Digital Twin Application: Making a Virtual Pig House Toward Digital Livestock Farming
Digital twins, an emerging technology, are widely used in various industries. It builds a virtual space by mirroring a physical space and performs different simulations to solve problems that are complicated or impossible to solve in the physical space. Livestock farming in agriculture is evolving r...
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| author | Deuk-Young Jeong Seng-Kyoun Jo In-Bok Lee Hakjong Shin Jun-Gyu Kim |
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| description | Digital twins, an emerging technology, are widely used in various industries. It builds a virtual space by mirroring a physical space and performs different simulations to solve problems that are complicated or impossible to solve in the physical space. Livestock farming in agriculture is evolving rapidly with the introduction of various information and communication technologies for digital farming. However, only few studies have examined the digital twin in terms of HVAC systems directly related to productivity in livestock farming. Here, we propose a novel digital twin framework for livestock farming focusing on pig houses. Livestock farming is one of perspective areas where digital twins can provide benefits for the growth of livestock and their operation in an efficient manner. To validate effect of the proposed digital twin framework for a pig house, we perform various simulations using a real-world dataset of a pig house. As a result of analyzing the energy demands for heating in pigsty based on the digital twin framework, the fan-coil unit was found to be the most energy efficient. In addition, when the optimal control of the HVAC system was applied, it was found to be more energy efficient than the conventional control method. The results obtained in this study show that our approach is superior to existing operational conventions, particularly in terms of energy efficiency. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f01c3385e68041ca89581918381661132023-11-07T00:01:15ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362023-01-011112159212160210.1109/ACCESS.2023.331361810246265Digital Twin Application: Making a Virtual Pig House Toward Digital Livestock FarmingDeuk-Young Jeong0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8466-3391Seng-Kyoun Jo1In-Bok Lee2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0401-7657Hakjong Shin3Jun-Gyu Kim4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9429-2141Department of Rural Systems Engineering, Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South KoreaAnimal and Aquaculture Intelligence Research Center, Electronic and Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI), Daejeon, Agriculture, South KoreaDepartment of Rural Systems Engineering, Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, Global Smart Farm Convergence Major, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South KoreaDepartment of Architectural Engineering, University of Seoul, Seoul, South KoreaAnimal and Aquaculture Intelligence Research Center, Electronic and Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI), Daejeon, Agriculture, South KoreaDigital twins, an emerging technology, are widely used in various industries. It builds a virtual space by mirroring a physical space and performs different simulations to solve problems that are complicated or impossible to solve in the physical space. Livestock farming in agriculture is evolving rapidly with the introduction of various information and communication technologies for digital farming. However, only few studies have examined the digital twin in terms of HVAC systems directly related to productivity in livestock farming. Here, we propose a novel digital twin framework for livestock farming focusing on pig houses. Livestock farming is one of perspective areas where digital twins can provide benefits for the growth of livestock and their operation in an efficient manner. To validate effect of the proposed digital twin framework for a pig house, we perform various simulations using a real-world dataset of a pig house. As a result of analyzing the energy demands for heating in pigsty based on the digital twin framework, the fan-coil unit was found to be the most energy efficient. In addition, when the optimal control of the HVAC system was applied, it was found to be more energy efficient than the conventional control method. The results obtained in this study show that our approach is superior to existing operational conventions, particularly in terms of energy efficiency.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10246265/Digital livestock farmingdigital twinenergysimulation |
| spellingShingle | Deuk-Young Jeong Seng-Kyoun Jo In-Bok Lee Hakjong Shin Jun-Gyu Kim Digital Twin Application: Making a Virtual Pig House Toward Digital Livestock Farming IEEE Access Digital livestock farming digital twin energy simulation |
| title | Digital Twin Application: Making a Virtual Pig House Toward Digital Livestock Farming |
| title_full | Digital Twin Application: Making a Virtual Pig House Toward Digital Livestock Farming |
| title_fullStr | Digital Twin Application: Making a Virtual Pig House Toward Digital Livestock Farming |
| title_full_unstemmed | Digital Twin Application: Making a Virtual Pig House Toward Digital Livestock Farming |
| title_short | Digital Twin Application: Making a Virtual Pig House Toward Digital Livestock Farming |
| title_sort | digital twin application making a virtual pig house toward digital livestock farming |
| topic | Digital livestock farming digital twin energy simulation |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10246265/ |
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