Using IoT to herd sheep and cattle, you can know their movements without going out

Abstract: A few lambs in the sheep pen of 161444b0e0d925 were a bit listless, "ding", the herder There was a cow on the pasture that didn't come back until dark. Lasso again used the mobile phone software to quickly locate the cow that was left alone...

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A few lambs in the sheepfold were a little listless, "ding", the herdsman pulled the phone away and learned of this for the first time. There was a cow on the pasture that didn't come back until dark. Lasso again used the mobile phone software to quickly locate the cow that was left alone...

When the animal husbandry industry began to digitize, and the technologies represented by the Internet of Things are changing traditional agriculture, Huawei cloud sharing expert Zhang Wei is one of the participants. He decided to use his favorite technology to promote the transformation and upgrading of this industry.

From Wubi to Internet of Things, I choose because of my passion

Zhang Wei said that he is a very lucky person because he has been engaged in the business he loves for so many years.

Computer is his major, as well as his interest and hobby. I still remember that the classmates around Zhang Wei only came into contact with computers when he was just in college. He has already learned Wubi typing. During that time, his happiest thing was to write code silently by himself when no one was disturbed in the middle of the night.

After graduation, Zhang Wei decisively devoted himself to software technology work. He once served as the technical development manager of a listed company, responsible for the management and development of bank projects, and then went to Sichuan Jixinghai Software Technology Company as the technical director. In more than ten years of work in the IT industry, Zhang Wei has nearly 10 authorized technology patents.

Therefore, Zhang Wei has always been very fortunate to have the opportunity to choose the job he loves and fight for it. "I always feel that when I find a position with strong interests, I can do a good job and a deep job with a good interest."

In 2017, Zhang Wei had a preliminary understanding of the Internet of Things. At that time, his company took on a Ningxia school bus monitoring system project. After doing some research, he quickly found fun in this Internet of Things project and firmly believed that It is one of the future technological trends and has a very bright development prospect. Since then, Zhang Wei has devoted himself to the research of the Internet of Things technology.

Work with HUAWEI CLOUD to promote the transformation and upgrading of the livestock industry

The animal husbandry industry is the scene that Zhang Wei has the most contact with, and it is also the scene that they are mainly facing in their current business.

From the perspective of macro trends, in recent years, with the improvement of residents' living standards, residents' demand for meat, eggs, and milk has shown an upward trend, which has promoted the continuous development and growth of animal husbandry. What can't match it is that the current animal husbandry breeding and management in our country is still relatively backward. In the relevant links of the animal husbandry industry, relatively primitive methods are still used for production and management.

Therefore, there are many pain points in the traditional animal husbandry industry that need to be resolved. For example, the government as a manager lacks efficient management, cannot guarantee food safety, and it is difficult to trace the responsible party. Financial institutions have weak supervision after insuring and lending to individual breeding individuals, unable to grasp the situation of livestock assets, and there are problems such as low efficiency of manual supervision, high costs, and inaccurate data. For another example, for breeding individuals, due to the primitive breeding methods of herders, there are problems such as stolen or lost livestock, inability to treat diseases in time, and inbreeding.

In order to solve the pain points of relevant institutions in the animal husbandry industry, promote the transformation and upgrading of the animal husbandry industry. Zhang Wei's company has been in the digital animal husbandry research and development since 2018, and then came into contact with Huawei Cloud IoT and conducted preliminary research. Zhang Wei said, "Huawei Cloud's IoT capabilities are exactly what we need, and it can help us solve the problem of platform and device docking."

Take Huawei Cloud Device Access Service IoTDA as an example. It provides access and management capabilities for a large number of devices, and can quickly build an IoT solution end-to-end in conjunction with other Huawei Cloud services.

In 2020, with the help of HUAWEI CLOUD, Zhang Wei's project has gradually matured. It also coincides with the fact that Huawei's developer competition is in full swing. They think this is a good platform and opportunity, so they joined the IoT track, and the final work was won. Won the third prize.

In the past two years, Zhang Wei and his team have teamed up with Huawei Cloud IoT to create a digital animal husbandry platform, which mainly includes the Internet of Things system, supervision system, production system, traceability system and circulation system.

Among them, the project that impressed him the most and the most in-depth cooperation between the two parties is the live asset supervision platform project, which is mainly aimed at financial institutions to implement post-lending supervision of biological living assets, improve post-lending risk control capabilities, and reduce post-lending risks . The results proved that this project was very successful, which also laid the foundation for their continued close cooperation with Huawei Cloud.

There is no way out of doubt, the joy of IoT development

On the other hand, Zhang Wei's research and development of the Internet of Things in the animal husbandry industry has not been smooth sailing.

Due to the particularity of the agriculture and animal husbandry industry, there are higher requirements for related equipment for collecting information, including cost, size, and weight must be strictly controlled. While ensuring continuous improvement of endurance and data collection accuracy, it can adapt to various harsh environments. . At present, Ji Xinghai, the company where Zhang Wei works, has adopted a self-developed smart ear tag. In addition to accurate temperature measurement, this product has two biggest highlights: First, it achieves ultra-long-distance transmission. 2000 meters, the second is to achieve a long battery life, the longest battery life at room temperature can reach 5 years.

In the entire digital farming and animal husbandry solution, Huawei Cloud IoT device access service helps Ji Xinghai solve the problem of data transmission of various devices to the cloud with low cost and high reliability, making the whole process digitized and visualized, and has very flexible data flow. Ability to easily transfer data to the back-end database for data analysis services.

But in the construction of the project, Zhang Wei also took some detours. According to him, at the beginning, after the team explored the ear tag data and reported it to the Huawei Cloud Device Access Platform (IoTDA) through the gateway, how should it be connected to their own system? The device managed by Huawei Cloud Device Access (IoTDA) is a gateway device. The data used in the actual scenario is the data of the ear tag node. The shadow data can be quickly obtained through the Huawei Cloud device access service, but how can we obtain all the history? What about the data?

Zhang Wei carefully studied the Huawei Cloud IoT platform and found that in addition to the device access services provided by the platform, it also provides IoT data analysis services. Although the device access services do not store historical data, they can use data analysis services (IoTA). Realize the warm and cold storage, data cleaning and analysis and processing of equipment data!

After in-depth understanding, Zhang Wei discovered that Huawei Cloud's data analysis service (IoTA) is specifically centered on the IoT asset model, and it can seamlessly connect with IoTDA. Different from general big data related products on the public cloud, Huawei Cloud Data Analysis (IoTA) is deeply integrated with asset models. In the definition of IoT data analysis operations, developers can easily reference IoT model data and greatly improve data Efficiency of analysis. This not only solves the problem of data storage and forwarding, but also integrates IoT data integration, cleaning, storage, analysis, visualization and other functions to help companies shorten the development cycle and quickly realize the value of IoT data.

According to Zhang Wei, their ear tag projects have been successfully implemented in Sichuan, Inner Mongolia, and Ningxia, and are now being promoted in Qinghai.

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Zhang Wei emphasized that in the Internet of Things industry, stability is the most important, followed by large and complete functions, so we must think more comprehensively in product design logic to ensure its robustness. "

After experiencing the development of the Internet of Things project again and again, Zhang Wei was also quite emotional, "It is really not easy to make a product. It needs to go deep in the industry, familiar with the market, and comprehensive knowledge and cognition in many fields. And technology The personnel must have certain technical capabilities as well as certain business capabilities."

At this stage, the biggest challenge for him is to upgrade the business as soon as possible, so that the company has more funds to survive, and continue to invest in research and development to enhance technological competitiveness.

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