissions for different types of users. The PAAS provides applications with a variety of public and common services which are encapsulated in a certain form into independent modules.Through the PAAS, each application system only needs to focus on its own core businesses while ignoring irrelative business functions. The DAAS manages and provides a shared database while integrating multi-source and heterogeneous
data involved in pig farming. The DAAS enables to configure a specific database
dedicated to a special application and performs unified database management
through metadata and information resource directories.Information System Layer:
This layer integrates varied organizational systems and facilitates error-free
transactions and production, supporting a variety of business functions such as
ERP, traceability, and lab management system, WMS, OA system, etc.Facilities
Layer: This layer provides basic hardware and software for pig farming. The
facilities mainly includes infrastructure, monitoring/management hardware,
computing and storage equipment, networking and communication devices, software
such as operating systems, middleware servers and system software.