A vehicle is provided that includes a vehicle body defining a cabin interior and comprising a front row of seats and a rear row of seats, a plurality of seats located within the cabin interior, and a monitoring system for detecting and monitoring a pet or passenger within the cabin interior. The vehicle also includes a movable center console positioned between a pair of the forward row of seats and forward of the rear row of seats and comprising a holder for holding a drink container, and a controller processing signals generated by the monitoring system and determining a location of the detected pet or passenger on the rear row of seats based on the processed signals, the controller further controlling the movable console between a forward first position and a rearward second position closer to the rear row of seats.

The present disclosure discloses an intelligent pet calling device, including a collar detachably connected to the body or head of a pet, and a functional box detachably arranged on the collar; a wireless connection module and a voice device are arranged in the functional box; the functional box also includes a shell assembly, a control board, a battery, a button and a charging interface; the shell assembly is a hollow cavity; the control board, the voice device and the battery are respectively fixedly arranged in the shell assembly; the battery supplies electric energy to the control board and the voice device; the button and the charging interface are respectively arranged on the control box and penetrate through the shell assembly; the functional box also includes a heart rate monitoring device; and the functional box further includes a camera.

An animal tracking system comprising a first LoRa receiver configured as a gateway to receive transmissions on a first set of channels or a second set of channels and forward said transmissions to a first remote server, and a transmitting tag configured to be affixed to an animal. The transmitting tag includes a memory configured to store digital information, a passive RFID receiver configured to detect a close proximity to an RFID transmitter and store detection of the close proximity in comprising in the memory, a processor configured to determine an alarm status according to a frequency of detection of the close proximity, an internal energy source, and a LoRa transmitter configured to transmit signals for a distance greater than 100 meters via energy from the internal energy source.

The present disclosure relates to an agricultural monitoring system and method for monitoring a nutrient flow within an agricultural site. The method comprises the steps of detecting a quantity related to a carried material of a known material type; determining a nutrient content of the captured material based on the detected quantity and based on at least one nutrient content parameter value associated with the carried material; obtaining information related to a source location and a target location for the carried material, and forming information related to the nutrient flow, said information comprising the source location, the target location, information related to the determined nutrient content of the carried material and preferably material type of the carried material.

Methods for enhancing embryonic and post-hatch growth and performance of poultry by administration of a probiotic composition, such as a composition containing a mixture of one or more bacterial cultures, to the surface of the shells of fertilized eggs prior to setting. Optionally, the method further includes administration of the same probiotic composition at the same concentration to chicks hatched from the eggs that had received the topical in ovo administration to the shell. The probiotic composition is administered to the chicks orally, such as in feed.

An animal information management system includes a storage and an information processor. The information processor causes an imaging device to perform tracking imaging of a pig, and accumulates still pictures including the pig in the storage, the still pictures being obtained during the tracking imaging. The information processor brings the imaging device into a zoom-in state having a zooming magnification higher than that during the tracking imaging when a predetermined requirement for the accumulated still pictures is satisfied, obtains the identification information of the pig by causing the imaging device in the zoom-in state to capture an image of the pig, and stores the identification information in the storage, in association with the accumulated still pictures.

The embodiments disclose a stress and strain gauge including at least one stress and strain sensor module configured to sense stresses and strains being applied by an animal biting a rope extending from a protective hand guard, a stress and strain gauge indicator coupled to the at least one stress and strain sensor configured for measuring the sensed stresses and strains as strain levels, a processor coupled to the stress and strain gauge indicator configured to dynamically analyze and compare the strain levels to predetermined threshold strain level measurements to determine a current animal play level that varies incrementally, and an alert module wirelessly coupled to the processor configured to notify a user of the protective hand guard in real-time of the current incremental animal play level.

A stand-alone chamber or multi-chamber inhalation system has at least two alternative vaporized test liquid supply systems for passive or self-administered delivery of vaporized test fluid and air to one or more test chambers, which can be passive or restraint chambers, based on operator selection of delivery on and off times in a passive mode or actuation of an actuator in the chamber by a test animal in a self-administered mode. In one case, a multiple inhalation chamber system has two or more separate test fluid delivery systems and provides options for selective passive uniform drug delivery to multiple chambers or selective delivery of two or more different drugs to different groups of chambers from different delivery systems so that two different drugs or different concentrations of delivered drugs can be tested simultaneously.

A system for training animals includes a hand-held device and a remote device, where the remote device applies a stimulus when a user presses a button or trigger on the hand-held device. The amount of pressure applied is measured by a pressure sensitive transducer and transformed into proportional transducer signals. These transducer signals are transmitted to the remote device, which then applies a stimulus to an animal being trained. The amplitude of the applied stimulus corresponds to the amplitude of the transducer signals; a trainer can thus precisely control the intensity of the stimulus by applying and relieving pressure on the button. The type of stimulus applied is controlled based on the position of a rotary switch on the hand-held device. Sensor data generated by specialized sensors in the remote device may be transmitted to the hand-held device to provide the user with sensory feedback.

A method for monitoring an animal with an autonomous monitoring device in close proximity to the animal, the monitoring device having a first sensor and a second sensor of higher electric power consumption. The method includes measuring a first parameter with the first sensor, the second sensor being deactivated. An estimated status of the animal is determined based on the first parameter. If the estimated status corresponds to a particular status, the second sensor is activated and measures a second parameter which is used to determine a specified estimated status of the animal.