Design and Implementation of Ubiquitous Pig Farm Management System Using iOS Based Smart Phone

Abstract

The interest in smart phone has been increasing in recent from the advancement of ubiquitous and mobile technology and smart phone is bringing forth significant changes in our lives by allowing us to obtain and share information anywhere, anytime by connecting to the Internet. The purpose of this paper is to propose a system for managing pig farm anywhere, anytime via smart phone to ultimately establish ubiquitous farming environment and improve livestock farms productivity. In this system, WSN environmental sensors and CCTVs are installed in pig farm that will collect data on livestock breeding environment such as illumination, humidity, temperature and gas to allow gathering and monitoring of pig farm environment. This system not only allows users to control and monitor pig farm facilities remotely via smart phone but also helps to create optimal breeding environment through the breeding environment data obtained over a long period of time. For the purpose of verifying this ubiquitous pig farm management system using smart phone, a pig farm model was developed and tested by applying the system.