IoT sensors for smart livestock management

Abstract It is expected that IoT technology can make a breakthrough in livestock management by connecting biological information of livestock and environmental information obtained by IoT sensors to farmers who are in remote location from the farm via cloud. It will help to improve efficiency of livestock production and reduce physical labor and labor cost. There are some requirements for IoT sensors for smart livestock monitoring, which is a little different from the case of IoT sensors for humans. In this chapter, we explain these requirements. In addition, representative IoT sensors for livestock monitoring including commercialized sensors and prototypes in research stage are introduced and their advantages and disadvantages are discussed.