CN211741585U - Livestock positioner and positioning system - Google Patents
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The utility model discloses a livestock locator and positioning system, the locator includes: the microprocessor module is used for controlling the coordination work of other modules of the positioner, including the acquisition, processing, storage and transmission of data; the wireless communication module is in data connection with the external server and is used for communicating with the external server; the positioning module comprises a Beidou navigation unit and a GPS positioning unit and is used for acquiring longitude and latitude information of the livestock positioner; the livestock positioner is powered by the power module, the power module comprises a first circuit unit for supplying power to the microprocessor, a second circuit unit for supplying power to the positioning module and the wireless communication module, and a third circuit unit for supplying power to other modules of the livestock positioner, the first circuit unit is in a power supply state, and the second circuit unit and the third circuit unit can be switched to be in an on-off state under the control of the microprocessor module. The utility model discloses can realize keeping information acquisition and transmission reduce the consumption of livestock locator to guarantee long-time continuation of the journey.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to a wireless location technical field, in particular to livestock locator and positioning system.
Background
The world is changing day by day over time. Today, with the rapid development of technology, people have high demands on daily life, and especially higher demands are made on food safety, sources and quality. Consequently, livestock suppliers began to raise livestock in the field to improve the quality of livestock meat. However, the most important problem of livestock free-ranging is the management problem of livestock, especially in a relatively large free-ranging area, if a livestock is lost, the livestock cannot easily find the track. There is therefore a need to address such problems with existing technologies.
As a result of the market demand for animal husbandry, positioners for livestock have appeared on the market, which basically perform the positioning function, but the positioners on the market do not perform very well in terms of miniaturization and power consumption, and are also administratively deficient. Meanwhile, the method does not help the improvement of the meat quality of livestock. Furthermore, for the positioning of animals, a continuous and rapid positioning is not required, and sometimes the movement of the animal is very small at rest.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
An object of the utility model is to overcome prior art's shortcoming and not enough, provide a livestock locator and positioning system, this device and system can realize keeping the consumption that reduces the livestock locator when information acquisition and transmission to guarantee the long-time continuation of the journey of livestock locator.
The purpose of the utility model is realized through the following technical scheme: an animal locator comprising:
the microprocessor module is in data connection with other modules of the livestock positioner and is used for controlling the coordination work of the other modules of the positioner, including the acquisition, processing, storage and transmission of data;
the wireless communication module is in data connection with the external server and is used for communicating with the external server;
the positioning module comprises a Beidou navigation unit and a GPS positioning unit and is used for acquiring longitude and latitude information of the livestock positioner;
the livestock positioner is powered by the power module, the power module comprises a first circuit unit for supplying power to the microprocessor, a second circuit unit for supplying power to the positioning module and the wireless communication module, and a third circuit unit for supplying power to other modules of the livestock positioner, the first circuit unit is in a power supply state, and the second circuit unit and the third circuit unit can be switched to be in an on-off state under the control of the microprocessor module.
Preferably, the power module comprises a DC-DC voltage reduction circuit, an LDO chip and a rechargeable lithium battery which are sequentially arranged, and when power is supplied, the voltage released by the lithium battery is subjected to secondary voltage reduction through the DC-DC voltage reduction circuit and the LDO chip.
Preferably, the power supply module further comprises a power supply detection module for detecting the remaining power of the power supply module.
Preferably, the positioning module is a chip supporting Beidou/GPS dual positioning and is used for acquiring longitude and latitude information of the position where the positioning module is located.
Preferably, the wireless communication module is an NB-IOT module.
Preferably, the microprocessor module adopts an STM32L4xx series chip as a main control chip.
Preferably, the livestock locator also comprises a real-time clock module which is powered by the first circuit unit, is in data connection with the microprocessor module, and is used for working under the control of the microprocessor module and providing real-time for the livestock locator.
Further, the real-time clock module is a crystal vibration source of 32.768 khz.
Preferably, the system further comprises an attitude and step counting module which is a three-axis attitude sensor and senses X, Y, Z the acceleration of three axes.
Preferably, the temperature and humidity measuring device further comprises a temperature and humidity measuring module which is a temperature sensor and a humidity sensor.
Preferably, the livestock locator positioning system further comprises a memory module for acquiring and storing data of the livestock locator positioning process.
Preferably, the animal locator is a locator and animal fixture via a collar.
