"Cloud" pasture, "cow networking"! This company in Ningxia is on the "cloud"!
In the past few days, the most important task for Yinchuan Auto Information Technology Co., Ltd. after the orderly resumption of work and production is to send the necessary products for platform construction to Belarusian smart animal husbandry operators and provide timely maintenance services.
This is the 23rd foreign user of Auto.
MRS dairy cow production cloud system, TMR feeding monitoring cloud system, environmental monitoring cloud system, cow weighing and hoof disease detection cloud system...... This smart animal husbandry "cloud" from Yinchuan iBi Breeding Center is floating to the world.
"We hope that all cows all over the world will become ‘digital cows’ and use our smart monitoring ‘bull phones’." The company’s chairman Chen Hua made a vivid metaphor.
Yinchuan Auto Information Technology Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise based on intelligent recognition and perception technology, Internet of Things technology, and big data technology research and development. It cooperates with Huawei and China Telecom to jointly develop the "Little Shepherd Boy Cow Estrus Monitoring System". The Internet of Things products based on NB-IoT communication technology have effectively improved the reproductive efficiency and health of dairy cows.
"Cloud" from Yinchuan
In the 1990s, Chen Hua began to come into contact with the dairy farming field, and found that the dairy farms had many problems in dairy cows' estrus monitoring, health monitoring, nutrition and environmental management.
"Extensive breeding methods have severely restricted the development of dairy cattle breeding." From the professional perspective of computers and communications, Chen Hua wanted to provide a precise scientific breeding method for cattle farms.
So, he started the research on this subject.
"With the deepening of the research, I found that the knowledge of this subject is very deep." Chen Hua has carried out very in-depth and systematic research from genetics, environment, nutrition to eugenics, and has developed a software system to carry out all-round cattle breeding. The idea of escorting.
In 2009, Chen Hua co-founded Yinchuan Auto Software Co., Ltd., the predecessor of Auto, mainly engaged in the research and development of intelligent animal husbandry IoT products and software development.
In 2010, a smart animal husbandry software came out, which was the predecessor of the later popular "Little Shepherd Boy Cow Heat Monitoring System". After testing, it was successfully launched and put into use.
The hardware of the system wears a sensor on each cow’s neck, and transmits the collected cow’s activity, rumination, movement trajectory and other information to the cloud platform. The cloud platform uses big data to analyze the cow’s estrus or illness, and then calculate the results. It is sent to ranch managers and breeders through mobile APP, WEB page, etc., on the one hand, to ensure the safety of dairy cows, on the other hand, it can detect the estrus period of dairy cows in time and remind them to breed in time to achieve efficient management.
"After the system was launched, the accuracy rate of exposing mother steak eggs was getting higher and higher, and it was able to accurately signal the "heart pulse"." Chen Hua said.
In 2011, this smart animal husbandry software was officially launched on the market and was included in the Ministry of Agriculture's extension plan in 2013.
Statistics show that compared with the average milk production per cow in developed countries, the average annual yield per cow in Israel can reach 11.8 tons, while the average yield per cow in my country is only 7.4 tons. The low detection rate of estrus is an important reason.
"Cloud" floating world
In 2017, China Telecom Group recruited partners for the "Ubiquitous Cattle Sensing System" project from around the world, and Auto's "Dairy Cow Estrus Monitoring System" came to the fore and successfully won the bid.
The two parties jointly optimized and upgraded the "cow estrus monitoring system" system. An eye-catching name-"little shepherd boy" came into being. Through solution and business model innovation, the communication method in the smart collar was replaced by ZigBee with NB- With IoT technology, collar data can be directly transmitted to the China Telecom Internet of Things open platform through the NB-IoT network, and then enter the dairy cow information management platform on Tianyi Cloud. The dairy farm management, breeders, veterinarians, etc. can use the web or mobile client. Get real-time information on dairy cows' physical signs.
In September of that year, animal husbandry companies in 5 provinces including Inner Mongolia, Shandong, Shaanxi, Liaoning, Ningxia signed 1.26 million sets of "Little Shepherd Boys". "Little Shepherd Boy" became one of the only two Best Innovative Practice Awards of Tianyi IoT Industry Alliance in 2017.
In the same year, Huawei and Auto Co., Ltd. started to promote the "Little Shepherd Boy" project overseas.
The two strong cooperation masters the core technology of their respective fields, Auto Stock has become more powerful with Huawei's 5G technology platform.
"With Huawei's 5G technology, we no longer have to worry about signal problems." Chen Hua said, "For example, a ranch with tens of thousands of cows a thousand miles away, no matter which cow has a sensor problem, the backstage The system will automatically diagnose and solve it remotely, and the health monitoring of the cattle is accurate to the individual."
So far, Yinchuan Auto Information Technology Co., Ltd. has joined hands with Huawei to jointly develop the international market, and has established cooperative relations with major operators in many countries in Asia, Africa and Europe.
"For example, when we went to LG Group in South Korea to promote business, we have put forward good solutions to all the technical demands raised by the other party." Chen Hua said that Auto shares fully digested and integrated Huawei's 5G technical standards and applied them to the company's business. The "double swords" of competitive products has laid a solid foundation for the "Little Shepherd Boy" to go global.
Building a good pasture on the "cloud" side
In the past two years, Aote Stock has continued to optimize and upgrade the "little shepherd boy". It is no longer just a "estrus monitoring system", but a smart pasture Internet of Things based on 5G technology, which can improve the nutrition, health, environment, and automation of cattle. A comprehensive monitoring system for feeding and pasture management.
MRS Cow Cloud Production Measurement System, by measuring and recording the milk production, milk temperature and conductivity of each cow, realizes the control of the milking process.
The environmental monitoring cloud system uses high-quality high-precision sensors to automatically control the operation of the fans, sprinkler systems, rolling doors, water pumps and other equipment in the cowshed through data analysis.
TMR monitoring cloud system, an intelligent monitoring system that guides and records the complete feeding process of dairy cows TMR mixer truck ingredients and feeding in real time, guides and supervises the feeding process of dairy cows, and realizes feeding precision...
A number of "clouds" burst out, making this intelligent animal husbandry cloud system more and more favored by customers, and each "cloud" pasture is branded with the mark of "cow networking".
In 2018, during the pilot test of the "Little Shepherd Boy" in modern animal husbandry, the product data integrity rate reached 100%, the estrus disclosure rate reached 100%, and the estrus disclosure accuracy rate reached more than 96%, effectively improving the breeding success rate and milk production. The development and application of "Little Shepherd Boy" not only solves the pain points of traditional industries, and effectively improves the economic benefits of the animal husbandry industry, but also provides a benchmark for the establishment of modern production and operation and the promotion of modern animal husbandry to informatization and intelligent development.
Some insiders believe that from the perspective of data value, the future food data collection brought by the "Little Shepherd Boy" cow estrus monitoring cloud system will have important reference value for food traceability and cold chain fresh food.
"Through the'Little Shepherd Boy' system, more healthy and happy cows will provide us with a glass of high-quality milk." said Chen Hua, chairman of Yinchuan Auto Information Technology Co., Ltd.
