Ontology-based Data Integration Framework for Smart Pig Farms
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Semantic web technology is known to enhance data for the connection of information using a network that can be easily read by machines. This work applies an ontology to integrate data involved in swine farm management towards the development of smart farm for swine. To realize environmental data, IoT devices including sensors, camera, and RFID readers were deployed in a pig farm. Despite differences in data format from different sources, an ontology was crafted to provide semantic annotations that could unify the data and enhance them with tangible relationships based on the domain knowledge. The core concepts of this ontology were sensing data with temporal information and identifiable data to represent relationship between real-time environmental features and the pigs within the pen to improve pig management. The semantically enhanced data can thus be applied with semantic-based queries and inference reasoner. Smart services including monitoring, decision support, alerting, and automatic executing based on the deployed IoT devices are thus enabled to support farm managements towards smart farm for swine. From the results, we found that the integrated sensing information from sensors and knowledge given in the developed ontology with inference rules assists the task of interpretation of monitored information and decision-making to improve swine farm management. The data gathered could be extended by combining two or more factors such as temperature and humidity into heat index using knowledge inference to precisely understand environmental information and activate the relevant machine automatically.
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