Internet of animals: On-and off-body propagation analysis for energy efficient WBAN design for dairy cows

Abstract

Abstract-This paper presents propagation modelling of different on-body and off-body wireless communication scenarios for dairy cows in barns at 2.4 GHz. Based on the obtained propagation models, a WBAN that monitors multiple health parameters is designed for optimal performances in terms of energy efficiency and packet error rate.Index Terms-Dairy cow, on-and off-body path loss, cow phantom, temporal fading, wireless body area network (WBAN), energy efficieincy.