WO2005104930A1 - Animal health monitoring system - Google Patents

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WO2005104930A1
WO2005104930A1 PCT/AU2005/000616 AU2005000616W WO2005104930A1 WO 2005104930 A1 WO2005104930 A1 WO 2005104930A1 AU 2005000616 W AU2005000616 W AU 2005000616W WO 2005104930 A1 WO2005104930 A1 WO 2005104930A1
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Timothy Bos
Alan Galloway
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
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    • A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CARE OF BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
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  • the invention relates to remote animal monitoring and, in particular, to a remote animal health and location monitoring system.
  • the invention has been developed primarily with respect to humans and farm livestock and will be described hereinafter with reference to these application. However, it will be appreciated that the invention is not limited to this particular field of use and can be used to remotely monitor the health of other animals.
  • a remote animal health and location monitoring system including: an implantable or wearable monitoring device configured to be subcutaneously implanted into an animal or be worn thereby, the implant device including; a monitoring device housing; one or more sensors disposed in the housing and configured for sampling one or more predetermined physical properties of the animal; a monitoring device controller disposed in the housing and in communication with the sensors for receiving sensor signals indicative of the predetermined physical properties; a monitoring device transmitter disposed in the housing and in communication with the monitoring device controller and the transmitter, configured for transmitting over various communication channels the monitoring device transmitter signals indicative of the sensed physical properties; and a monitoring device power source in communication with the sensors, the monitoring device controller and the transmitter; and a pervasive communications apparatus disposed remotely from the monitoring device and configured to receive broadcast monitoring device transmitter signals and to rebroadcast or display information indicative of the broadcast physical properties and GPSW location of the animal.
  • the one or more sensors are configured to sample the one or more predetermined physical properties of the animal at predetermined periodic intervals, and the monitoring device transmitter is configured to broadcast the transmitter signals indicative of the sensed physical properties at these periodic intervals.
  • the predetermined physical properties of the animal include temperature, ECG patterns, predetermined blood toxicology, biometric impedance and body fat, hormone levels, heart rate, blood sugar levels, blood oxygenation lactic acid levels and pH levels.
  • the monitoring device includes a monitoring device receiver configured for receiving remote signals for remotely programming the monitoring device, the signals sent from the pervasive communications apparatus and received by the monitoring device controller via the momtoring device receiver.
  • the system includes including a plurality of pervasive mobile telephone apparatus disposed remotely from the monitoring device.
  • the system includes a plurality of momtoring devices each configured to transmit monitoring device transmitter signals to one or more pervasive communications devices.
  • the momtoring device includes a GPS receiver disposed within the housing and in communication with the monitoring device controller wherein the monitoring device transmitter is configured to broadcast information indicative of the location of the animal provided from the GPS receiver.
  • the power source is a battery in electrical communication with a kinetic or induction powered energy charging device, and the power source is a battery in communication with a charging element configured to receive radio frequency energy transmitted from a remote location.
  • the pervasive communications apparatus includes data storage device for storing information transmitted thereto, and the pervasive communications apparatus transmits monitoring information to the application database via WiFi, GSM, CDMA, 3G, satellite or Bluetooth (TM).
  • WiFi Wireless Fidelity
  • CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
  • 3G Fifth Generation
  • satellite Wireless Fidelity
  • Bluetooth TM
  • the monitoring device is implanted subcutaneously in the animal and the monitoring device transmitter signal broadcast thereby is received by pervasive communications apparatus disposed externally on a portion of the animal body and in turn transmitted via WiFi, RF, GSM, CDMA, 3G, satellite, Bluetooh (TM) or mobile phone signal to a remote application database.
  • the animal is a human, equine, bovine or canine animal.
  • the monitoring device is wearable on an external portion of the animal and is in the form of bracelet or watch, and the monitoring device transmitter automatically transmits a signal to a pervasive mobile telephone apparatus when one or more of the predetermined physical properties sensed falls outside a predetermined range.
  • the monitoring device and pervasive mobile telephone apparatus communicate via the 3G mobile telephone protocol, blue tooth TM protocol or other radio frequency protocol.
