Agriculture 4.0: improving animal welfare through artificial intelligence

Business Informatics researchers from the University of Hohenheim are merging this data into a digital platform as part of the project, Agriculture 4.0: Information System for Pig Farming - thus opening up the data to analysis and machine learning programmes. This will provide new insights into the efficiency of on-farm husbandry methods which will benefit swine welfare and allow advancements in sustainable pig farming. The Ministry of Rural Affairs and Consumer Protection (MLR) is supporting the project under the leadership of LSZ, awarding funding of almost 200,000 euros to the University of Hohenheim. The project could help to identify stress indicators and eliminate the causes of stress using video surveillance, data collection and machine learning. In addition, all operational standard data from the herd - including slaughter data, unit temperature, feed consumption - are incorporated into the digital platform.