Sažetak
Modern milk industry has the tendency of automating all its segments, the highest requirements being those in the area of the feeding quality control, which are impossible to be met with the conventional methods of supplying the food. This paper deals with the system of an automated feeding of milk-cows, the feeding with refreshing fodder in medium-sized farms. The advantages of the system over the conventional ways of supplying the food are a better food usability, an increased milk production due to the fact that each head gets an optimal quantity of food, control over the quantity of food eaten and the possibility of controlling the feeding of each head for health reasons, with no need for heads to be physically separated from others. The system is controlled by a PC and a microcontroller system, and heads are identified by using the RFID technology.
Ključne riječi
feeding system ; RFID ; milk ; milk-cows ; microcontroller