ICT in large and small dairy systems – DairyICT
This multidisciplinary project seeks to integrate and extend existing state of the art technologies to ensure sustainable and responsible management of dairy units, with focus on cow health, milk quality and reduced emissions. We shall focus on milk metabolomic methods for determination of metabolic health, biomarker technologies for assessment of systemic health and accelerometer collars for measuring various activities including feeding behaviour, and hence intake. We shall also have access to NIR technology for feed quality assessment and rumen-bolus technology for measurment of rumen pH. We have advanced teleonomic technologies that will enable us to integrate these input data into decision support tools. Our technologies will monitor animals and environment, detect deviations from the normal state and either respond automatically to restore the normal state or issue an alert to husbandry staff. We have access to a range of dairy units for evaluation of the technologies.
Project coordination
Nicolas Friggens (UMR0791 MoSAR Modélisation Systémique Appliquée aux Ruminants) – nicolas.friggens@agroparistech.fr
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Partner
University of Copenhagen
UNEW Newcastle University
STRATH University of Strathclyde
UNIBE University of Bern
TEAGASC Research Officer,Teagasc, Fermoy
AU Aarhus University
SAC Scottish Agricultural College
UNIPD University of Padua
INRA UMR0791 MoSAR Modélisation Systémique Appliquée aux Ruminants
Help of the ANR 214,000 euros
Beginning and duration of the scientific project:
March 2013
- 36 Months
