The uses of thermal imaging cameras just keep growing.
By taking the technology developed by FLIR in their thermal cameras, a Swedish firm has managed to adapt the thermal technology and use it to detect disease in cows inside a dairy farm.
Agricam has been hard at work developing the Cattle Disease Diagnostics (or CaDDi for short) for a while now. The system uses two FLIR A310 thermal cameras to take a picture of cow’s udders, allowing the user to determine whether the cow has a disease known as mastitis.
Mastitis refers to the inflammation of breast tissue, and can affect the udders of cows.
The system works by taking a picture of each side of a cow’s udder, storing it in databases and then the CaDDi software determined whether the thermal patterns are normal or whether something is amiss with the reading taken.
The technology could be further developed in the future to prevent and locate other diseases in animals as well.
