A Development Architecture for the Intelligent Animal Care and Management System Based on the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence

The zoo is a local facility where some wild or exotic animals are placed in a fence. The main significance of the zoo is to provide educational and animal conservation functions, and secondly to provide public viewing and entertainment. Animal care and management in the zoo is almost open all year round. Its basic tasks include accommodation, breeding, health care, and medical care etc. Because there are nearly hundreds, thousands, or even ten thousands animals with different body shape and characteristics in the zoo that need to be cared for and managed, animal administrators must be skilled in various tools and real time control the condition of all animals, resulting in the heavy workload of the animal administrators and the huge operating expenses of the zoo. Therefore, it is necessary to find ways to reduce the workload of the animal administrators, but also to immediately control the current state of the animals, while saving animal care and management expenses. This study proposes a development architecture for the intelligent animal management system based on the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI). Its main purpose is to automate some tedious procedures for caring animals through the IoT and AI to help animal administrators to take care of them and manage them more systematically.