  • a remote animal health monitoring system that can provide signals indicative of the health of an animal that can advantageously inform interested parties, such as patient's doctor, a prison guard, air traffic controller or other interested person of changes in the health of an animal.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an animal health monitoring system according to the preferred embodiment.
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an animal health momtoring device in the system of FIG. l; and FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a pervasive communications apparatus of the system of FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 4 is an embodiment of a repeater collar that can be used with the animal health monitoring system of the present invention.
  • FIG. 1 there is schematically illustrated an animal health monitoring device system 1.
  • the system includes an implantable monitoring device 2, however, the monitoring device 2 can be wearable by the animal.
  • the implant monitoring device 2 is configured to be subcutaneously implanted into a person or farm animal (not illustrated). It is noted, however, that the implant device can be subcutaneously implanted into any other preferred animal also.
  • the implant monitoring device 2 includes a sealed and biologically inert housing 3.
  • the housing is preferably sealed, however, it need not be biologically inert.
  • the housing 3 contains a plurality of sensors 4, two in the embodiment of FIG. 1.
  • the two sensors 4 are configured for sensing the temperature and electrocardiogram (ECG) patterns of the animal. It will be appreciated, however, that any preferred number of sensors 4 for detecting any preferred physical properties such as biometric impedance and body fat, hormone levels, heart rate, blood pressure, blood sugar, or oxygenation, or any other physical property of interest can be sensed.
  • the implant device housing 3 further contains an implant monitoring device controller 5 in communication with the sensors 4 for receiving sensor signals indicative of the sensed properties, temperature and ECG pattern in the embodiment of FIG. 1.
  • An implant device transmitter 6 is in communication with the implant monitoring device controller 5 and configured for transmitting or broadcasting monitoring device transmitter signals indicative of the sensed physical properties as provided by the sensors 4 via the implant controller 5.
  • the implant monitoring device 2 further includes a power source 7 in communication with the sensors 4, transmitter 6 and implant controller 5 for providing power thereto.
  • the battery is contained within the inert momtoring device housing 3.
  • the monitoring device transmitter 6 is an RF transmitter configured to communicate to the pervasive communications apparatus 8 or a device (not shown).
  • the power source shown in FIG. 1 is a battery 7 and although not illustrated, battery 7 is in communication with an RF induction energy receiving device configured for receiving RF energy from the base station or other RF signal source for inductively charging the battery 7.
  • battery 7 can be a sealed non-rechargeable battery or a rechargeable battery in communication with a power source derived from kinetic energy provided by the animal.
  • the battery can simply be a standard non-rechargeable dry cell battery.
  • the system 1 further includes a plurality of pervasive communications apparatus 8 and 10 disposed remotely from the implant device 2. It is noted that either the pervasive communications apparatus 8 communicates to a remote application database 9 by way of RF, WiFi, GSM, 3G CDMA or satellite.
  • the pervasive communications apparatus 8 and 10 are configured to receive signals from the implant device transmitter 6, these signals being indicative of the physical property sensed by sensors 4.
  • any number of pervasive devices such as a PDA, mobile phone, laptop computer or desktop computer, can be in communication with the application database 9 for receiving information indicative of the one or more sensed properties via satellite, terrestrial or other base stations or repeater stations (not illustrated).
  • the pervasive communications apparatus are configured to display and store the transmitted information, inclusive of any recent historical or previously received data from the monitoring device 2. It is noted that each of the pervasive communications apparatus 8 or 10 are capable of communicating the received information indicative of the sensed properties to an application database 9.
  • the pervasive communications apparatus 8 and 10 can communicate with the application database 9 by any preferred communication means such as GSM or 3G modem connection, direct dial mobile telephone connection, line of sight microwave transmission, blue tooth TM protocol transmission, or line of sight IR communication.
  • GSM or 3G modem connection direct dial mobile telephone connection
  • line of sight microwave transmission line of sight microwave transmission
  • blue tooth TM protocol transmission line of sight IR communication.
  • the information indicative of the sensed predetermined properties can then be viewed, stored, manipulated, transmitted, or otherwise used as is preferred.
  • the monitoring device 2 whether implantable or wearable, can be configured to sense the one or more predetermined physical properties of the animal at predetermined and periodical intervals such as every 30 minutes or other interval which will allow appropriate review of the predetermined physical properties by a user or users of the pervasive communications apparatus or other users of the convention computing apparatus that has received that data.
