Integrating innovative TECHnologies along the value Chain to improve small ruminant welfARE management

Projektinformationen

TechCare

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 862050

DOI

10.3030/862050

Projekt abgeschlossen

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 18 Juni 2020

Startdatum 1 September 2020

Enddatum 31 August 2025

Finanziert unter

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy

Gesamtkosten

€ 5 999 895,00

EU-Beitrag

€ 5 703 693,01

Koordiniert durch

SRUC
United Kingdom

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Leistungen

Documents, reports (31)

Prioritised list of the main welfare issues affecting sheep and goats of the greatest concern to European stakeholders

Prioritised list of the main welfare issues affecting sheep and goats of the greatest concern to European stakeholders (producers to consumer).

1st update of Data Management Plan

1st update of DMP

Reports on Stakeholders engagement events
Report on existing and relevant business models
List of opportunities revealed by key stakeholders, for developing novel PLF tools.
Report on the European production systems in use for sheep and goats, and the associated welfare issues with each stage of the cycle
Presentation and report of the unique business model developed for TechCare
Initial Dissemination, Communication & Exploitation Plan

Initial Dissemination, Communication & Exploitation Plan established

Report on validated PLF tools that can be used for welfare management of sheep and goats
Reports on national workshops
Stakeholders' Behavioural Dynamics : Report

Report on the Stakeholders’ Behavioural Dynamics

2nd update of Data Management Plan

2nd update of DMP

List of gaps concerning further efforts required for innovative PLF tools addressing prioritised welfare issues

List of gaps concerning further efforts required for innovative PLF tools addressing prioritised welfare issues (i.e. determined in collaboration with WP1 and WP2).

2nd update of Dissemination, Communication and Exploitation Plan done

2nd update of Dissemination, Communication and Exploitation Plan done

KOM minutes

Minutes of the KOM distributed

Communication package created

A communication package will be created and circulated amongst all partners. It will be a practical guide for the partners on how to use the potential various communication/dissemination tools identified.

Risk assessment

Update of the risks identified for the project, associated to avoidance and mitigation plan for these risks and contingency plan if they occur. This risk assessment will be updated regularly (at M6 & M18)

Synthesis of all large-scale studies

Each large-scale study will be synthesised in a document following a common template for all case studies. The report will evaluate all practical issues related to i) the real use of the technologies and indicators all stages along the supply chain, ii) the consequences in term of workload and work organisation, iii) data flow, management and access by all actors, and iv) link between animal welfare with other production parameters. All these should determine the technical and economic viability of the innovative technologies tested.

1st update of Dissemination, Communication and Exploitation Plan done

A 1st update of Dissemination, Communication and Exploitation Plan will be done. It will be based on the initial information gathered for D7.3, but additional details and information will be added. This plan will be the guide for all actions, measuring achievements (expected achievements are included in section 2.2). It will also guide the communication.

List of organisations and advisory board representatives
List on the PLF tools and technologies currently in use for ruminant farming systems, their associated main production parameters and addressed animal welfare issues.
Report of market analysis

Report of market analysis from visits

List of demonstrations of validated intervention mechanisms that had an effect on efficient and impactful animal welfare management.
List of potential PLF ‘tools' matched the prioritised welfare measures determined in D2.3

List of potential PLF ‘tools’ matched the prioritised welfare measures determined in D2.3

Ethical assessment/framework for PLF technology implementation
Technology guidelines

Technology guidelines: guidelines on how to use the technologies base on the experiences of the use case studies

Report on business models development activities

Report on business models development activities (including future ones and incubator seminar). This report will be a blueprint and guide for all the potential technologies (from WP3 and WP5) to be able to achieve market potential.

Synthesis of all pilot trials

A synthesis of all pilot trials results will be gathered in a report, to validate promising innovating technologies and indicators under new operational environmental situations as well as to fine-tune the application of the technologies to be used as an early warning system, if required, before large-scale study.

