SmartCount™
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Integrating Vision Technology for high capacity counting, vaccination and the analysis of day old chicks

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Demand drives automation Growing demand for high quality day old chicks is driving expansion for hatcheries around the world. To deliver increased numbers, reduced ‘throughput time’, improved traceability and animal welfare requires innovation in hatchery automation. Market demand for modular, single stage incubation has increased substantially in recent years, with growing recognition in the poultry industry that a short hatch window and uniform, robust chicks are critical to obtaining the best performance. The impact of effective single stage incubation strategies, expressed in terms of...

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At the core of these transitions in the poultry industry, lies a duty of care from the retailer and ultimately to the consumer, to deliver the highest standards of animal welfare and offer complete traceability, from egg production and hatchery all the way down the chain. Together, these factors create increasing demand for innovation, to support and improve standards of animal welfare - and to increase the availability of information from source. In response, Pas Reform Academy has looked for more intelligent, innovative ways to handle valuable day old chicks, with minimum impact on their...

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Accurately ‘sees’, counts and vaccinates day old chicks. Combine with SmartCenter™ - and the hatchery produces the most detailed data analysis, for complete traceability and performance reporting. SmartCount™ applies Vision Technology, a complex pairing of digital imaging and pre-defined algorithms, to count and analyse groups of day old chicks. Image sequences are interpreted using these criteria, pre-set by Pas Reform Academy, to process the chicks in stress-free conditions. With an accuracy of two chicks per thousand, SmartCount™’s nett system capacity is 60,000 chicks p

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The same level of intelligence and accuracy defines a range of key parameters, including smart pattern recognition for even, gentle distribution in the right numbers into the chick boxes at the end of the conveyor, and precise, optimised spray vaccination. SmartCount™’s chick analysis system incorporates calculations for uniformity scoring – and by integrating SmartCount™ statistics with SmartCenter™ hatchery information system data, the hatchery is equipped with the most detailed level of data analysis and batch reporting available to

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Counting and dosing Stress-free conditions for the accurate counting and precise, gentle dosing of day old chicks into chick boxes. Accurate counting and stress-free chicks Unlike conventional chick counters, SmartCount™ does not require unnatural acceleration to separate the chicks. The system analyses sequential images of multiple birds. Low transport speed allows the chicks to remain upright, in control and free of stress at all times on the conveyor. As an adaptive technology, SmartCount™’s Vision system is optimised to perform accurate counts at all times, and to recognise chicks from...

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Precise dosing into chick boxes SmartCount™ uses Vision not only to count individual chicks, but also for pattern recognition, to deliver precise dosing of the day old chicks into chick boxes. The system’s intelligent software adjusts conveyor speed based on numbers of chicks, to maintain accurate dosing in any conditions. SmartCount™’s Vision Technology locates the day old chicks passing the Vision camera, to control the number allowed to glide into a predetermined chick box. At the same time, the system’s vision assisted software configures a ‘dosing curtain’, by drawing ‘lines’ between...

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Batch scoring and vaccination Vision Technology assisted batch uniformity scoring and fully optimised, uninterrupted spray vaccination. Uniformity scoring for batches of chicks SmartCount™ analyses individual chick weight and derives a uniformity score using the coefficient of variance (cv), to collect data for evaluating the hatchability, average day old chick weight and uniformity scoring of different flocks. The system calculates the average weight of a batch of chicks, using day old chick volume as a key index. This complex calculation cannot be interpreted reliably from just one image....

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Integrated, accurate spray vaccination Pas Reform Academy has worked with leading vaccine manufacturers, to develop a fully optimised spray system that delivers the correct droplet size for accurate vaccination. Double auto-changeover vaccine containers include a small reservoir, weighed while vaccination is in progress, and a larger reservoir that can be refilled while vaccination continues. Too small a droplet can intensify the dose, provoking a serious reaction in the day old chicks, while too large a droplet size may provide inadequate protection. A transparent drift guard ensures an...

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Data analysis and reporting SmartCount™ and SmartCenter™: a powerful combination of Vision Technology, batch information and track & trace data, to produce the most detailed batch reporting for uniformity and quality of management in the hatchery. By integrating the data and statistics generated by SmartCount™ with SmartCenter™ hatchery information system, the hatchery manager can produce detailed data analysis and batch reports. SmartCount™’s user-friendly data entry module makes a simple task of entering batch related information into the system. In conjunction with SmartCenter™’s track &...

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A summary – Animal Friendly: unnatural acceleration of the chicks is no longer necessary. The sequence analysis of images of multiple birds avoids the stressful separation of day old chicks. – Sequences of images are interpreted using pre-defined criteria set by Pas Reform Academy, to ensure accurate counting, dosing and chick analysis. – Smart pattern recognition registers the number of chicks per box and produces precise dosing per box, also allowing for four-compartment filling. – Integrated chick analysis system incorporates batch uniformity scoring. – Self-adapting software:...

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