  • the user or users of the system can then promptly take action in response to sensed predetermined physical properties that fall outside a predetermined range, for example, an elevated heart rate, temperature, oxygenation or blood sugar level.
  • the system 1 can also be configured such that the monitoring device 2 continually senses the predetermined physical properties and transmits a signal indicative of these properties via the transmitter 6 once the properties fall outside a predetermined range or value, thus acting as an alarm or alert.
  • the pervasive communications apparatus 8 and 10 or the application database 9 can be configured to communicate with the monitoring device 2 (via the pervasive communications apparatus 8 and 10 for the conventional computing apparatus) to transmit a program signal to an RF receiver integrated into the RF transmitter 6 disposed within the monitoring device 2.
  • the monitoring device controller 5 can be reconfigured to sense other predetermined physical properties, correct for any measurement errors in the operation of the sensors 4 such as calibrations or provide output in a predetermined fo ⁇ n or at differing time intervals or in response to different preferred predetermined ranges of sensed signals before activating alarm conditions.
  • system 1 in use also provides the location of an animal wearing the pervasive communications device 8.
  • the implant device transmitter 6 also includes an RF receiver that is configured to receive program signals from a pervasive communications apparatus 8 or 10, the system 1 can be configured to allow interrogation by the pervasive communications apparatus of the momtoring device 2 to cause the monitoring device transmitter 6 to transmit information indicative of the 1 or more predetermined physical properties sensed by the senses 4 outside the periodic measurement intervals or when the sensed properties to not fall outside a predetermined range.
  • the system 1 can be configured to allow interrogation by the pervasive communications apparatus of the momtoring device 2 to cause the monitoring device transmitter 6 to transmit information indicative of the 1 or more predetermined physical properties sensed by the senses 4 outside the periodic measurement intervals or when the sensed properties to not fall outside a predetermined range.
  • Such a feature can be used amongst other things to provide a system 1 test mechanism.
  • an external RF repeating device or repeater collar 20 can be disposed on the neck or other part of the animal to receive the signals transmitted by the monitoring device transmitter 6 to be re-broadcast to the application database 9 directly or via conventional RF or mobile telephone base stations thereto.
  • the collar 20 comprises an RF Transceiver 21, a battery (or batteries) 22, an implant reader in the form of microprocessor 23, a removable GPS receiver 24, a visible alert unit in the form of LEDs 25 and a fastener 26 for securing the collar to the animal.
  • system 1 has been described with reference to human and farmed animals, it can equally and easily be configured for use in any other preferred animals such as bovine or canines. Modifications, obvious to those skilled in the art, can be made to the system 1 to allow it to be used for other types of animals, for example, having different transceiver transmission powers or battery sizes including sensors which are specifically configured for measuring a predetermined physical property of the particular animal, to implant part of the monitoring device 2 subcutaneously in an animal and another part (such as the battery and transmitter) wearably on a collar or the like on the animal.
  • a plurality of monitoring devices 2 can be used to communicate signals of the sensed physical property(s) to one or more pervasive mobile telephone devices. Likewise, two or more monitoring devices 2 can be used to measure the same or different physical properties of one animal.

Abstract

The remote animal health and location monitoring system (1) includes an implantable/wearable monitoring device (2). The monitoring device includes a housing (3). The housing includes a plurality of sensors (4) configured for sampling one or more predetermined conditions of the animal. The housing further contains a monitoring device controller (5) in communication with the sensors for receiving signals indicative of the conditions. A monitoring device transmitter (6) is in communication with the sensors for receiving signals indicative of the conditions. A monitoring device transmitter (6) is in communication with the monitoring device controller and configured for transmitting or broadcasting transmitter signals as sensed by the sensors. The monitoring device further includes a power source (7) in communication with the sensors, controller and transmitter. The system further includes a plurality of pervasive communications apparatus (8, 10) disposed remotely from the monitoring device. The communications apparatus is configured to display and store or rebroadcast the information indicative of the condition of the animal.

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ANIMAL HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM
TECHNICAL FIELD
The invention relates to remote animal monitoring and, in particular, to a remote animal health and location monitoring system.
