Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems, apparatuses and methods for synchronous communication and control of LED lights and sensors in an LED light array containing two or more LED lights. Through the use of a master clock within a gateway and/or a master controller that is in communication with LED lights in an array that is in a facility, such as in a greenhouse, hot house, poultry egg production facility, a hospital, dairy production or other lighting facilities, the gateway and/or master controller is capable of synchronizing the emission of light or photons from an LED light array by generating a master signal that contains commands and time from a master clock within the signal that is transmitted to each of the LED lights within an array.

A system for the remote care of an item of vegetation used as a potential source of food for an animal, to include at least one of a proximity tag, RFID tag, transponder device, a predetermined machine-readable pattern, and geo-location device associated with the item of vegetation, and an aerial drone. The aerial drone includes a microprocessor, a sensor coupled to the microprocessor and configured to detect the at least one of the proximity tag, RFID tag, transponder device, predetermined machine-readable pattern, and the geo-location device, and a carrier configured to carry a substance comprising at least one of a solid, gas, and liquid. The aerial drone is configured to act in response to instructions issued by the microprocessor.

A method, system and computer programs for traceability of living specimens are provided. The method comprises executing a first process that performs video tracking of a plurality of living specimens and that determines tracking features thereof; determining a trajectory vector that includes a trajectory followed by each detected living specimen; executing a second process at a certain period of time that determines secondary features of one or more living specimens; matching tracking features of the trajectory vector with the secondary features, providing reference point of hyperfeatures; determining secondary features of the living specimens for other periods of time, providing other reference points of hyperfeatures; identifying when two reference points are contained within a same digital identifier, and as a result providing a potential trajectory segment; comparing physical characteristics of said potential trajectory segment and establish that the potential trajectory segment is valid/invalid depending if said comparison is inside/outside a given range.

An abnormality detecting system includes a first identification unit configured to identify a state of an animal that is a monitoring target in each time range, based on time-series data from a motion sensor placed on a predetermined portion of the animal that is a monitoring target; a first calculation unit configured to calculate a transition probability from the state at a predetermined timing of each time range identified by the first identification unit to a next state; and a determining unit configured to determine that an abnormality of the animal that is a monitoring target is detected when a score calculated based on the transition probability to the next state satisfies a predetermined condition.

A generating device of simulating a particulate environment for an experimental animal includes an experimental chamber. An ultrasonic atomization device is installed at the bottom adjacent to the center of the experimental chamber. The upper side of the ultrasonic atomization device is connected to a guide device for guiding particles. The guide device includes an air seal cover, and a micro fan is installed inside the air seal cover to drive the movement of particles generated in the ultrasonic atomization device. Air guide pipes are fixedly connected to a side wall of the air seal cover. The generating device has good sealing performance, and can generate a variety of particle simulation environments to accurately and effectively simulate the biological effect of particles in the animal body. The generating device can improve the particle simulation environment, reduce the deviation of experimental data, and ensure the accuracy of the overall experimental data.

A feeding system for feeding animals, in particular cows, at a feeding place feed from a feed supply including at least one autonomous feeding device having a container for accommodating a batch of feed from the feed supply. The autonomous feeding takes feed held in the container to the feeding place and dispenses it. The feeding system further includes a feed-quantity measuring device for repeatedly measuring a feed-quantity value for the quantity of feed for consumption by the animals at the feeding place, and a control system which receives feed-quantity values from the feed-quantity measuring device measured different measurement instants. The control system stores a plurality of the feed-quantity values in a memory. The control system calculates at least one value of a feed variable at at least one point in time after the last measurement instant, on the basis of the feed-quantity values stored in the memory.

Embodiments disclosed include systems, apparatus, and/or methods to receive a target health status of and/or quality of bioproduct produced by a managed livestock and indications of health status and quality of bioproduct. The systems, apparatus, and/or methods generate a set of input vectors based on the target health status or bioproduct quality, and the indications of bioproduct quality, and health status, and provide the set of input vectors to a machine learning model trained to generate an output indicating a feed selection. The feed selection can be included in a feed blend and administered to the managed livestock, such that, upon consumption, it increases a likelihood of collectively improving the health status of the managed livestock and the bioproduct quality of the managed livestock.

A horse covering using magnetic couplers is shown and described. The horse covering includes a blanket portion, having a front end, a rear end, and two sides. A first strap is secured to the rear end of the blanket portion. The first strap includes a first part of a magnetic coupler secured to the end of the first strap opposite the connection to the blanket portion. A second end of the magnetic coupler is secured to the blanket portion. A second strap secured to the front end of the blanket portion. The second strap has a first part of a magnetic coupler secured to the end of the second strap opposite the connection to the blanket portion. A second end of the magnetic coupler is secured to the blanket portion. The horse covering further includes two front leg straps one secured to each side of the blanket portion.

An apparatus includes a housing having an aperture extending through a wall of the housing, a carbon dioxide delivery device coupled to the housing through the aperture, a non-biological skin substitute substrate, and a heater coupled to the substrate.

An animal individual identification member includes a first base brought into contact with a body of an animal, a second base including an identification portion indicating identification information of the animal by a sequence of mutually different adjacent colors, and an adhesive layer which is located between the first base and the second base and bonds the first base and the second base. The first base, the second base, and the adhesive layer have identical resin skeletons.