Design of Standardized Breeding System for Rabbits Based on Internet of Things

There exist issues of fast environmental degradation, poor intelligence, and low management efficiency with the improvement of breeding rabbit scale. This paper presents the standardization breeding system of rabbit based on internet of things (IOT). This project realizes automatic precise feeding, growth environment monitoring and control, and integrated service management platform. This system can meet the needs of the rabbit growth environment, save resources and labor, reduce disease incidence, improve the quality of rabbit meat and fur, which has important guiding significance to large scale production of rabbit in the future. Introduction In recent years, the rabbit production has been paid widely attention throughout the world. Some international organizations and experts suggest developing rabbit production for many times, and making it one of the human animal protein sources [1]. The breeding industry has realized the full automation in many developed countries. Modern equipments are used into the rabbit breeding in France, and the motor drive the conveyor to distribute the rabbit food automatically [2]. In the hot regions of America appeared a new kind of ‘underground warren’, which was built underground, warm in winter and cool in summer [3]. And America's warrens are equipped with air conditionings. In Japan, expert system has been used in the rabbit breeding. This system can monitor and control the environment automatically, and diagnose the rabbit disease. Foreign modern rabbit breeding farmers adopt factory production mode [4]. The enclosed warren can control the environmental temperature and humidify automatically, and epidemic prevention measures are very modern. The system can calculate and distribute the ingredients, feed food and water, and clean up the feces by a computer [5]. In the good management mode, rabbit can grow and breed evenly in four seasons. Abroad in recent years, modern commodity warren appeared a new technology of ‘impending raising rabbit’. Rabbit cage is hanged on the ceiling bracket, and the height depends on convenient management operation [6]. This way has a good ventilated effect which is suitable for rabbit habit and has high technical content. There are many rabbit literatures in China, but the reports of related intelligent equipment and management system are rare. In 2010 Zhang Jiaquan in Jilin university wrote a paper about automatic feeding food and water, and lighting device in the warren, which is the early domestic literature on designing modern equipment [7]. In 2014 Wei Xuyang in Southwest university designed warren information management system [8]. In 2015 Ye Yun in South China Agricultural university designed large-scale production warren management system, which makes baby rabbit survival rate increased by 5.15%, and lower mortality [9]. At present, the domestic rabbit breeding develops toward large-scale and scientific breeding direction. Overall System Framework The overall system framework is shown in Fig .1, system nodes collect environmental parameters, including video information, and conveys them to the integrated service management platform (ISMP) 4th International Conference on Advanced Materials and Information Technology Processing (AMITP 2016) © 2016. The authors Published by Atlantis Press 64 via wireless sensor network, mobile network or internet. ISMP saves the environmental parameters and sends the data and information to the mobiles and computers of administrators. The administrator can give the corresponding commands to the control and feeding equipment. ISMP can control the related devices automatically under the absence of the administrator management. The system can be divided into three sections: automatic precise feeding, growth environmental monitoring and control, and integrated information service management platform. Fig. 1 The overall system framework Automatic Precise Feeding Automatic precise feeding includes quantitative food and regular watering. As shown in Fig .1, the valve can be opened to a gap depending on the intake food, and then the conveyor can be driven by a motor to distribute the rabbit food. When the conveyor stops, the slide is driven to some distance, and the gaps can appear. Every rabbit has a gap, which ensures the same dose. The whole process is carried out automatically. Fig .3 shows the real process of rabbit feeding. The left food can be weighed and the data can be send to ISMP and administrators, by which whether rabbits have diseases can be judged. Fig. 2 Automatic feeding-food device a) before feeding b) feeding c) after feeding Fig. 3 Pictures of rabbit feeding Regular watering may be realized by timers. The administrators can modify the rabbit watering time. The system controls a pump to inject water into the pipes at the regular time. Fig .4 shows the picture of rabbit regular watering. Quantitative food and regular watering ensure that the rabbits grow at the same speed, gastrointestinal disease incidence decreases sharply, survival rate increases to some extent, and quality of rabbit meat and fur get better.