China accounts for about half the world’s pigs. Now farmers China has about 700 million of these animals, so watch out for them and take care of in time identifying the sick and weak individuals all the more difficult. To help breeders came technology company Alibaba, has developed an algorithm AI that can independently monitor the health and mood of animals — writes The Verge.
Machine vision technology will allow for automatic registration of pigs for the brand ID on the ears of animals, and a special system of recognition of sounds will be able to determine the characteristic sounds of the sick animals and warn veterinary control to prevent the epidemic.
Now IT-giant Alibaba is in the process of signing documents with Dekon Group, the country’s largest supplier of pork, and the company Tequ Group, which specializiruetsya on the production of feeds for animals. Now the farmers used to count the livestock RFID tag and special systems, radio frequency identification, in herds, numbering ten million head, it is not as effective because with such a large herd is difficult to even count the approximate number of piglets born, not to mention the fact, to give them labels. The technology, created by Alibaba, takes into consideration the number of pigs using the ID printed on their backs. While the system will only count them that way, but then the developers are going to offer a more comprehensive solution, for example, involving the use of infrared sensors to assess the state of their health and well-being.
Original transaction amount is around five million dollars, but mass adoption is scheduled for late 2019.
AI system Alibaba will help farmers to monitor the pigs
Vyacheslav Larionov