Digitalization and Automation

Digitalisation offers great potential in agriculture for achieving positive effects on the environment and animal welfare. With the aid of a variety of digital measurement methods and their networking, we develop and evaluate sensor-assisted assistance systems for agriculture with the focus on sustainably controlling agricultural processes.

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Projects

DigiSchwein

Cross innovation and digitisation in animal-friendly pig farming, taking into account the protection of resources - "DigiSchwein" advise, qualify and promote

Automated data recording at livestock farming

Automated data recording at livestock farming enabels continuous online assessment of animal-related data, climate / environment data and construction data. To get an overview of the different systems on the market, a database is created, with which the systems are recorded and characterized in their functionality.

Zukunftlabor Agrar

The central aspects of the call for future laboratory are the questions of data management and interpretation, automation and autonomization of agricultural technologies and the legal framework in agricultural and food industry. Consequently the impact of digitization on the sustainability of agriculture will be analyzed.

Indikators for animal welfare - Fattening pigs

Since February 2014, livestock farmers in Germany have a legal obligation to carry out an internal company audit. Legislation requires the collection and assessment of "suitable animal-related characteristics" (animal welfare indicators)" in this context in § 11 (8) of the animal welfare act. (TierSchG, 2006), without giving details of their content, size and frequency of collection.

Automated Pig Localization in Pigsties

The current localization of pigs in pigsties can be done manually by animal observations, in a limited scope by RFID transponders or by video analysis, whereby the recognition of individual animals are problematic.

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AT Agricultural Technology