Development of Non-Contact Real-Time Monitoring System for  Animal Body Temperature

Kuo-Hsiung Tseng; Meng-Yun Chung; Wei-Hong Jhou; Wei-Jer Chang; Chen-Han Xie

doi:10.46604/peti.2022.8870

Authors

Kuo-Hsiung Tseng Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Meng-Yun Chung Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Wei-Hong Jhou Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Wei-Jer Chang MOREPETS Company Limited by Shares, Taiwan
Chen-Han Xie MOREPETS Company Limited by Shares, Taiwan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46604/peti.2022.8870

Keywords:

animal body temperature sensing, Internet of things, image detection, infrared thermography

Abstract

Body temperature is an important indicator of health monitoring. However, since animals are covered with fur, it is difficult to obtain their accurate body temperature with the traditional infrared measurement technology. To deal with this problem, this research proposes a non-contact real-time monitoring system using an infrared method combined with object detection. The system is developed based on general infrared thermal imaging technology and an infrared thermal imaging module with an image tracking algorithm. YOLO is used to detect animals, and a thermal imaging camera is used to measure the body surface temperature of animals. The result shows that the proposed system can accurately measure the body temperature of animals without being influenced by animals’ fur. In the future, it can be applied to monitor the body temperature of sick animals in veterinary hospitals.

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