The invention has been developed primarily with respect to humans and farm livestock and will be described hereinafter with reference to these application. However, it will be appreciated that the invention is not limited to this particular field of use and can be used to remotely monitor the health of other animals.
BACKGROUND The monitoring of human health and location is a large field of endeavour for the medically ill or potentially medically ill, athletes, pilots, prisoners and other such people. It is vital that such people are kept in the best of possible health as unforeseen illnesses or untoward happenings such as a person being lost or kidnapped that falls ill, for example, or a pilot on a long distance flight falling ill are highly undesirable.
In order to be continually monitored, a person must typically visit their local doctor or a hospital, which is expensive or impractical to do on a very regular basis, or for people who are not already relatively ill. For example, it would be advantageous to be able to remotely monitor the health of a person so as to foresee potentially problematic illnesses as the old adage that "an ounce or prevention is worth a pound of cure" is widely accepted and as early notification of any illnesses as possible is highly advantageous.
In the case of farmed animals, it is generally well understood that these are very valuable to an owner by way of income or other livestock they can produce. A well bred breeding animal, such as a thoroughbred racehorse with a proven track record or an extremely fine woolled sheep can be said to be worth their weight in gold for the income they can produce. As with the groups of people noted above, it would be advantageous to know as soon as possible of any changes in the person or farm animals health, such as a rise in temperature, heart problem, virus, or movement outside a pre-defined area, so that appropriate remedial action can be taken as quickly as possible. It is generally understood that if remedial action is taken relatively quickly, it is often the case that longer term or more severe injury or death of a person or farm animal can be avoided. Further, it is noted that in the case of farmed animals, visiting or live in vets provide health monitoring which adds an additional layer of difficulty to early diagnosis, as the animals cannot speak to the vets.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a remote animal health monitoring system that overcomes or substantially ameliorates at least some of the problems of the prior art, or to provide a useful alternative.
SUMMARY OF INVENTION According to a first aspect of the invention there is provided a remote animal health and location monitoring system including: an implantable or wearable monitoring device configured to be subcutaneously implanted into an animal or be worn thereby, the implant device including; a monitoring device housing; one or more sensors disposed in the housing and configured for sampling one or more predetermined physical properties of the animal; a monitoring device controller disposed in the housing and in communication with the sensors for receiving sensor signals indicative of the predetermined physical properties; a monitoring device transmitter disposed in the housing and in communication with the monitoring device controller and the transmitter, configured for transmitting over various communication channels the monitoring device transmitter signals indicative of the sensed physical properties; and a monitoring device power source in communication with the sensors, the monitoring device controller and the transmitter; and a pervasive communications apparatus disposed remotely from the monitoring device and configured to receive broadcast monitoring device transmitter signals and to rebroadcast or display information indicative of the broadcast physical properties and GPSW location of the animal.
Preferably, the one or more sensors are configured to sample the one or more predetermined physical properties of the animal at predetermined periodic intervals, and the monitoring device transmitter is configured to broadcast the transmitter signals indicative of the sensed physical properties at these periodic intervals.
In preferred embodiments, the predetermined physical properties of the animal include temperature, ECG patterns, predetermined blood toxicology, biometric impedance and body fat, hormone levels, heart rate, blood sugar levels, blood oxygenation lactic acid levels and pH levels.
Preferably, the monitoring device includes a monitoring device receiver configured for receiving remote signals for remotely programming the monitoring device, the signals sent from the pervasive communications apparatus and received by the monitoring device controller via the momtoring device receiver.
In preferred embodiments, the system includes including a plurality of pervasive mobile telephone apparatus disposed remotely from the monitoring device. In other preferred embodiments, the system includes a plurality of momtoring devices each configured to transmit monitoring device transmitter signals to one or more pervasive communications devices.
Preferably, the momtoring device includes a GPS receiver disposed within the housing and in communication with the monitoring device controller wherein the monitoring device transmitter is configured to broadcast information indicative of the location of the animal provided from the GPS receiver. Preferably, the power source is a battery in electrical communication with a kinetic or induction powered energy charging device, and the power source is a battery in communication with a charging element configured to receive radio frequency energy transmitted from a remote location.
