How can a pig house environment management system balance system intelligence with the flexibility of emergency operations for users?
Publish Time: 2025-11-25
In modern large-scale pig farming, the quality of the pig house environment directly affects the health of the pig herd, feed conversion rate, and farming efficiency. Faced with the complex coupling of multiple variables such as temperature, humidity, ammonia concentration, and ventilation volume, traditional manual control is no longer sufficient. The pig house environment management system has emerged to address this, achieving highly intelligent operation through advanced technologies such as multi-indicator collaborative control, patented algorithm automatic optimization, and IoT remote management. However, even the most advanced systems must handle unexpected situations—equipment malfunctions, extreme weather, animal stress, etc.—requiring rapid intervention from farmers. Therefore, a truly excellent system must achieve a delicate balance between "fully automatic intelligence" and "humanized manual operation," freeing up manpower without sacrificing control.1. Intelligent Core: Autonomous Decision-Making, No On-Duty RequiredThe system is equipped with Yuhong's patented "Automatic Environmental Indicator Setting System," which dynamically generates the optimal target temperature based on season, age, stocking density, and external climate, and coordinates with equipment such as fans, evaporative cooling pads, and heaters to execute corresponding operating plans. More importantly, it employs a multi-factor collaborative control logic: temperature is the primary control variable, while humidity and ammonia concentration are used as correction factors. Through "odor gradient treatment technology," it intelligently adjusts the variable frequency fan speed, preventing excessive humidity or insufficient ventilation from causing ammonia accumulation due to simple cooling. This dialectical balance mechanism ensures the pigsty environment remains within a comfortable and stable range, achieving true "unmanned intervention and autonomous optimization."2. Manual Access: User Control in Critical MomentsDespite the system's high degree of automation, it retains full manual operation permissions. In special management situations such as vaccination, regrouping, or disease outbreaks, the farmer can switch to "manual mode" with a single click on the control panel to independently start/stop fans, adjust heating power, or force ventilation. This function doesn't simply override automatic commands but has safety boundaries—for example, if the ammonia concentration approaches a dangerous threshold when manually shutting down a fan, the system will issue an audible and visual alert to prevent accidental risks. This "limited freedom" design concept grants users emergency response rights while incorporating an intelligent safety net, ensuring flexibility doesn't come at the expense of safety.3. Transparent Interaction: Making Intelligence "Visible and Understandable"The reliability of the intelligent system stems from its transparency. Equipped with a high-definition touchscreen, the system displays real-time temperature and humidity, ammonia gas curves, equipment status, and historical trends. It accurately pinpoints fault points through 33 types of text-based alarms, significantly reducing the technical barrier for frontline users. Even zookeepers unfamiliar with automated equipment can quickly determine whether manual intervention is necessary based on the prompts. Simultaneously, the IoT platform supports remote viewing and control via mobile phone, allowing for decisions on temporary mode switching from off-site, achieving dual protection of "intelligent management + remote intervention."4. Redundancy and Safety: Flexibility Remains Online Even When Intelligence FailsTo prevent system paralysis due to a single point of failure, the system adopts a modular architecture—ventilation, temperature control, and alarm subsystems are independent, and an malfunction in any module does not affect overall operation. It also features dual power redundancy: after the main control system trips, the backup system automatically and seamlessly takes over when the mains power is normal, ensuring uninterrupted environmental control. Even in extreme cases requiring complete manual operation, all actuators retain physical switch interfaces, guaranteeing basic manual control capabilities.The pig house environment management system is not designed to replace humans, but rather to build a collaborative ecosystem that is "primarily intelligent, supplemented by human intervention, and with safety as a safety net." It uses algorithms to handle routine tasks, permissions to preserve emergency control, and transparent interactions to build bridges of trust. This dual respect for intelligence and humanity allows technology to truly serve the front lines of pig farming, improving production efficiency while safeguarding users' sense of control and security.
