Animal welfare

Abstract Smart farming platforms (SFP’s) for pig livestock farming are of increasingly relevance to increase sustainable decision making and  enhancement of animal welfare. SFPs involve the whole supply chain and  integrate various types of data measured, thus enable data-driven solutions  using artificial intelligence. While there exists research about SFPs, issues  concerning data governance of SFPs are still lacking. Against this backdrop, we  develop a SFP for sustainable decision making with respect to data privacy and  data security. Our SFP integrates 4 sensor data sources (e.g., temperature  control system, and feeding stations), considers farmer characteristics (e.g.,  projects with pigs), and provides data-driven solutions (e.g., prediction of  animal welfare indicators). We report on the current process situation in pig livestock farming as well as on our concept of SFPs for sustainable decision  making. We also report on the evaluation of our SFP by ...