A Smart Health Monitoring System for Animal

Summary

A prototype of smart animal health monitoring system powered by RSL10-SENSE (A BLE development kit ) for real time monitoring of the physiological parameters of animal such as body temperature, humidity and heart rate has been presented. The deceive consists of several wearable sensors that gives the information related to their health status and user can be easily access those data using the mobile apps.

Introduction

Animal Healthcare ensures that farmed animals are healthy, disease free and well looked after. It also aims at preventing or managing – outbreaks of serious animal diseases, and in doing so support the farmers, protect the welfare of farmed animals.

The animal health monitoring device collects the health parameter information via sensors. The RSL10-SENSE is responsible for data collection. It also transmit data to RSL10-SENSE mobile apps via BLE. The RSL10-SENSE control apps upload data on cloud, so sensed data can be found on internet from anywhere. Farmer or dairy owner can access the sensed information using an android apps(a customized mobile apps was developed for visualizing data).

This monitoring system will help to reduce the mortality loss and other economic losses since its continuously records the health parameters of animals. The dairy owners or farmers can detect the disease in early stage by analyzing the health parameters. Early stage disease detection reduces the mortality rate. Thus this system can be quite helpful for the farmers.

Mobile apps was used for monitoring the health status of animals.

The list of features of the system are given bellow:

• Real time monitoring
• Push notification based on health parameter
• Data storage on cloud
• Historical data visualization
• Admin panel

Building the Device

The list of components needed for building this device are given bellow:

• RSL10-SENSE (main controller board)
• Pulse sensor (MAX30100)
• Connecting wire
• Enclosure

Connect the pulse sensor according to the circuit diagram.

Broker Setup

CloudMQTT Broker service is used here for sending and storing the data. An account is needed. if you don't have any account, please perform the sign in.

After login in your account (from details tab), you need to copy some information such as, server, User, password and port etc. Those information are require for connecting your device to the broker.

Setting up your RSL10Sense Apps

The information collected from CloudMQTT broker is used here.

server      : xxxxxxxx.cloudmqtt.com 
User        : xxxxxxx
Password    : xxxxxxx
Port        : xxxxxxx

RSL10Sense Apps with CloudMQTT broker (setting video)

Data Transmission Testing

Mobile Apps

We have developed a cloud connected mobile apps for visualizing the sensor data. The screenshots of mobile apps are given bellow:

Limitation

Currently, we have not successfully connected the heart rate sensor with this device. The Dummy heart rate data was shown by the Mobile apps.

Video Demonstration

Building Enclosure

The cardboard version enclosure is used here. We have a plan to build a 3D printed model enclosure for this device.

Reference

• Kumari, Seema, and Sumit Kumar Yadav. "Development of IoT Based Smart Animal Health Monitoring System Using Raspberry Pi." International Journal of Advanced Studies of Scientific Research 3.8 (2018).