Abstract: An animal monitoring system, comprising a real time location system (RTLS) for individually identifying and tracking the movements of tagged animals in three dimensions within a monitoring zone, and a component for discriminating between different activities of at least one animal based upon the location of the animal's tag within the zone.
Abstract: An animal monitoring system, comprising at least one tag attachable to an animal, a real time location system (RTLS) for determining the three dimensional position of said at least one tag within a monitoring zone, orientation determining means for determining the orientation of said at least one tag, and discriminating means for discriminating between different activities of the at least one animal based upon the location and orientation of the animal's tag within the monitoring zone.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 10, 2009
Publication date:
December 8, 2011
Applicant:
FAIRE (NI) LIMITED
Inventors:
Brendan O'Hare, Declan O'Hare, Jonathan Lee
Abstract: An animal monitoring system, comprising a real time location system (RTLS) for individually identifying and tracking the movements of tagged animals in three dimensions within a monitoring zone, and means for discriminating between different activities of at least one animal based upon the location of the animal's tag within the zone.