LoRaWAN based Cattle Monitoring Smart System

The economy of developing country like India depends on livestock because it provides livelihood for majority people in the rural communal. Even though India has the world’s highest livestock, it is not utilized properly due to lack of appropriate monitoring. Usually cattle move around the wide spread farms and hence differentiating each cattle may be difficult due to their indistinguishable appearance. Identification of individual cattle is mandatory for various reasons like to manage breeding process, to monitor draining status, to restrict dispersion of ailments etc. Here in this paper, we propose a novel cattle Monitoring using LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network). LoRaWAN techniques assure wireless radio frequency with long range and low power wireless platform. Cattle monitoring is one of the major applications of LoRa device as it supports not only to identify the strayed animal, but also monitors animal’s vital condition. Initially LoRa based device is attached to the cattle’s collar and hence its acts as a node. The distinct nodes can transmit their location coordinates with the support of GPS(Global Positioning System). Temperature and humidity sensors are attached to the transmitter node to monitor the environmental condition of cattle and an alert message will be send to the concerned person if there is any deviation from expected readings. In the receiver side, the collected data will be shared to IoT dashboard using Raspberry Pi module. Hence the farm owner can monitor the cattle even from remote place. The prototype of proposed system is established and verified the real time performance as well.