Poultry
Smarter poultry health: detecting disease through the air as it happens.
Chickens can be affected by a variety of diseases, especially when they are housed in a closed environment. These can be treated with appropriate supplements or antibiotics to improve yields and quality, reduce waste and maintain the health and well-being of the birds.
Roboscientific's technology can detect a range of diseases including Campylobacter, Clostrideum perfringens, E-coli, Salmonella and Coccidiosis as soon as it starts to occur in the flock, enabling the farmer to provide the appropriate intervention in time to stop any deterioration in the condition of the flock.
Real Time Automatic Monitoring for Disease in Chicken Houses
About to be launched, the Chicken Barn Monitor is an installed device which automatically samples the air in a chicken house at regular intervals and then automatically analyses it to test for the presence of the designated diseases. Currently, Roboscientific's Sensor arrays have been developed to detect the presence of any or all of five diseases: Campylobacter, Coccidiosis, Clostrideum perfringens, Ecoli and Salmonella.
VOCs are chemicals produced naturally by all living organisms. They’re exactly the kinds of scents that dogs are so good at detecting.
We collect these VOCs from the air in the shed - air sampling needs to take place indoors because outdoors, the VOCs become too widely dispersed and too diluted, so they’re not concentrated enough for the sensors to detect reliably. Inside a shed, the air is contained, so the VOC signals remain strong enough for the system to work effectively.
Once collected, the system analyses the VOC patterns automatically and in real time. The workflow is straightforward: sampling, sensing, analysing, and delivering results.
For the farmer, the data is presented in a simple, interpreted form, to give clear information instantly. If no disease is present, the monitor will continue to check at regular intervals so that if a disease should occur, it can immediately notify the farmer, or his designated representatives via his preferred format - typically, email or text.