Matsubara Tatsuya, Fukatsu Ryota, Yamamoto Makoto, Moriya Minami, Hano Kazuki, Nakamura Kotono, Ohba Yasunori, Takasu Masaki
Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Applied Biological Sciences, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan.
Japan Animal Referral Medical Center, Kanagawa, Japan.
J Equine Sci. 2024 Dec;35(4):47-55. doi: 10.1294/jes.35.47. Epub 2024 Dec 12.
Including Internet of Things (IoT) technology in horse-rearing management can potentially mitigate problems such as human resource shortages and time limitations in performing daily behavior monitoring. In this study, a small and inexpensive activity meter used to monitor dogs and cats (PLUS CYCLE, JARMeC, Kanagawa, Japan) was used to monitor the daily behavior of horses. A study was performed to examine the suitability of the PLUS CYCLE device for monitoring horses and to determine whether it could estimate horse behavior. The device was equipped with an accelerometer and was used to monitor Kiso horses in horse stalls and pastures after installing the devices at specific locations on headcollars and girths. The amount of activity from the accelerometer showed differences among the horses' behavioral types (lying, standing, walking, and feeding) in the stall, suggesting that it functions in horses. In the pasture, the amount of activity was correlated with GPS movement speed. Then, we tried to establish restricted cubic spline regression models to predict the locomotion speed in the pasture based on the amount of activity, but the prediction accuracy was low. This study showed that PLUS CYCLE can be used to monitor horse activity amount during the daily management of individual horses. However, to achieve higher precision in monitoring detailed behaviors, additional investigation and data pertaining to the amount of activity for each horse during rearing in different environments are needed.
将物联网（IoT）技术纳入马匹饲养管理中，有可能缓解诸如人力资源短缺以及日常行为监测中的时间限制等问题。在本研究中，一种用于监测犬猫的小型且价格低廉的活动监测仪（PLUS CYCLE，日本神奈川县JARMeC公司）被用于监测马匹的日常行为。开展了一项研究，以检验PLUS CYCLE设备用于监测马匹的适用性，并确定其是否能够估计马匹行为。该设备配备有加速度计，在将其安装在马的头套和肚带的特定位置后，用于监测厩舍和牧场中的木曾马。加速度计的活动量在厩舍中马匹的不同行为类型（躺卧、站立、行走和进食）之间显示出差异，这表明该设备在马匹中能发挥作用。在牧场中，活动量与全球定位系统（GPS）移动速度相关。然后，我们尝试建立受限立方样条回归模型，以便根据活动量预测牧场中的运动速度，但预测准确性较低。本研究表明，PLUS CYCLE可用于在个体马匹的日常管理中监测马匹的活动量。然而，为了在监测详细行为方面实现更高的精度，需要针对不同环境下饲养的每匹马的活动量进行额外的调查和获取相关数据。