Furthermore, the necklace is a waterproof necklace made of nylon cloth, and the surface of the necklace is provided with a waterproof coating.
Further, the part of the collar which is in contact with the livestock is made of soft material.
Preferably, the power charging device further comprises a waterproof shell which is sealed except for a power charging port.
An animal positioning system based on any one of the animal positioners further comprises a positioning system APP and a cloud server, wherein the cloud server is communicated with the animal positioner through a wireless communication module; and the positioning system APP is in data connection with the cloud server and is used for providing real-time and displaying data of the positioning process of the livestock positioner.
Preferably, the livestock positioning system further comprises a cloud platform which is in data connection with the cloud server and used for displaying data of the livestock positioning process.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model, following advantage and beneficial effect have:
1. the utility model discloses can realize keeping information acquisition and transmission reduce the consumption of livestock locator to guarantee the long-time continuation of the journey of livestock locator.
3. The posture information provided by the posture and step counting module of the utility model can be used for researching the relation between livestock behaviors and postures, thereby providing convenience; the step counting function can record the daily exercise amount of the livestock and provide the animal owner with the exercise condition of the livestock so as to judge whether the meat quality of the livestock reaches the standard.
4. The utility model discloses temperature and humidity measurement module can provide the real-time body temperature of livestock for the herd, and the herd can judge whether the livestock is sick according to the real-time body temperature of livestock.
5. The utility model discloses can judge whether the locator probably seeps water to in time discover and handle by the herdsman, prevent to damage the locator.
6. The utility model discloses a livestock locator provides geographical position, attitude data, motion record, the fence information such as early warning of leaving a circle of livestock for cloud platform and positioning system APP, provides very clear data information for the managers.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a livestock locator module according to embodiment 1 of the present invention;
fig. 2 is a schematic view of the livestock positioning system according to embodiment 2 of the present invention;
fig. 3 is the working flow of the livestock positioner of embodiment 1 of the invention.
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For better understanding of the technical solutions of the present invention, the following embodiments of the present invention are described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the embodiments of the present invention are not limited thereto.
Example 1
As shown in fig. 1, an animal locator comprising:
the microprocessor module is in data connection with other modules of the livestock positioner and is used for controlling the coordination work of the other modules of the positioner, including the acquisition, processing, storage and transmission of data; the STM32L4xx series chip can be selected, has small volume and low power consumption, and is very suitable for occasions powered by batteries. Its from low-power consumption mode very energy-conserving, fine having satisfied the utility model discloses a low-power consumption demand.
The wireless communication module is an NB-IOT module, is in data connection with the external server and is used for communicating with the external server; the NB-IOT module is small, low power, self-contained with PSM (power saving mode), and inexpensive. The module is connected with the microprocessor module through a serial port.
The positioning module comprises a Beidou navigation unit and a GPS positioning unit and is used for acquiring longitude and latitude information of the livestock positioner; the positioning module can select a chip supporting Beidou/GPS double positioning, such as an L76C chip of a remote company, has small volume, low power consumption and low price, and is very suitable for being applied to the utility model; the Beidou/GPS unit adopts a built-in antenna with 1575MHz and 5.0DBI gain and 50ohm standard, and is connected with the microprocessor module through a serial port.
The livestock positioner is powered by the power module, the power module comprises a first circuit unit for supplying power to the microprocessor, a second circuit unit for supplying power to the positioning module and the wireless communication module, and a third circuit unit for supplying power to other modules of the livestock positioner, the first circuit unit is in a power supply state, and the second circuit unit and the third circuit unit can be switched to be in an on-off state under the control of the microprocessor module. The power module adopts two-stage voltage reduction, firstly utilizes a DC-DC circuit to reduce voltage, and then utilizes an LDO (low dropout regulator) chip to reduce voltage. The power supply is divided into three parts, a real-time clock module and a microprocessor module power supply circuit are used as a first part, the circuit of the part cannot be powered off to keep the content of the real-time clock, and the microprocessor adopts a low power consumption mode to save energy when not in work; the second part is a power supply circuit of the positioning module and the wireless communication module, the Beidou/GPS module and the wireless communication module are used when positioning and data uploading are needed, and for a herdsman, the real-time position of livestock is not needed to be acquired every moment, but the position data is acquired every other long time (for example, 5 minutes), so that the electric energy is saved by adopting a power supply cut-off mode in the time when the position is not needed to be acquired; the third part is a power supply circuit of other circuits, comprising a power supply detection module, a posture and step counting module, a temperature measurement module and a memory module, wherein the circuits need to be supplied with power when acquiring and processing data, and the time when the circuits need to be supplied with power is different from that of the second part, so that the circuits select to be supplied with power additionally, and the microprocessor turns on or off the part of the power supply according to the needs. The power module selects rechargeable lithium cell as the electric energy source, in order to alleviate the burden that the livestock carried the locator, the utility model discloses do not design solar charging panel. If too big, can increase the burden of livestock, if too little, again can't satisfy the demand of charging. Because the power supply of the battery is generally unstable, the voltage drop may be 1-2V when the battery is fully charged or nearly empty, and the power supply voltage of most modules needs to be stabilized at a certain voltage (e.g. 3.3V, 5.0V), the power supply voltage is unstable, and a voltage stabilizing chip needs to be adopted to step down the power supply voltage to the stable voltage required by the chip module (the output voltage of the chip is always stable). The power supply voltage generally needs to be higher than the voltage needed by the module by about 1.2V when the power supply is almost empty, the maximum required voltage of the module is 3.3V, and the voltage is reduced because the battery selects 7.2V, and the voltage is about 1.2V higher and is the minimum value.
