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Animal Sensor Networks: Animal Welfare Under Arctic Conditions

Authors:
Mohamad Y. Mustafa
Inger Hansen
Svein Eilertsen

Keywords: Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN); Animal Sensor Networks (ASN); RFID; Wi-Fi Enabled RFID; ZigBee

Abstract:
Animal tracking, which can be efficiently performed using wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is an important tool that provides useful information about animals’ activities. It is also fundamental for environmental research. Under arctic conditions, WSNs face many challenges, such aslogistics costs, accessibility, danger of animals that might eat or destroy the equipment, effect of low temperatures on components, battery durability (which is drastically affected by low temperatures), effect of snow and ice on antennas and moving parts and continuous needs for calibration and adjustment due to extreme seasonal changes. However, they are a very good tool to overcome accessibility of semi-domestic animals under harsh weather conditions. One possible application of WSNs is the identification of ownership of newly born reindeer, which will be presented in this work as an example on arctic application.

Pages: 231 to 235

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: August 25, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4405

ISBN: 978-1-61208-296-7

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from August 25, 2013 to August 31, 2013