{"id":18029,"date":"2018-01-09T15:43:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T14:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18029"},"modified":"2018-01-09T15:43:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T14:43:42","slug":"animal-monitoring-system-uses-a-raspberry-pi-and-watson-iot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18029","title":{"rendered":"Animal monitoring system uses a Raspberry Pi and Watson IoT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/infrared.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18031\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/infrared.png?resize=560%2C422&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/infrared.png?w=1006&amp;ssl=1 1006w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/infrared.png?resize=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/infrared.png?resize=768%2C579&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/infrared.png?resize=560%2C422&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/infrared.png?resize=260%2C196&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/infrared.png?resize=160%2C121&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andysc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy Stanford-Clark<\/a>\u00a0from IBM has been helping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marwell.org.uk\/zoo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marwell Zoo<\/a>\u00a0in Hampshire to develop an Internet-of-Things monitoring and control device for animals. More specifically, he has been developing a system that monitors the sleeping area of certain animals in the Zoo and controls the heating based on infra-red photographs. Using a combination of a Raspberry Pi, a Pi camera, Andy has developed a system which uploads the photographs and sensor readings to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/internet-of-things\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watson IoT platform<\/a> which then would send a command to another system to control the heating. This is but the tip of the iceberg of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/blogs\/internet-of-things\/iot-how-to-build-a-better-zoo-bed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this project write-up which is covered in more detail by Karen Lewis over on the IBM blog<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a photo of Poppet, a Nyala, one of the animals being monitored, just because I love animals \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/nyala.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18030\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/nyala.jpg?resize=560%2C996&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/nyala.jpg?w=2988&amp;ssl=1 2988w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/nyala.jpg?resize=169%2C300&amp;ssl=1 169w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/nyala.jpg?resize=768%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/nyala.jpg?resize=576%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 576w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/nyala.jpg?resize=560%2C996&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/nyala.jpg?resize=260%2C462&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/nyala.jpg?resize=160%2C284&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/nyala.jpg?w=1120&amp;ssl=1 1120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/nyala.jpg?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Stanford-Clark\u00a0from IBM has been helping Marwell Zoo\u00a0in Hampshire to develop an Internet-of-Things monitoring and control device for animals. More specifically, he has been developing a system that monitors the sleeping area of certain animals in the Zoo and controls&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18029\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,69,26,36,43,68],"tags":[355,597],"class_list":["post-18029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camera-module","category-environment","category-internet-of-things","category-photography","category-research","category-science","tag-animals","tag-zoo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Animal monitoring system uses a Raspberry Pi and Watson IoT - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18029\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Animal monitoring system uses a Raspberry Pi and Watson IoT - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Andy Stanford-Clark\u00a0from IBM has been helping Marwell Zoo\u00a0in Hampshire to develop an Internet-of-Things monitoring and control device for animals. 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