Program

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Program

• 10.00 12.00 Fab lab research seminar
• Haakon Karlsen Solvik Gård
• Bjørn Thorstensen Telenor FoU
• Neil Gershenfeld - MIT
• 12.00 13.00 Lunch
• 13.00 15.00 Travel to Solvik Gård
• 15.00 17.00 Fab lab project demonstrations
• 17.00 - 18.00 Free time at farm
• 18.00 21.00 Dinner
• 21.00 Return to Tromsø

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The Electronic Shepard

• Traditional farming aided by modern information
  and communication technology
• Bjørn Thorstensen, Telenor R D

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Facts

• Initiated spring 2001 Solvik Gård
• Telenor Financed
• Partners
• Solvik Gård
• Telenor Mobile
• University of Tromsø
• M.I.T Media Lab
• Rafsec O.Y
• Ideos Finland O.Y

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Background
Motivation
Targeting

• automatic documentation and preservation of
• Animal health
• Animal welfare
• Food safety
• Tools to support traditional farming processes

• Consumers
• Farmers
• Vets
• Government regulations

Documentation of an animals lifecycle

• Breeding
• Birth
• ID tagging
• Grazing

• 4. Leading animals back to the farm
• 5. Feeding
• 6. Breeding programs
• 7. Slaughtering
• 8. Animal history book

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Challenges
Current technology Works!
Technology hostile environment
All this for very few
Less than 20 pr unit

• Preserve the form factor enhance with new
  capabilities
• Remotely identify an individual
• Locate/position an individual
• Collect data from sensors
• Communicate with the outside world
• Reusable
• Power for one season

End users

• Harsh weather
• No power
• Line of sight

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Flocks Sheep are flock animals

• A flock has N members where N gt 1
• A flock has a leader whose size is bigger than
  the smallest individual
• The needs of flock members are mostly identical
• One geographical area might have several flocks
• The flock leader may perform certain tasks on
  behalf of his flock members
• Interaction with other flocks or the outside
  world can be done by the flock leader.
• Flocks are basically static entities, however,
  Individuals might roam amongst the flocks for
  short periods of time

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Sheep net

• Next generation sheep net
• Base stations
• 802.11 / GPRS communication
• More range
• Positioning
• Smaller
• Cheaper
• No line of sight problems

802.11 tower at the farm

• Linux PC
• 802.11 repeater
• 802.11 access point
• Power regulator
• 433mhz receiver

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Sheep terminals
Ear tag,version 2
Old technology vs. new technology
Radio
Sensors

• More range
• Embedded IP(v6?)
• Lower freq?
• positioning

• Blood volume pulse
• Temperature

Sound chip

• Ear tag version 2
• Integrated GPS
• GPRS comm.

Bell sheep,version 2 (Mobile base station)
Bell sheep, version 1 GPS and radio
RFID
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Mobile Base station
RF Ear tag
GSM/GPRS

GPRS
Internet
End users and applications
ES server
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Ad-hoc Networking
Mobile Base station
RF Ear tag
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Positioning the main challenge
Mobile Base station
RF Ear tag
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The Production Chain- Users and Information
Farmer Consumer Slaughter Government Veterinary Re
searchers
Presentation
Breeding, Birth, Feeding, ID-Tagging, vet.
treatment
Grazing
Electronic Shepherd
Transport
Information
Slaughtering Production
Transport
Inventory
Branding
Sales?
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Remaining production chain

Slaughterhouse
The weight portal

• RF-ID
• RF-ID monitored zones
• product tags
• Sensors logging the environment

• Distribution
• Cooling chain

• Electronic animal weight
• 802.11 / GPRS communication
• Java control application

• Consumers
• Product story?
• Animal history - health
• Production history

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Solvik slaughterhouse

• RF / RFID infrastructure
• Integration with traditional telecom networks

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Consumer side
Lamb roast
Norge 642 EU
Slakteri
Slaughter date
Solvik farm slaughterhouse AS, Ørnes, 9060
LYNGSEIDET
14. October 2002
Produsent
Production date
Solvik slaughterhouse AS, Ørnes, 9060 LYNGSEIDET
16. October 2002
Cooling chain
Animal history
Born 10. mai 2002 Owner Paul I. Skogheim,
Farm Kvalvik, LYNGSEIDET Grazing
Lyngsalpene Trykk på linkene for detaljer.
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Now
Shop
Stored
Produced
Teransport
slaughtering
Production process
crumbled at 4 to 10 for 10 days, cut up, dry
salted,, vacuum packed
Weight
Class
Price/kg
Pric
Last day of use
Kr. 149,25
1,5 kg
R
Kr. 99,50
20. november 2002
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Main success criteria

• Price
• Terminal equipment
• Software platform
• Management
• Reusability
• Robustness
• Size
• Propagation
• Infrastructure availability
• Commitment from all parties of the production
  chain
• Trust!

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Why?

• Network Traffic
• 5000 Sheep in the Lyngen area
• 2 mill. Sheep in Norway