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KINLI: Time Series Forecasting for Monitoring Poultry Health in Complex Pen Environments

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: We analyze how to perform accurate time series forecasting for monitoring poultry health in a complex pen environment. To this end, we make use of a novel dataset consisting of a collection of real-world sensor data in the housing of turkeys. The dataset comprises features such as food intake, water intake, and various environmental values, which come with high variance, sensor defects, and unreliable timestamps. In this paper, we investigate different state-of-the-art forecasting algorithms to predict different features, as well as a variety of deep learning models such as different transformer models and time series foundational models. We evaluate both their forecasting accuracy as well as the efforts required to run the models in the first place. Our findings show that some of these aforementioned algorithms are able to produce satisfactory forecasting results on this highly challenging dataset while still remaining easy to use, which is key in a tech-distant industry such as poultry farming.

Source: Animals

DOI: 10.3390/ani15213180

Authors: Christopher Ingo Pack, Tim Zeiser, Christian Beecks, Theo Lutz

Institutions: Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, FernUniversität in Hagen

Language: English

Topic: Smart Agriculture and AI

Subfield: Plant Science

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Zero hunger

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,896