Year: 2025
Type: editorial
Abstract: The increasing global demand for animal-derived products, alongside concerns about sustainability and animal welfare, has accelerated the adoption of Precision Livestock Farming sensories. Among these, smart collars for dairy cows represent a key innovation, offering continuous, objective monitoring behaviour of animal . Despite their advantages, such as early disease detection and support for preventive management aligned with One Health principles, significant limitations persist. Current devices suffer from poor multisensory integration, limited interoperability, energy inefficiency, and high operational costs, especially for small to medium farms. This editorial critically examines the technological and functional gaps of existing solutions, advocating for a paradigm shift towards modular, interconnected, user-centered smart collars. Achieving this transformation requires a transdisciplinary effort to ensure that future wearable technologies fully meet the biological, operational, and ethical demands of modern dairy farming.
Source: The Open Agriculture Journal
Institutions: University of Bologna, University of Udine
Language: English
Topic: Smart Agriculture and AI
Subfield: Plant Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: European Commission
OpenAlex ID: W4414513542