The utility model discloses mainly reach the purpose of long-term continuation of the journey through mode energy-conservation such as module low-power consumption mode, module dormancy, module outage.
The livestock locator also comprises a power supply detection module for detecting the residual electric quantity of the power supply module, obtaining the residual electric quantity according to the discharge curve of the selected lithium battery and transmitting data to the server through the wireless communication module. In the embodiment, the power detection module adopts an IC chip LM358D of TI company to match with a peripheral circuit to reduce and filter the power voltage, and the output low voltage is connected to the ADC peripheral of the microcontroller to perform analog-to-digital conversion, so as to obtain the digital value of the analog voltage.
The livestock positioner also comprises a real-time clock module, a 32.768khz crystal vibration source, the first circuit unit supplies power, the real-time clock module is in data connection with the microprocessor module and is used for working under the control of the microprocessor module and providing real-time for the livestock positioner.
The livestock positioner also comprises a posture and step counting module which is a three-axis posture sensor and senses X, Y, Z three-axis acceleration. Because the locator is fixed in the neck department of livestock with certain mode, and the acceleration information of different gesture and three axle has certain relevance, we can obtain what kind of gesture the livestock is in through certain intelligent algorithm according to triaxial acceleration sensor's real-time data, for example according to mean value filtering algorithm (or Kalman filtering algorithm) messenger triaxial acceleration's dynamic curve is more level and smooth, recycles the neural network algorithm (or expert's algorithm) of degree of depth study, can reachs the gesture of livestock at a moment, the utility model discloses an innovation point is not in the improvement of algorithm so no longer repeated description. Meanwhile, when the livestock moves, the step number of the livestock can be calculated according to the coherent data of the three-axis acceleration, so that the manager can obtain the movement amount of the livestock.
The livestock positioner also comprises a temperature and humidity measuring module which is a temperature sensor and a humidity sensor and is used for measuring real-time questions of livestock and judging whether the positioner seeps water.
The livestock positioner also comprises a memory module for acquiring and storing the data of the positioning process of the livestock positioner.
The livestock positioner is used as a fixing device of the positioner and the livestock through a collar so as to reduce the interference of the whole positioner; the necklace is a waterproof necklace made of nylon cloth, and the surface of the necklace is provided with a waterproof coating for preventing water and dust; the part of the collar, which is contacted with the livestock, is made of soft materials (such as silica gel), so that the livestock is protected from being scratched when the collar generates friction.
The livestock locator still includes waterproof housing, and this waterproof housing is except keeping the power and charging the mouth and all sealing.
