IoT-Based Cow’s Daily Monitoring For Productivity

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AIT LHOUSS MEHDI RACHID BOUHOUCH

ENSIAS, Rabat, Morocco ENSIAS, Rabat, Morocco
mehdi [email protected] rachid [email protected]

FOUAD SAFIRI OMAR BOUDHAR

ENSIAS, Rabat, Morocco ENSIAS, Rabat, Morocco
fouad [email protected] omar [email protected]

M. ABDELLATIF KOBBANE KHALID NAFIL

Department Web and Mobile engineering Department Web and Mobile engineering
ENSIAS, Rabat, Morocco ENSIAS, Rabat, Morocco
[email protected] [email protected]
SUPERVISOR COORDINATOR

Abstract—Livestock farming is under threat today more than the environment around them. This includes a dizzying array
ever by many different factors. It seems now is the time to of objects of all shapes and sizes, ranging from self-driving
optimize it as much as possible. One way is to replace traditional cars with complex sensors that detect objects in their path
methods with IoT based ones using sensors, devices and Artificial
Intelligence. This paper is a project proposal for an automated to connected footballs that can track how far and fast they
system designed to monitor livestock and act accordingly. The are thrown and record those statistics via an app for future
architecture is composed of simple hardware devices, a cloud training purposes[3]. In our context, devices and objects with
realtime database, low-cost sensors, and an android application. built in sensors are connected to microcontrollers which in
The end result expected is a farm prototype with less manual turn send data to a cloud database via Wifi, this data can
intervention as possible, and a machine learning model capable
of predicting a recurring aspect within this environment. then be analyzed to pinpoint exactly what information is
Keywords—IoTs, Internet of Things, IoT, sensor, smart farm- useful and what can safely be ignored. This information can
ing, livestock be used to detect patterns, make recommendations, detect
possible problems before they occur and control motors and
I. I NTRODUCTION such accordingly. Thus, the aim of this project is to leverage
Since humans learned to domesticate cows, chicken and IoT technologies to build a smart environment around farm
other farm animals, we have relied on them to meet our animals.
nutritional needs as well as other important needs, such as
clothing and transportation, thus allowing us to reach the II. S YSTEM MODEL
level of civilization we’re currently at. However, a number of
challenges are compromising this prosperity; climate change, The monitoring system is composed of hardware compo-
overpopulation and lack of fresh water to cite a few. In nents, the cloud database, and the end-user application. Hard-
conjunction with the rise with these challenges, an important ware components include the Raspberry Pi, an Arduino UNO
technology saw the light of day. Internet of Things also known microcontroller, an Arduino MKR WiFi 1010 microcontroller
as IoT. In a nutshell, IoT is the concept of connecting any mounted on the MKR IoT Carrier, and sensors such as the
device to the Internet and to other connected devices, or of GPS module and the temperature and flame sensors.
making ordinary objects capable of doing so by attaching
connectable devices to them. The Internet of Things is a A. Features planned
massive network of interconnected things and people, all of • Location tracking of animals to prevent escapes and
which collect and share data about how they are used and dangerous outcomes.
 • Smart containers of food and water that fill automatically 3) Arduino UNO: The arduino passes sensor data to the
based on time or other factors. Raspberry and controlling signals from the latter to the motors
• An alarm system that opens doors of barns and other and pumps
places that house animals to save lives during fire.
• Sensors that are placed on animals legs and/or necks to
count steps, distance, analyse behaviour and further.
B. Architecture

4) MKR Wifi 1010: Due to its’ built in connectivity using

either Bluetooth or Wifi, the MKR will be used for any signals
or information needed to be sent wirelessly to the Raspberry.

1) Raspberry Pi: The Raspberry acts as the brain of the

system, it’s the one responsible for sending sensor data to the
database, sending controlling signals to the motors through the
Arduino UNO or the MKR, analysing any data including the
camera footage and running machine learning algorithms

5) Sensors: Sensors include but not limited to GPS module,

RFID module, temperature sensor, flame sensor and more.

2) Raspberry Pi Camera: The camera is used for object 6) Motors Pumps: Motors pumps can be used to perform
detection, surveillance actions depending on available data such as filling the water
tank.

7) Android Application: The end-user can use this app to

control monitor the farm.
 R EFERENCES
[1] https://www.iotforall.com
[2] https://docs.arduino.cc
[3] https://www.ibm.com/blogs/internet-of-things/what-is-the-iot
[4] https://medium.com/free-code-camp/iot-prototyping-with-firebase-
doing-more-with-less-2f5c746dac8b

8) Firebase Realtime Database: Firebase Realtime DB

enables you to get up and running quickly and was preferred
instead of a MQTT broker due to its’ simple architecture (not
needing to implement a MQTT broker and MQTT clients on
each part) and the data persistence aspect provided by the
DB. In fact, the Realtime database allows clients to connect
to it and then maintain an open bidirectional connection via
websockets. Then if any client pushes data to the database it
will be triggered and (in this case) inform all connected clients
that it has been changed by sending them the newly saved data
[4].

III. R ESULT
For the moment we cannot present the results of our project
because we are still in the research and development part and
it’s not done yet.
C ONCLUSION
The system is a promising prototype that enables farmers
to be gently introduced to high level technologies. It allows
them to visualise statistics about their cattle, their activity,
and the state of objects around them. In addition, the farmer
can, more or less, control some devices remotely. Due to the
team’s inexperience, the system can be greatly improved on
all fronts. For starters, it could use wireless sensors more
often using Bluetooth, Wi-fi or Zigbee protocols. It could also
vastly ameliorate in the Machine Learning part by training
the model further and upgrading its’ accuracy. Another aspect
of enhancement would be the end-user application which run
faster and respond more intuitively to the user’s commands,
and finally there should be a big emphasis on improving
security of the IoT devices due to them being frequently the
target of cyberattacks.