Digital Agritechnology
Robotics and Systems for Agriculture and Livestock Production
- 1st Edition - August 24, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Toby Mottram
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 7 6 3 4 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 7 6 3 5 - 1
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Request a sales quoteDigital Agritechnology: Robotics and Systems for Agriculture and Livestock Production describes how systems acquire and use data in livestock production and agricultural systems, and how researchers can extract and aggregate efficiencies. The origins of digital agritechnology are decades old, with robotic milkers available for over 20 years and GPS-based tractor controls existing for nearly 30. However, only a few capabilities of these sensing and control systems are used. This book addresses the need to educate agriculturists on the full usage scale of these arable and livestock systems.
- Features how-to guides on extracting and analyzing data from digital systems
- Describes quality standards for data security and transmission
- Focuses on state-of-the-art systems in livestock production, along with arable and indoor agriculture
Researchers and academics in precision livestock farming/precision animal agriculture and agricultural engineering; farm practitioners
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- List of contributors
- About the editor
- Foreword
- Preface
- Chapter 1. An introduction to digital agritechnology
- Background
- Basic technologies for digital agritechnology
- How this book is organised
- Chapter 2. From data to information
- Introduction
- The future
- Why data?
- Data in context
- Data representation
- Data encoding
- Number bases
- Character encoding
- Data types
- Data validation and verification
- Data operations
- Data processing
- Data storage
- Data transmission
- Rendering
- Data classification
- Data management
- Security
- Data trends
- Challenges
- Chapter 3. ISOBUS – standards and uses for data from farm machinery
- Introduction
- Short history of ISOBUS
- Components and network
- ISOBUS functionalities
- ISOBUS Shortcut button (ISB)
- File Server (FS)
- Compatibility between ISOBUS systems
- AEF recognised test laboratories
- AEF ISOBUS Database
- AEF Plugfest
- Future developments on ISOBUS
- Chapter 4. Field robotics for harvesting: A review of field robotics approaches for harvesting
- Introduction
- The reality of harvesting
- Current state of the art
- Translation from research to commercialisation
- Case studies
- The future
- Chapter 5. Capturing agricultural data using AgriRover for smart farming
- Introduction
- SmartFarm: a holistic philosophy for UK–China Agritech collaboration philosophy
- Design methodology for a mobile data collection platform
- Overview of navigation algorithms and autonomous field vehicle platforms
- UK–China SmartFarm data flow diagram
- Conclusions and future work
- Chapter 6. Health and welfare monitoring of dairy cows
- Introduction
- Types of sensor systems
- Monitoring cow health
- Animal welfare
- Conclusions
- Chapter 7. Fertility monitoring of cattle
- Introduction
- Importance of fertility monitoring
- Longevity
- Biology of dairy reproduction
- Systems of dairy cow fertility management
- Digital systems for fertility management
- Combined measurements
- Measuring hormones in milk
- Discussion: towards a system to improve fertility management
- Appendix 1 dictionary of terms in fertility of dairy cows
- Appendix 2 Definitions of Accuracy
- Chapter 8. Resilient food infrastructure and location-based categorisation of urban farms
- Introduction
- Urban agriculture and categorisation of structures
- Discussion and conclusion
- Chapter 9. Critical review of smart agri-technology solutions for urban food growing
- Introduction
- COVID-19 and food security issues in cities
- Macro scale: smart food growing technologies
- Planting and survey technologies: drones and remote sensing
- Micro scale: food growing technologies for homes
- Discussion and conclusion
- Chapter 10. Agriculture 4.0: data platforms in food supply
- Introduction
- Data—who owns and sells it
- Agriculture 4.0 market models
- Exemplar: the livestock production chain
- Agriculture 4.0 technologies in the value chain
- How to improve supply chain provenance
- An embryonic blockchain platform—veterinary medicine surveillance
- Discussion and conclusions
- Chapter 11. Risk assessment of introducing Digital-Agritech
- Introduction
- Design risks
- Generics
- Discussion and conclusions
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 24, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 288
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128176344
- eBook ISBN: 9780128176351
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Toby Mottram
Dr Toby Mottram FREng, FIAgrE, PhD, MSc., BA(Hons), BSc. began his career as a working herdsman and then retrained as an engineer, moving into research and teaching before going into digital agritechnology start-ups. During his academic career he co- invented robotic milking, developed cow breath sampling, in-line milk analysis and the rumen telemetry bolus. He has been active in policy discussions in Defra coordinating greenhouse gas research 2010-2013 and farm animal welfare. After Silsoe Research closed he focused on commercialising products from research particularly the pH bolus (eCow), antimicrobial monitoring (VirtualVet) and most significantly automated milk progesterone measurement by lateral flow test (Milkalyser). The products combine sensor technology with web enabled data management systems. He completed a BBSRC/Royal Society of Edinburgh Enterprise Fellowship in 2016 to develop subsequently raised £1.6 m to develop and demonstrate the prototype LFA analyser. Milkalyser was acquired by Lely the market leader in robotic milking in 2020. eCow was acquired by Wolfhound Analytics in 2021. He is now looking for new challenges in agricultural engineering.
Affiliations and expertise
FREng, FIAgrE, Digital Agritech Ltd, former Douglas Bomford Trust Chair of Farm Mechanisation, Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester, UKRead Digital Agritechnology on ScienceDirect