Kāds bija risinājums/problēma?

The RumiWatch System (RWS), built in a cow halter, uses data gathered by a pressure sensor in combination with data collected by a triaxial accelerometer in order to detect different behavioral characteristics in dairy cows. Behavioral characteristics recorded by the RWS are bolus counts, chews per bolus, number of eating and mastication chews, prehension bites, number of rumination chews, and derived durations such as rumination time, prehension time, and eating time. Tāpēc, RWS is used extensively in experiments with barn-fed and grazing dairy cows. By aid of the RWS it is possible to estimate herbage dry matter intake of grazing dairy cows or to detect weak points in the feeding management.

Kādi ir veiksmes faktori problēmas risināšanā?

The acceptance by the participating farmers;

The functioning of the technical devices

What were the main challenges during the innovation process?

The technical know how;

The motivation of the consultans to participate in the project

Kāda loma ir konsultantam vai konsultatīvajam dienestam ar praktisko lietu?

Knowledge awareness and exchange, Capacity building, aimed at increasing innovation actors’ capacities in order to play their roles in the innovation process

For sharing experience of the practical case, lūdzu sazinieties

Markus Rombach, Dr.. AGRIDEA & Marc Boessinger, AGRIDEA

markus.rombach@agridea.ch; tālrunis +41 (0)52 354 97 52; marc.boessinger@agridea.ch