Recording of dairy cow behaviour with wireless accelerometers

Precision Livestock Farming 2009 - Papers Presented at the 4th European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 349-356

  De Mol, R M ^a   Bleumer, E J B ^a   Hogewerf, P H ^a   Ipema, A H ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Lying; Standing; Tilt sensor

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION MEASUREMENTS; DAIRY COW; LYING; MEASURING FREQUENCY; STANDING; TILT SENSOR; WIRELESS ACCELEROMETERS; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

SENSOR NODES; SENSORS;

ACCELEROMETERS;

EID: 84875486468     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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