Tratamento de dados de alimentadores automatizados de suínos

Abstract

Automated animal feed intake registration systems provide data that supports academic research and supports farmers decisions. The Osborne company’s FIRE electronic pig feeder consists of a bay in which the animal enters to feed itself, predetermined amount of feed is deposited and weighed in the feeder, a load cell positioned above the bay weighs the animal and the earring equipped with RFID identifies which animal is in the station. The data collected by the system is stored temporarily in a central unit, later it must be transferred to a computer where it will be processed. Feeding animals is naturally a shaken and vibrating task, leading to fluctuations in weight measurements and radiofrequency identification failures, thus generating errors in recorded information. The proposal of this project is the development of software that should filter data received from the automatic feeder, provide an interface to view data and study the feasibility of including temperature and humidity records to the data collected. Critical processing of data is the final part of an automation system and the construction of this tool should increase the accuracy and reliability of the system.