🌾 Smart Cloud Platform for Livestock Farms 🐄

An integrated, full-stack smart farming solution designed to digitize livestock farm operations using computer vision, surveillance systems, animal tracking, real-time dashboards, and cloud-based automation. Developed as a Master's thesis project, this platform empowers farm managers to monitor livestock, manage operations, and enhance productivity with data-driven insights.

🧠 Overview

The Smart Cloud Platform for Livestock Farms provides an end-to-end intelligent monitoring system for modern farms. Through a combination of machine learning, Optical Character Recognition, camera surveillance, and real-time environmental monitoring, the system aims to automate livestock tracking, improve animal welfare management, and enhance decision-making at scale.

This platform includes:

• Computer vision using Machine learning models for livestock counting and detection
• Real-time camera feeds and smart surveillance.
• Animal tracking through virtual boundary detection.
• An AI-driven OCR system for identifying cow ear tags from videos.
• A cloud-ready React dashboard for real-time visualization.
• Surveillance integration to monitor livestock and detect anomalies.
• Modules for task scheduling, weather tracking, and livestock inventory.
• Backend APIs that serve as the middleware for ML inference and database operations.

Key Features

📹 Live Camera Surveillance

• View active camera feeds across paddocks.
• Planned: schedule recordings and alerts for movement detection.

🐄 Animal Movement Tracking (Cow Line-Crossing)

• Define virtual boundaries (lines/zones) within the farm.
• Detect when cows cross boundaries using video analysis.
• Log crossing events with timestamps and animal ID.
• Foundation for behavior tracking and geofencing alerts.

🔍 Livestock OCR Detection

• Upload or stream video to detect cow ear tags using OCR.
• Extract animal ID for records.

🐮 Livestock Inventory

• Manage livestock profiles including ID, breed, paddock location, and health status.
• Create, edit, and delete livestock data entries.

📍 Location & Paddock Management

• Assign animals to specific paddocks or zones.
• Track movement and paddock usage.

✅ Task Management

• Create and assign farm tasks (e.g., feeding, vaccination, cleaning).
• Mark task completion and track statuses.

🌦️ Weather Dashboard

• Display current weather metrics from an external API.
• Adapt farm schedules based on weather forecasts.

👤 User Profile & Access

• Profile management for farm operators.
• Planned: Role-based access control for task assignments.

🧰 Technology Stack

• Frontend React, SCSS, Light Bootstrap Dashboard Template
• Backend Flask, Python, Flask-Restful
• ML OpenCV, EasyOCR (Planned YOLOv8 for video tracking)
• Media MP4/PNG uploads, surveillance camera streams
• Deployment Docker, AWS

🔮 Future Enhancements

• 🧠 Integrate smarter models for cow detection & movement pattern prediction
• 📡 RTSP camera integration for live IP feeds
• 🧾 Add historical logs for tracking and analytics
• 🔔 Real-time alerts for restricted zone crossing
• 🔐 Role-based authentication (Admin, Farmhand, Vet)
• 📱 Mobile app version for remote monitoring
• ☁️ Cloud deployment with Firebase or AWS (media + DB)