The next-generation mobile communication standard "5G" is set to start commercial services in the United States and South Korea from this month, and in Japan by 2020, but in rural areas of the United Kingdom, cows are already benefiting from 5G.
At a farm in Shepton Mallet, a town in southwestern England, cows with automatic milking systems and health monitoring tags around their necks and ears are monitored in real time by 5G-connected sensors. Cisco Systems, the world's largest computer network equipment developer, is testing the potential of 5G in agriculture.
The cows approach the milking robot themselves when their boobs are stretched. Then, the nipples are washed, a vacuum cup is attached, milking is performed, and the process of analyzing the milking text is performed fully automatically. These processes themselves are not new, but the strength of 5G mobile connections is that they can exchange large amounts of data at high speeds without going through low-speed broadband connections in the countryside. It is suitable for transmitting information from remote sensors and drones, and is useful for automating agricultural processes.
Cows can move around freely in the barn, which is equipped with a milking robot, a feeder that distributes compound feed, and a brush that rubs the body. All cow behavior is controlled by tags and 5G sensors, so dairy farmers can keep track of their condition even when they are not in the barn. However, even though it has been considerably labor-saving, it seems that it still takes manpower to change the beds of the cows.
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