Code
01CD01425
Duration
01 April 2025 → 31 January 2026
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Agricultural and food sciences
- Agricultural animal welfare
- Animal health engineering
Keywords
Implantable
Sensors
Broiler
Welfare
Wearable
Project description
Monitoring animal welfare is attracting increasing interest, both for ethical reasons and for improving productivity through the early detection of stress or diseases. Conventional monitoring methods are labor intensive and are less accurate. This study aims to monitor behavior, welfare and physiology of broiler chickens through wearable (ultrawide band and accelerometers) and implantable (Micro-HRT logger) sensors.