Design of Android-Based Integrated Management System for Livestock Barns

Abstract

Smartphones have a feature that could search and process information in real-time via wireless Internet such as 3G networks and WiFi networks etc., and users could directly add and remove the desired application programs. In order to monitor environments of livestock barns in real-time and actively respond when problems are arisen in the livestock barn by using such features of smartphones, it is proposed an integrated management system for livestock barns based on the Android. The Android-based integrated management system for livestock barns proposed in this paper collects environmental information of livestock barns in real-time through sensors and image processing equipments installed in the livestock barn, and stores the environmental information into a DB on the environmental server. It is constituted as a form to provide information for livestock barns to smartphone users by processing the stored information through an XML parser.