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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2015
Applicant:
Lely Patent N.v., Maassluis, NL;
Inventor:
Patrick Philip Jacob Van Der Tol, Amersfoort, NL;
Assignee:
LELY PATENT N.V., Maassluis, NL;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01J 5/007 (2006.01); A01K 29/00 (2006.01); A01J 5/013 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01K 29/005 (2013.01); A01J 5/007 (2013.01); A01J 5/013 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and device are provided for generating an attention indication for a dairy animal that is kept in an environment with a freely accessible robotic milking system, including measuring a plurality of visit intervals, milking intervals, respectively of said dairy animal, determining a value of a statistical parameter regarding the measured plurality of intervals from the measured intervals, generating the attention indication, in particular a mastitis alarm signal, if the value exceeds a predetermined threshold value. Valuable information can be derived from the spread of, or change in, the values.