Smart pig farming helps bring home the bacon

After eight years of research, a team led by Cang Yan, Chen Chunyu and Qiao Yulong from the college of information and communication engineering at Harbin Engineering University in Heilongjiang province has successfully developed a series of intelligent pig farming robots.

The robots can monitor the growth status of pigs in real time through a mobile app, providing scientific guidance for breeding and raising the animals.

Their scientific and technological achievements have been applied in four smart farming-related listed companies, as well as five centrally-administered State-owned enterprises and small and medium-sized firms, with an expected economic benefit of over 100 million yuan ($13.78 million).