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In 1999, Taiwan¡'s Council of Agriculture assigned a project to prevent and control any incoming diseases; we accepted this assignment and started to investigate and collect animal farm positional data, creating a GIS farm database. We established a monitoring system that can efficiently monitor and track all the diseased animal collection vehicles (DACVs) from the farms to the crematoriums. We created a set of modules for each DACV that consisted of a declaration interface, a GSM module, a GPS module, loading sensors and a micro controller module. The micro controller module received and integrated the real-time positions, quantity, weight, size and the type of the diseased animals during the daily operating period for each DACV and transmitted this data via the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS). We also established a supervising vehicle system that can retrieve and monitor information from the FARMNET database server by wireless GPRS/3G communication media, enabling the monitoring of possible improper usage by the DACVs' drivers. An onboard tracking tablet PC was installed in the supervising vehicle to calculate the shortest path to any DACV acting in a suspicious manner. Consequently, FARMNET allows the control center, the supervising officers, central and local government to share all the DACVs' information.

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08-0715

English

12p

2008

Transportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting

DVD

Figures (11) ; References (5)

Animals; Databases; Diseases and medical conditions; Farms; Food chain; Global Positioning System; Information management; Law enforcement; Meat; Public health; Uncertainty

Taiwan

Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Environment; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I10: Economics and Administration

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2008 Paper #08-0715

BTRIS, TRB

Jan 29 2008 3:03PM