Modeling Livestock Procedures Toward Precision and Sustainable Livestock Farm in Era of Virtual Technologies: Lessons, Opportunities, Avenues of Digitization

Abstract

Presently, contemporary and virtual technologies that are being embraced by many businesses have a favorable influence. For instance, biometric sensors of the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), big data (BD), blockchain technology (BCT), and so on in livestock permit the real-time observation of the health and behavior of animals. Also, monitoring helps prevent deterioration, diagnose injuries, and stress, and sustain productivity. The collected data from biometric sensors is analyzed by using BD securing the processed information and making it transparent for partners using BCT. Achieving safety and security through collaborating human robots (cobots) Accordingly, these technologies turn traditional livestock into precision livestock farms (PrLFs). Currently, the concept of precision serves as the cornerstone for the advancement of sustainable and user-friendly livestock farm management in many nations as well as globally. Hence, the objective of this study is to embrace the concept of precision and illustrate its influence on livestock farms toward sustainability of livestock farm. These objectives consider catalysts for analyzing and evaluating the sustainability of livestock farms that embrace contemporary technologies in their operations and practices. Moreover, we are constructing an evaluation model for obtaining the most sustainable livestock farm through harassing Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) techniques where each technique is responsible for a certain function.  For instance, CRiteria Importance Through Inter-criteria Correlation (CRITIC) is utilized for obtaining the criteria’s weights and the combined compromise solution (CoCoSo) leverages the obtained weights from CRITIC for ranking the alternatives of livestock farms and recommends the most sustainable and worst alternative. The evaluation for alternatives is performed based on rating four main criteria related to sustainability’s pillars and thirteen sub-criteria. Finally, the utilized MCDM techniques are working under the authority of Triangular Neutrosophic Sets (TrNSs) to bolster these techniques when handling incomplete information and perplexed situations.