Report on suitable welfare assessment methods for the priority welfare issues for European sheep and goat production
Steering Committee minutes

Steering Committee minutes distributed at M7, M15, M20, M28, M45, M51

Tool kit established and distributed to all partners

"Tool kit established and distributed to all partners. It will include 1) a description of ""good practices"" of resource management, to be presented in the administrative and financial implementation manual, emphasising the duties of each partner and setting out the project management procedures; 2) a tool (e.g. excel) to monitor expenses (e.g. financial monitoring); 3) common reference documents such as deliverables and milestones list; 4) a common platform that will be set up to facilitate exchanges of documents and storage of projects’ outputs."

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Initial Data Management Plan established

Initial plan explaining how data will be handled during and after the project. Regular updates at M24 and M36

Other (3)

Prioritised list of data sources
Practice Abstracts (batch 1)

"Batch 1 of 40 practice abstracts (20 practice abstracts out of the 40 planned)The resulting innovative knowledge and easy accessible end-user material from this project will feed into the EIP-AGRI (The agricultural European Innovation Partnership) website for broad dissemination. The end-user material to be produced contains a substantial number of summaries for practitioners in the EIP common format (""practice abstracts""), including the characteristics of the project (e.g. contact details of partners, etc). A full package of practice abstracts will be produced by the project, containing all the outcomes/recommendations which are ready for practice."

Practice abstracts (batch 2)

"Batch # 2 of 40 practice abstracts (remaining 20 practice abstracts).The full package of practice abstracts (40) will be produced by the project, containing all the outcomes/recommendations which are ready for practice, into the EIP-AGRI (The agricultural European Innovation Partnership) website for broad dissemination."

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Website created online

Veröffentlichungen

Thesis and dissertations (2)

Investigation of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) as a precision livestock farming tool in grazing sheep systems

Autoren: Walker, Aimee M
Veröffentlicht in: 2025
Herausgeber: University of Glasgow
DOI: 10.5525/gla.thesis.85318

Development and validation of animal-based welfare indicators for a Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) approach to small ruminant welfare management

Autoren: Reeves, Michelle
Veröffentlicht in: 2024
Herausgeber: University of Edinburgh
DOI: 10.7488/era/5040

Peer reviewed articles (13)

Validating kfino algorithm (Kalman filter with impulse noised outliers) to filter liveweight outliers produced by the walk-over-weighing (WoW) platform in a large spectrum of farming systems

Autoren: E. González-García, I. Sanchez, I. Llach, M. Decandia, V. Giovanetti, B. Cloez
Veröffentlicht in: Smart Agricultural Technology, Ausgabe 12, 2025, Seite(n) 101374, ISSN 2772-3755
Herausgeber: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.atech.2025.101374

Developing a new digital vision for rangeland grazing systems

Autoren: Claire Morgan-Davies, Nicola Lambe, John P Holland, Ann McLaren, Davy McCracken
Veröffentlicht in: Animal Frontiers, 2026, ISSN 2160-6056
Herausgeber: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/af/vfag009

Small Ruminant Parturition Detection Based on Inertial Sensors—A Review

Autoren: Pedro Gonçalves, Maria R. Marques, Shelemia Nyamuryekung’e, Grete H. M. Jorgensen
Veröffentlicht in: Animals, Ausgabe 14, 2025, Seite(n) 2885, ISSN 2076-2615
Herausgeber: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/ani14192885

Virtual fencing systems: balancing production and welfare outcomes

Autoren: Waterhouse T.
Veröffentlicht in: UK-VET Livestock, 2023, ISSN 2053-0870
Herausgeber: MAG Online Library
DOI: 10.12968/live.2023.28.5.227

Development of a novel Bluetooth Low Energy device for proximity and location monitoring in grazing sheep

Autoren: A.M. Walker, N.N. Jonsson, A. Waterhouse, H. McDougall, F. Kenyon, A. McLaren, C. Morgan-Davies
Veröffentlicht in: animal, Ausgabe 18, 2024, Seite(n) 101276, ISSN 1751-7311
Herausgeber: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2024.101276

The impact of gastrointestinal parasitism on the behaviour and welfare of weaned housed lambs

