Cough monitoring alerts vets two weeks earlier
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Recent trials have made it very clear what computer monitoring can achieve. An early warning system consisting of a microphone and algorithms can detect respiratory issues several days earlier than a producer or vet can. Trials all over Europe can confirm this.
Is it possible to figure out which respiratory issues are present in a pig herd only by listening to pig coughs? Impossible, some might say. Doable, others might retort. Some of these others, as early as 2012, embarked on a project to mak
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