A Lora-Based and Maintenance-Free Cattle Monitoring System for Alpine Pastures and Remote Locations
Lukas Schulthess, Fabrice Longchamp, Christian Vogt, Michele Magno

TL;DR
This paper introduces a maintenance-free, LoRa-based cattle monitoring system that tracks livestock activity in remote alpine pastures, demonstrating extended battery life and reliable operation through experimental validation.
Contribution
It presents a novel, maintenance-free IoT sensor system utilizing LoRaWAN and energy harvesting for long-term cattle monitoring in challenging terrains.
Findings
Achieves up to 6 months battery life with solar energy harvesting.
Successfully monitored cattle behavior over a three-day trial.
Demonstrates reliable operation in remote, rugged environments.
Abstract
The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) is boosting the proliferation of sensors and smart devices in industry and daily life. Continuous monitoring IoT systems are also finding applications in agriculture, particularly in the realm of smart farming. The adoption of wearable sensors to record the activity of livestock has garnered increasing interest. Such a device enables farmers to locate, monitor, and constantly assess the health status of their cattle more efficiently and effectively, even in challenging terrain and remote locations. This work presents a maintenance-free and robust smart sensing system that is capable of tracking cattle in remote locations and collecting activity parameters, such as the individual's grazing- and resting time. To support the paradigm of smart farming, the cattle tracker is capable of monitoring the cow's activity by analyzing data from an…
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TopicsAgricultural Systems and Practices
