Poultry Welfare Monitoring Synchronizes Video and Process Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for monitoring the well-being of live poultry during slaughter lack comprehensive data integration and accessibility, making it difficult to demonstrate compliance with animal welfare regulations, as they rely on limited recording capacities and human observation, which is disconnected from other data sources.
Innovation Solution
A method that synchronizes video recordings of poultry reactions with management and process parameters, creating a single video file that combines images of animal reactions with monitoring data, using a communication protocol between the video interface, automation PLCs, and an industrial processor to produce a synchronized document that can be easily consulted and stored, ensuring compliance with regulations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If video recording of poultry reactions is performed separately from process data, then visual verification of animal well-being is achieved, but data accessibility and compliance demonstration capability remain limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges video recordings with process data by superimposing managing and process parameters directly onto the video images, creating a single integrated video file that combines visual verification of animal reactions with corresponding operational data, thereby eliminating data silos and improving both information completeness and accessibility
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a communication protocol as an intermediary layer between the video interface and automation PLCs, enabling seamless data exchange and synchronization between previously disconnected systems, allowing video data and process parameters to be integrated without direct coupling of the underlying systems
2Reliability
If multiple separate data sources are maintained for monitoring parameters, then comprehensive data collection is achieved, but compliance demonstration becomes difficult due to disconnected information
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate data sources into a single integrated video file that contains both visual recordings of animal reactions and superimposed process parameters, creating a unified compliance documentation system that maintains data reliability while simplifying verification procedures
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a synchronized copy of process data from the automation PLCs and overlays it onto video recordings, producing a composite document that serves as irrefutable proof of proper system management without requiring complex cross-referencing of multiple separate data sets
3Measurement precision
If manual observation with video camera is used to verify animal reactions, then visual monitoring is achieved, but the data remains disconnected from other system parameters
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback by automatically synchronizing video recording with process data through a communication protocol that continuously exchanges information between the video interface and automation PLCs, ensuring that visual verification of animal well-being is immediately connected with corresponding operational parameters without manual intervention
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual observation and separate data collection with an automated system that uses communication protocols to electronically synchronize video recordings with process parameters, eliminating the disconnection between visual verification and system data while maintaining measurement precision
Data Source
AI summary
A method for monitoring live poultry intended for slaughter includes checking managing parameters and process parameters of poultry flocks from breeding farms, and monitoring transportation of the flocks to a slaughterhouse and handling thereof at the slaughterhouse. Gas stunning parameters of the poultry are checked prior to throat-cutting thereof. Video shooting of the poultry's reactions during the stunning step is done to visually verify a degree of well-being thereof. Computer records are made available wherein a single video file corresponds to each poultry flock or group of flocks in which images of the visible reactions of the poultry are combined and synchronized with said managing and process parameters.