Pig Talk: Capturing data on climate, air quality and pig movements

Every year, the average size of pig farms grow all over the planet. At the same time, technology increasingly allows the monitoring of data in every detail. Combining the 2 creates vast opportunities to get to know in detail what is going on on pig farms.

How do animals behave when people are not there? How warm or cold is it in the farmhouses? And what can we tell about the air quality? It may sound like future technology, but it is very well possible to gather those data with just one device.

Vincent ter Beek, editor of Pig Progress, visits veterinarian and co-owner of Healthy Climate Solutions, Josine Gelauf. Together with Pim van Gennip, Gelauf created The Healthy Climate Monitor, a device that monitors what happens in the pig houses. Do you want to know more about this?