In preferred embodiments, the pervasive communications apparatus includes data storage device for storing information transmitted thereto, and the pervasive communications apparatus transmits monitoring information to the application database via WiFi, GSM, CDMA, 3G, satellite or Bluetooth (TM).
Preferably, the monitoring device is implanted subcutaneously in the animal and the monitoring device transmitter signal broadcast thereby is received by pervasive communications apparatus disposed externally on a portion of the animal body and in turn transmitted via WiFi, RF, GSM, CDMA, 3G, satellite, Bluetooh (TM) or mobile phone signal to a remote application database. More preferably, the animal is a human, equine, bovine or canine animal.
Preferably, the monitoring device is wearable on an external portion of the animal and is in the form of bracelet or watch, and the monitoring device transmitter automatically transmits a signal to a pervasive mobile telephone apparatus when one or more of the predetermined physical properties sensed falls outside a predetermined range.
In preferred embodiments, the monitoring device and pervasive mobile telephone apparatus communicate via the 3G mobile telephone protocol, blue tooth TM protocol or other radio frequency protocol.
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It can therefore be seen that there is provided a remote animal health monitoring system that can provide signals indicative of the health of an animal that can advantageously inform interested parties, such as patient's doctor, a prison guard, air traffic controller or other interested person of changes in the health of an animal. A preferred embodiment of the invention will now be described, by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an animal health monitoring system according to the preferred embodiment.
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an animal health momtoring device in the system of FIG. l; and FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a pervasive communications apparatus of the system of FIG. 1.
FIG. 4 is an embodiment of a repeater collar that can be used with the animal health monitoring system of the present invention.
Referring to the drawings generally, it is noted that like reference numerals refer to like components.
MODE OF CARRYING OUT INVENTION In FIG. 1, there is schematically illustrated an animal health monitoring device system 1. The system includes an implantable monitoring device 2, however, the monitoring device 2 can be wearable by the animal.
The implant monitoring device 2 is configured to be subcutaneously implanted into a person or farm animal (not illustrated). It is noted, however, that the implant device can be subcutaneously implanted into any other preferred animal also.
The implant monitoring device 2 includes a sealed and biologically inert housing 3. In the case of a wearable device (not illustrated), the housing is preferably sealed, however, it need not be biologically inert. The housing 3 contains a plurality of sensors 4, two in the embodiment of FIG. 1. The two sensors 4 are configured for sensing the temperature and electrocardiogram (ECG) patterns of the animal. It will be appreciated, however, that any preferred number of sensors 4 for detecting any preferred physical properties such as biometric impedance and body fat, hormone levels, heart rate, blood pressure, blood sugar, or oxygenation, or any other physical property of interest can be sensed.
The implant device housing 3 further contains an implant monitoring device controller 5 in communication with the sensors 4 for receiving sensor signals indicative of the sensed properties, temperature and ECG pattern in the embodiment of FIG. 1. An implant device transmitter 6 is in communication with the implant monitoring device controller 5 and configured for transmitting or broadcasting monitoring device transmitter signals indicative of the sensed physical properties as provided by the sensors 4 via the implant controller 5.
The implant monitoring device 2 further includes a power source 7 in communication with the sensors 4, transmitter 6 and implant controller 5 for providing power thereto. The battery is contained within the inert momtoring device housing 3. The monitoring device transmitter 6 is an RF transmitter configured to communicate to the pervasive communications apparatus 8 or a device (not shown).
It is noted that the power source shown in FIG. 1 is a battery 7 and although not illustrated, battery 7 is in communication with an RF induction energy receiving device configured for receiving RF energy from the base station or other RF signal source for inductively charging the battery 7. It is noted, however, that in other embodiments of the invention (not illustrated), battery 7 can be a sealed non-rechargeable battery or a rechargeable battery in communication with a power source derived from kinetic energy provided by the animal. Further, it is noted that in embodiments where the monitoring device 2 is worn by the animal (not illustrated) the battery can simply be a standard non-rechargeable dry cell battery.
The system 1 further includes a plurality of pervasive communications apparatus 8 and 10 disposed remotely from the implant device 2. It is noted that either the pervasive communications apparatus 8 communicates to a remote application database 9 by way of RF, WiFi, GSM, 3G CDMA or satellite.
