The developed infrared thermal image monitoring system is integrated infrared thermal image sensor with environmental sensors for achieving practically use in commercial breeding poultry houses. This monitoring system bases on the embedded system (Raspberry Pi) and integrates with infrared image sensor, visible light camera and environmental sensors, etc. for achieving the remote monitoring requirement. At present, this system was setup in Hsinchu White Meat Chicken poultry house and Changhua Native Chicken poultry house for the stability test. The information such like ambient temperature and humidity, wind speed, carbon dioxide concentration, ammonia concentration and poultry body temperature can be collected in the poultry house and transmitted to the cloud server. Besides, the activity of the poultry can be further evaluated by the collected information. The collected information can be used as a reference for the poultry house environment control and the poultry health monitoring and management. In the future, the developed system can effectively save the labor costs, improve the animal welfare and achieve the smart poultry houses.

Infrared thermal image, Environmental sensors, Poultry house, Smart agriculture