Case Studies
Livestock Health Monitoring
$5B lost annually to livestock disease. Customer needed real-time monitoring of livestock health for herds of up to 20K cattle
Results / Outcomes
Design of battery-operated implantable “e-Pill” and full-stack IoT implementation
Livestock health index transmitted through mesh network to cloud via gateway
Product currently deployed- in field trials in NE USA
System Description
Protocols Used
Radio propagation issues
Swift identification and location of diseased livestock.
Architecture, Design and Implementation of Firmware
State machine code, Acquiring sensor data using I2C, analog and digital IO
Data analysis and vital parameter extraction
Entering Low power mode when not active
Wireless data transfer using TI CC1101 radio and Simpliciti protocol stack
Buffering data to the flash memory when the ePill is out of coverage area of Access Point
Ability to roam among different Access Points
Supports configuration and status extraction from Access Point using the Simpliciti interface
Receive data from the ePill, which is implanted in the cattle, using Simpliciti wireless interface.
Transmit the received data using RS-232 interface to the Base Station.
Wireless data transfer using TI CC1101 radio and Simpliciti protocol stack.
The design is highly scalable supports up to 500 ePills at the same time.
Basic status displays based on link availability, heartbeat mechanisms.
Livestock Health Monitoring – Data Flow Diagram
