The Big Data and Business Analytics are fore frontier of technologies that are generating huge competitive advantage to the companies. Big Data Analytics are playing an important role in developing new innovative products that are enabling companies to engage their customers in a new and disruptive manner.
According to McKinsey Global Institute Report "Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity" - Big Data Capturing its value: $300 billion potential annual value to US health care and $600 billion potential annual consumer surplus from using personal location data globally.We specialize in developing Big Data Business Analytics products. Our first Big Data Product, Murai Data Analytics helped save healthcare device makers IT deployment costs in the range of 25% to 40% annually. Next, we applied Big Data technologies to Connected Dairy. Connected Dairy Analytics applies the Big Data technologies, Internet of Things, and Smart Dairy to help improve Dairy operational efficiencies and improve profitability. Connected Dairy, importantly, helps the Dairy operations in proactively identifying Heat Stress and Bovine Respiratory Disease.
Connected Dairy Analytics will harvest huge operational efficiencies, cost savings, and actionable insights to address dairy cattle related critical issues. Connected dairy, importantly, is a data enabled insightful tool that facilitates better management of Dairy activities.
Rumination is a window to cow health.Rumination is impacted by external factors as well as internal rumen functioning. Rumination is the regurgitation of fibrous matter from the rumen to the mouth, and the return back to the rumen. This biological process is impacted by the forage’s nutritional and fiber content. Dietary fiber form and digestibility do play a role. Increasing feeding time and dry matter intake has a positive effect on rumination. Yet on any given diet, a cow will control rumination in response to external stressors.Rumination is not only a requirement for healthy cows; it can be a very early indicator of stress or illness. By monitoring decreases in rumination times, management changes can be made to alleviate stressful situations, or to begin treating a sick cow. Stress can be assessed via rumination decreases up to 48 hours prior to any other indicators being evident.
Deviations from the herd’s or the individual cow’s baseline rumination time is an early sign of some stressor. But rumination time is not measured by the percentage of cows lying down, Grant cautioned. While dividing the number of cows ruminating by the number of cows in the stall will give you an idea of cow comfort, it does not predict resting time and rumination, or assess changes in time spent ruminating from the baseline.
Our Sensors enable farmers to specify & capture rumination threshold counts: |
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Our Sensors identify healthy-vs.-sick cattle:
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Analytics platform consists of two core engines:
Machine Learning and Recommendation Engine
We apply both content and collaborative (Dairy Farms with similar cattle groups) recommendation systems. The main idea of collaborative recommendation approaches is to exploit information about the past behavior an existing Dairies data for predicting which medication to milk output, medication to disease analysis, and location to social presence analytics.
Smary Notifications: Another important feature of our recommendation system is to prioritize notifications that Dairy management and operation personnel receive and present the notifications such a way that it reduce alert fatigue. We have seen several Dairies small and large where systems (milk production, weather, temperature, health, and other location)generate several notifications per day and if not handled properly can cause work interruption to dairy operations and thus reduce overall productivity.
Social presence Analytics: Our recommendation system applies location based social presence analytics to provide most relevant information to Dairy management. We have seen by applying Social presence analytics not only drastically improves cattle disease management but also enable dairies actively collaborate to the local community.