CoopAEye: A low-cost artificial intelligence enabled camera system for complete commercial poultry house coverage

The CoopAEye project vision is development of a low-cost camera system which provides full commercial poultry house visual coverage with edge AI processing capabilities. The project vision is validated through a proof-of-concept which utilizes a representative hardware setup, real and synthesized data, and focuses on activity observations.The CoopAEye distinguishes itself from other systems by providing complete poultry house imaging and enabling detection/tracking of every bird. This is achieved through a distributed mesh of inexpensive camera/processor nodes which perform edge image processing and wireless synchronization/communication. During Phase I, IATech develops a Proof of Concept of the CoopAEye product, a low-cost camera system specifically for enabling complete coverage of commercial poultry houses. This provides growers with total poultry house imagery and frequent animal observations such as activity.Potential benefits of CoopAEye:Allows complete imaging of commercial poultry house livestockallows for animal observation and condition monitoring of poultry without having to enter the facility thereby reducing the risk of contamination to the flock or the farmerlife cycle data collection for production analysisproactive data driven managementenables subtle detection of changes to flock dynamics for early problem tracingcondensed animal analytics for archival compared to recorded live video.