The storage telemetry system ETHOSYS can be applied to measure daily
patterns of activity and grazing in larger mammals over complete years.
The application of this system will be described and practically demonstrated.
Movements of a body or single extremities can be recorded by a the
three-dimensional acceleration measurement system WAS in humans and
animals. From the three dimensional accelerations, the resulting force
can be computed with a high temporal resolution. The possibilities of
the system will be demonstrated and compared to ETHOSYS.
From both systems, time series are produced. Like these time series
can be analysed by frequency analysis, will be demonstrated based on
the program TIME. The results of frequency analyses can be used to distinguish
normal and disturbed time patterns on a daily to hourly scale for behaviour
patterns as well as on a scale of milliseconds for movements. It will
be demonstrated, how welfare, different diseases, or stress can be detected
and distinguished. From the WAS data, a lameness detection procedure
will be demonstrated. The visitor will be trained in the application
of the measurement systems and the software for biorhythmic analysis.
Users will learn for which kind of behaviour analysis the two systems
can be applied.