An automated system for monitoring horses vital signs using heart beat sensors

Abstract

A dire need of an affordable and accessible technology in order to maintain horses' health can be seen in the animals' care sector. Technology integration at this level will not only enable users to have access to a reliable tool to measure the heartbeat of the horses but also helps to eliminate the need of costly sensors that are expensive and seldom portable. The main objective of the proposed solution is to monitor vital signs of the horses in the form of maintaining their health by an effective instrument that would help any kind of user with a little knowledge of technology to be able to take care of their horses. The sensors of the proposed system allow transmitting horses' heartbeat to a Mobile App through Bluetooth. Then, the Mobile App generates instantly statistics and required information about the horse's heartbeat rate. In addition, the Mobile App sends the horse's heartbeat to the client's servers for more analysis to give the owner of the horses a genuine competitive advantage. The results show that any kind of training program that needs to be conducted for the horse can be customized according to the horse's heart beat and the vital signs that the heartbeat of the horse denotes.