Autoren: Michelle C. Reeves, Naomi Booth, Naomi J. Fox, Jo Donbavand, Mhairi Jack, Fiona Kenyon, Jessica E. Martin, Emma M. Baxter, Cathy M. Dwyer
Veröffentlicht in: Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Ausgabe 276, 2024, Seite(n) 106323, ISSN 0168-1591
Herausgeber: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106323

Norwegian sheep farmers’ perception of the advantages and disadvantages of Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) technologies

Autoren: Michelle C. Reeves, Lise Grøva, Lesley Jessiman, Cathy M. Dwyer
Veröffentlicht in: Journal of Rural Studies, Ausgabe 117, 2025, Seite(n) 103684, ISSN 0743-0167
Herausgeber: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103684

Evaluating a Walk-over-Weighing system for the automatic monitoring of growth in postweaned Mérinos d’Arlesewe lambs under Mediterranean grazing conditions

Autoren: Leroux, I. Llach, G. Besche, J.-D. Guyonneau, D. Montier, P.-M. Bouquet, I. Sanchez, E. González-García
Veröffentlicht in: Animal - Open Space, Ausgabe 2, 2023, Seite(n) 100032, ISSN 0000-0000
Herausgeber: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.anopes.2022.100032

How do we measure welfare on farm? Indicators, proxies and gold standards

Autoren: C.M. Dwyer, G.H.M. Jørgensen, J.-M. Gautier
Veröffentlicht in: animal, 2026, Seite(n) 101790, ISSN 1751-7311
Herausgeber: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2026.101790

Localisation of sheep using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) proximity

Autoren: A.M. Walker, N. Jonsson, A. Waterhouse, H. McDougall, F. Kenyon, A. McLaren, C. Morgan-Davies
Veröffentlicht in: Animal - science proceedings, Ausgabe 14, 2025, Seite(n) 371, ISSN 2772-283X
Herausgeber: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.anscip.2023.01.493

Kalman filter with impulse noised outliers: a robust sequential algorithm to filter data with a large number of outliers

Autoren: Bertrand Cloez, Bénédicte Fontez, Eliel González-García, Isabelle Sanchez
Veröffentlicht in: The International Journal of Biostatistics, Ausgabe 20, 2025, Seite(n) 641-660, ISSN 1557-4679
Herausgeber: Berkeley Electronic Press
DOI: 10.1515/ijb-2023-0065

The effect of age on young sheep biometric identification;

Autoren: A. Hitelman, Y. Edan, A. Godo, R. Berenstein, J. Lepar, I. Halachmi
Veröffentlicht in: Animal, Ausgabe 16 (2), 2022, Seite(n) 100452, ISSN 1751-7311
Herausgeber: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2021.100452

Review: Exploring the use of precision livestock farming for small ruminant welfare management

Autoren: C. Morgan-Davies, G. Tesnière, J.M. Gautier, G.H.M. Jørgensen, E. González-García, S.I. Patsios, E.N. Sossidou, T.W.J. Keady, B. McClearn, F. Kenyon, G. Caja, L. Grøva, M. Decandia, L. Cziszter, I. Halachmi, C.M. Dwyer
Veröffentlicht in: animal, Ausgabe 18, 2024, Seite(n) 101233, ISSN 1751-7311
Herausgeber: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2024.101233

Non-peer reviewed articles (2)

Growth and behaviour of post-weaned Mérinos d’Arlesewe lambs, as measured by a Walk-over-Weighing system under Mediterranean grazing conditions

Autoren: Leroux, I. Llach, G. Besche, J.-D. Guyonneau, D. Montier, P.-M. Bouquet, E. González-García
Veröffentlicht in: agriRxiv, Ausgabe Dec8(2021), 2021, Seite(n) 20210504875, ISSN 0000-0000
Herausgeber: Preprint
DOI: 10.31220/agrirxiv.2021.00109

Kalman filter with impulse noised outliers: A robust sequential algorithm to filter data with a large number of outliers

Autoren: Cloez, B. Fontez, E. González-García, I. Sanchez
Veröffentlicht in: Arxiv, Ausgabe Jul29(2022), 2022, Seite(n) 2208.00961, ISSN 0000-0000
Herausgeber: Arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2208.00961