Behavioral Fingerprinting: Acceleration Sensors for Identifying Changes in Livestock Health

During disease or toxin challenges, the behavioral activities of grazing animals alter in response to adverse situations, potentially providing an indicator their welfare status. Behavioral changes such as feeding behavior, rumination and physical behavior well expressive can serve indicators animal health welfare. Sometimes are subtle occur gradually, often missed by infrequent visual monitoring until condition becomes acute. There is growing popularity use sensors for health. Acceleration have been designed attach ears, jaws, noses, collars legs detect cattle sheep. So far, some automated acceleration with high accuracies found capacity remotely monitor patterns These potential identify farm which indicate a deterioration Here, we review current accelerometer systems evidence they application directions future solutions automatically early detection concerns animals.