“…Measures the acceleration as a function of time, i.e. the movement Examples: feed intake, renuminaration, by attaching it in the collar [72], [70], [65], [66], [67], [57] Pedometer sensor Low cost device, usually attached to legs for activity monitoring, such as counting number of steps [72], [70], [65], [67] ECG, Pulsoxymetry Heart/respiratory rate monitoring [40], [41] Body temperature sensors Also surgically implantable (in pigs) used to detect fever and body temperatureduring oestrus period (cows) [40], [43], [52] Temperature and humidity sensors Ambient sensing of the farm houses (indoor), maintained to comfort the animals and also for better yield (milk, meat) [45], [55], [56], [47], [48], [49], [50], [58], [52] Camera health/behavior monitoring using image processing [48], [54], [44] ZigBee A wireless application and network layer protocol Low cost, low power and mesh networking [49], [53], [42] WSN and MANET Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) and Mobile Adhoc network (MANET) motes (including sensors) communicate wirelessly, data is usually processed at the server, and also partially at motes [72], [70], [63], [65], [67], [57], [69], [45], [56], [49], ...…”