Environmental Monitoring in an Emu Farm Date Published: July 31,
2012 Automated Monitoring Solution Logs Almost Any Signal
Recently CAS DataLoggers provided the comprehensive
environmental monitoring system for a large emu farm’s animal
husbandry project. The farm’s male emus were devoted parents,
incubating their partners’ eggs. Given that they neither ate nor
drank while on duty, their owners needed to know if they were
developing any health risks during this dedicated eight-week
fast. A clutch of 9-11 eggs were laid over approximately 27-30
days, and since incubation often began before the last couple of
eggs were laid, these last-laid eggs needed to develop 3-6 days
faster than the others. In order to accurately temperature
profile the incubation process, the owners required accurate
data from 54 recording channels and easy connection with a
computer. For this ambitious application, the farm needed a
flexible monitoring system which could measure temperature,
humidity, and many other parameters and connec