The pervasive communications apparatus 8 and 10 are configured to receive signals from the implant device transmitter 6, these signals being indicative of the physical property sensed by sensors 4. As can be seen, any number of pervasive devices, such as a PDA, mobile phone, laptop computer or desktop computer, can be in communication with the application database 9 for receiving information indicative of the one or more sensed properties via satellite, terrestrial or other base stations or repeater stations (not illustrated).
Once the monitoring device transmitter signal is received from the monitoring device 2, the pervasive communications apparatus are configured to display and store the transmitted information, inclusive of any recent historical or previously received data from the monitoring device 2. It is noted that each of the pervasive communications apparatus 8 or 10 are capable of communicating the received information indicative of the sensed properties to an application database 9.
The pervasive communications apparatus 8 and 10 can communicate with the application database 9 by any preferred communication means such as GSM or 3G modem connection, direct dial mobile telephone connection, line of sight microwave transmission, blue tooth TM protocol transmission, or line of sight IR communication. The information indicative of the sensed predetermined properties can then be viewed, stored, manipulated, transmitted, or otherwise used as is preferred.
In use, the monitoring device 2, whether implantable or wearable, can be configured to sense the one or more predetermined physical properties of the animal at predetermined and periodical intervals such as every 30 minutes or other interval which will allow appropriate review of the predetermined physical properties by a user or users of the pervasive communications apparatus or other users of the convention computing apparatus that has received that data.
The user or users of the system can then promptly take action in response to sensed predetermined physical properties that fall outside a predetermined range, for example, an elevated heart rate, temperature, oxygenation or blood sugar level. As noted above, the system 1 can also be configured such that the monitoring device 2 continually senses the predetermined physical properties and transmits a signal indicative of these properties via the transmitter 6 once the properties fall outside a predetermined range or value, thus acting as an alarm or alert. Although not illustrated, it is noted that the pervasive communications apparatus 8 and 10 or the application database 9 can be configured to communicate with the monitoring device 2 (via the pervasive communications apparatus 8 and 10 for the conventional computing apparatus) to transmit a program signal to an RF receiver integrated into the RF transmitter 6 disposed within the monitoring device 2.
Upon receipt by the monitoring device 2 of such a program signal from a pervasive communications apparatus 8 or 10, the monitoring device controller 5 can be reconfigured to sense other predetermined physical properties, correct for any measurement errors in the operation of the sensors 4 such as calibrations or provide output in a predetermined foπn or at differing time intervals or in response to different preferred predetermined ranges of sensed signals before activating alarm conditions.
As noted, the system 1 in use also provides the location of an animal wearing the pervasive communications device 8.
In some embodiments, the implant device transmitter 6 also includes an RF receiver that is configured to receive program signals from a pervasive communications apparatus 8 or 10, the system 1 can be configured to allow interrogation by the pervasive communications apparatus of the momtoring device 2 to cause the monitoring device transmitter 6 to transmit information indicative of the 1 or more predetermined physical properties sensed by the senses 4 outside the periodic measurement intervals or when the sensed properties to not fall outside a predetermined range. Such a feature can be used amongst other things to provide a system 1 test mechanism.
In embodiments of the system 1 where the monitoring device 2 is implanted in the animal, an external RF repeating device or repeater collar 20, as shown in Fig. 4, can be disposed on the neck or other part of the animal to receive the signals transmitted by the monitoring device transmitter 6 to be re-broadcast to the application database 9 directly or via conventional RF or mobile telephone base stations thereto. The collar 20 comprises an RF Transceiver 21, a battery (or batteries) 22, an implant reader in the form of microprocessor 23, a removable GPS receiver 24, a visible alert unit in the form of LEDs 25 and a fastener 26 for securing the collar to the animal. It is noted that although the system 1 has been described with reference to human and farmed animals, it can equally and easily be configured for use in any other preferred animals such as bovine or canines. Modifications, obvious to those skilled in the art, can be made to the system 1 to allow it to be used for other types of animals, for example, having different transceiver transmission powers or battery sizes including sensors which are specifically configured for measuring a predetermined physical property of the particular animal, to implant part of the monitoring device 2 subcutaneously in an animal and another part (such as the battery and transmitter) wearably on a collar or the like on the animal.