The work flow of the livestock positioner is described as follows by a specific example:
the locator work flow is as shown in fig. 3, when starting, the locator starts to initialize parameters, starts to search for satellites, then starts the wireless communication module and initializes the parameters of the wireless communication module, and then establishes a network access link. If the network link is established in failure, the wireless communication module needs to be reset to be re-linked; if the search is successful, the waiting network access is judged to be successful, if the search is not successful, the search is continued, if the search is overtime, the low-power-consumption sleep mode is entered for a period of time, and after the search is awakened, the Beidou/GPS module is reset to continue searching for the Beidou/GPS signals. And when the link is successful and the satellite is searched, synchronizing a local real-time clock, acquiring position information and time information according to a set time interval, and acquiring temperature information, triaxial acceleration information and power supply electric quantity information according to a set frequency. Uploading various types of collected information to a cloud server, if the information fails, retransmitting the information, if the information fails for multiple times, detecting the state of the network, if the network is not connected, detecting whether the signal is weak, if the information cannot be uploaded successfully, judging that the information enters a weak signal area, and if the information cannot be transmitted and received, storing the data to a memory according to time information. And detecting whether the network is recovered to be normal or not at regular time, and if so, retransmitting the data stored in the memory to the cloud server. When data is uploaded, the wireless communication module monitors whether a control command is sent by an upper layer or not, if the control command is received, the command is analyzed, a corresponding command is executed, and an execution result is returned; if the control instruction is not received within ten seconds, the module needing to be dormant enters the dormancy state, and the module needing to be powered off enters the power-off state. If the mobile terminal enters the power-off state, the mobile terminal needs to search for the satellite again and reestablish the network link when the mobile terminal is started again.
Example 2
As shown in fig. 2, an animal positioning system based on the animal positioner of embodiment 1, besides the animal positioner, the system further comprises a positioning system APP, a cloud server and a cloud platform, wherein the cloud server communicates with the animal positioner through a wireless communication module; the positioning system APP is in data connection with the cloud server and is used for providing real-time and displaying data of a positioning process of the livestock positioner;
the cloud platform is in data connection with the cloud server and used for displaying data of the livestock positioning process.
The livestock locator provides information such as the geographical position, attitude data, the motion record, the early warning of fence out of a circle of livestock for cloud platform and positioning system APP, still provides navigation and control command simultaneously, and navigation has made things convenient for the herdsman to track and has looked for the lost livestock, and control command can let the simple setting of carrying out the parameter to the livestock locator of herdsman.
The above embodiments are preferred embodiments of the present invention, but the embodiments of the present invention are not limited to the above embodiments, and any other changes, modifications, substitutions, combinations, and simplifications which do not depart from the spirit and principle of the present invention should be equivalent replacement modes, and all are included in the scope of the present invention.
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1. A livestock positioner is provided with a microprocessor module and is used for controlling the coordination work of other modules of the positioner, including the acquisition, processing, storage and transmission of data;
the livestock locator is characterized in that the microprocessor module is in data connection with other modules of the livestock locator;
further comprising:
the wireless communication module is in data connection with the external server and is used for communicating with the external server;
the positioning module comprises a Beidou navigation unit and a GPS positioning unit and is used for acquiring longitude and latitude information of the livestock positioner;
the livestock positioner is powered by the power module, the power module comprises a first circuit unit for supplying power to the microprocessor, a second circuit unit for supplying power to the positioning module and the wireless communication module, and a third circuit unit for supplying power to other modules of the livestock positioner, the first circuit unit is in a power supply state, and the second circuit unit and the third circuit unit can be switched to be in an on-off state under the control of the microprocessor module.
2. The livestock locator of claim 1, wherein said power module comprises a DC-DC voltage reduction circuit, an LDO chip, and a rechargeable lithium battery in sequence, and when power is supplied, the voltage released by the lithium battery is subjected to secondary voltage reduction via the DC-DC voltage reduction circuit and the LDO chip.
3. The livestock locator of claim 1, further comprising a power detection module for detecting an amount of power remaining at the power module.
4. The livestock locator of claim 1, wherein said positioning module is a chip supporting Beidou/GPS dual positioning for obtaining latitude and longitude information of a location.
5. The livestock locator of claim 1, wherein said wireless communication module is an NB-IOT module.
6. The livestock locator of claim 1 further comprising a real time clock module powered by said first circuit unit and in data communication with said microprocessor module for operating under control of said microprocessor module to provide real time to said livestock locator.
7. The animal positioner of claim 1, further comprising an attitude and pedometer module, being a three axis attitude sensor, sensing X, Y, Z three axis accelerations.
8. The animal locator of claim 1 further comprising a memory module to acquire and store data of the animal locator locating procedure.
9. The animal locator of claim 1 wherein the animal locator serves as a fixture for the locator and the animal by means of a collar.
10. An animal positioning system based on the animal positioner of any one of claims 1-9, further comprising a positioning system APP communicating with said animal positioner via a wireless communication module for providing real time, data showing the animal positioner positioning process.
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