"In the recent years, the use of antibiotics related to the intensive animal farming have had a dramatic direct and indirect impact on human health and environment. The direct effects like meat contamination by toxins are less visible than the indirect pollution caused by frequent mis- and over-use of antibiotics which develops the antibiotic microbial resistance (AMR). Aware of the antibiotic resistance issue, the EEC has decided to ban the routine use of preventive antibiotics since 2022.
In many cases farmers are using antibiotics to protect the herds and to improve the efficiency of breeding. For bigger animals like cattle there are many IoT solutions which help to monitor the well-being of a single animal and then in case of illness to treat it individually. The earrings or smart belts/holders based solution are quite expensive but since the cost of animal is high it is efficient to use them. The pig farming and breeding is different. The cost of single pig is more than 5-10 times lower than a single cow and is around 150 euro. Direct transfer of technology used in cattle has no economic justification because the earring based solution cost around 100 euro per piece. As a Smart Soft Solutions we are developing a ""smart breeding"" system for small and medium animals like pigs which will be able to monitor the well-being status of single hog or sow.
There are over 760 million pigs in the world, and the production efficiency is affected by various diseases, such as African Swine Fever (ASF), which reduce it. On the other hand, the amount of antibiotics used in pigs breeding is very high, and some of the manure goes almost directly or directly to the environment, and is responsible for the AMR effect. Introducing Smart Breeding for pig production is a key problem we address. Thanks to our ThermoEye system solution, we can monitor the temperature of a single animal, compare it with other measurements and models developed by breeders and veterinarians, and at the end immediately inform pig farmers about stress accidents and illnesses. Data is collected for further processing, which will help farmers to improve the production cycle, reduce animal stress and, finally, alleviate animal's hard breeding life. In addition, the ThermoEye system solves the problem of missing employees, which are difficult to attract to the pig industry.
The reduction of AMR problem and the provision of healthy pork meat with the unchanged price are the most important problems we are solving for general society. Moreover we support automation in pig farming and we increase the well-being of animals. We are willing to provide fresh mass food at the same quality as it used to be in the pre-antibiotic era.
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