Although not illustrated, a plurality of monitoring devices 2 can be used to communicate signals of the sensed physical property(s) to one or more pervasive mobile telephone devices. Likewise, two or more monitoring devices 2 can be used to measure the same or different physical properties of one animal.
The foregoing describes only a preferred embodiment of the present invention and modifications, obvious to those skilled in the art, can be made thereto without departing from the scope of the present invention.

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1. A remote animal health and location monitoring system including: an implantable or wearable monitoring device configured to be subcutaneously implanted into an animal or be worn thereby, the implant device including; a monitoring device housing; one or more sensors disposed in the housing and configured for sampling one or more predetermined physical properties of the animal; a monitoring device controller disposed in the housing and in communication with the sensors for receiving sensor signals indicative of the predetermined physical properties; a monitoring device transmitter disposed in the housing and in communication with the monitoring device controller and the transmitter, configured for transmitting over various communication channels the monitoring device transmitter signals indicative of the sensed physical properties; and a monitoring device power source in communication with the sensors, the monitoring device controller and the transmitter; and a pervasive communications apparatus disposed remotely from the monitoring device and configured to receive broadcast monitoring device transmitter signals and to rebroadcast or display information indicative of the broadcast physical properties and GPS location of the animal.
2. A system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the one or more sensors are configured to sample the one or more predetermined physical properties of the animal at predetermined periodic intervals, and the monitoring device transmitter is configured to broadcast the transmitter signals indicative of the sensed physical properties at these periodic intervals.
3. A system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the predetermined physical properties of the animal include temperature, ECG patterns, predetermined blood toxicology, biometric impedance and body fat, hormone levels, heart rate, blood sugar levels, blood oxygenation, lactic acid levels andpH levels.
4. A system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the monitoring device includes a monitoring device receiver configured for receiving remote signals for remotely programming the monitoring device, the signals sent from the pervasive communications apparatus and received by the monitoring device controller via the monitoring device receiver.
5. A system as claimed in claim 1 including a plurality of pervasive communications apparatus disposed remotely from the monitoring device.
6. A system as claimed in claim 1 including a plurality of monitoring devices each configured to transmit monitoring device transmitter signals to one or more pervasive mobile telephone devices.
7. A system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the monitoring device includes a GPS receiver disposed within the housing and in communication with the monitoring device controller wherein the monitoring device transmitter is configured to broadcast information indicative of the location of the animal provided from the GPS receiver.
8. A system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the power source is a battery in electrical communication with a kinetic or induction powered energy charging device.
9. A system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the power source is a battery in communication with a charging element configured to receive radio frequency energy transmitted from a remote location.
10. A system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the pervasive communications apparatus includes data storage device for storing information transmitted thereto.
11. A system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the pervasive communications apparatus transmits monitoring information to the application database via WiFi, RF, GSM, CDMA, 3G, satellite or Bluetooth (TM).
12. A system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the monitoring device is implanted subcutaneously in the animal and the monitoring device transmitter signal broadcast thereby is received by pervasive communications apparatus disposed externally on a portion of the animal body.
13. A system as claimed in claim 12, wherein said pervasive communications apparatus is disposed on a wearable item in the form of a bracelet, watch or collar.
14. A system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the wearable item comprises a power source.
15. A system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the wearable item includes a visible alert unit.
16. A system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the wearable item includes a GPS module.
17. A system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the wearable item includes a microprocessor for processing the signal broadcast form the monitoring device.
18. A system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the animal is a human, equine, bovine or canine animal.
19. A system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the monitoring device is wearable on an external portion of the animal and is in the form of bracelet or watch
20. A system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the monitoring device transmitter automatically transmits a signal to a pervasive communications apparatus when one or more of the predetermined physical properties sensed falls outside a predetermined range.
21. A system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the monitoring device and pervasive communications apparatus communicate via the 3G, GSM or CDMA mobile telephone protocols, Bluetooth (TM) protocol, WiFI protocol, or other radio frequency protocol.
22. A system being substantially as herein described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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