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Abstract

Horses played a key role in the history of mankind, having been instrumental in the rise and fall of great empires. In modern days, they are still very important assets, from economical, operational or even sentimental points of view. Their importance is, thus, the main motivation for developing the iHorse equine monitoring system presented in this paper. iHorse is a deployed, fully-operational, commercially-available, wireless-sensor-network-based system and application, developed and tested over a three-year period. The aim of this paper is to provide information on the main features of the system, including its architecture, implementation details and performance data. The paper also discusses the lessons learnt throughout the system development and deployment phases.

Keywords

#horses #wireless sensor networks #animal health monitoring #system architecture #commercial deployment #PERFORMANCE EVALUATION #Lessons learned #Software deployment #Key (lock) #Wireless sensor network #Computer science #Architecture