ISSN 1054-6618, Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, 2018, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 133–141. © Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2018. Monitoring Animal Diseases in Remote Area 1 J. L. Raheja a, *, Himani Gupta b, **, and A. Chaudhary c, *** a Control and Automation Unit, Cyber-Physical Systems, CEERI, Pilani, India b Cyber Physical Systems, CEERI, Pilani, India c Dept. of Computer Science, NWMSU, USA * e-mail: jagdish@ceeri.ernet.in ** e-mail: himani_gupta22@yahoo.com *** e-mail: dr.ankit@ieee.org Abstract—In densely populated countries, medical facilities are not much available in country-side areas. If it is about animal health, it is rare to get a good cure. The owner has to take the animal to the Vet and will have to do it every time if he is living in remote places. Most countries in South Asia have this situation where ani- mal husbandry is a common source of earning bread. Many times either the animal is not getting cure on time or diseases are detected at a later stage which harms them most. This paper describes a cellular communica- tion based mobile system which can be used to monitor the health of animals in the remote country-side area. Also, the owner can get a prescription from the doctor and cure animals according to doctor’s advice. The developed system uses client-server model and can work for multiple patients who are connected with the same doctor. The Vet can access this system on his PDA or desktop using a web application. Keywords: animal health, GPRS, mobile communication, decision support system, VET, remote monitoring, animal husbandry DOI: 10.1134/S1054661818010145 1. INTRODUCTION In today’s era, the use of mobile phones and its capabilities has increased to a greater extent that is leading to the exploration of new possibilities in the coming future. As an example of this exploration, the use of mobile phones for healthcare has gained in recent years the attention of the research community. But, in present no such extensive research has been developed towards this field of medical healthcare. The use of remote monitoring system is increasing in almost all the expected applications. Recently, some research is going on towards the growth of medical field using information technology on the basis of computers, mobile phones, and the networks. The mobile phones which integrate various functions, such as personal information management, camera and application platform, they are increasingly being used in many applications. The system discussed here is developed to deal with a concept of monitoring the animals for their healthcare using mobile communica- tion. Mobile phones make it possible to transfer large data, such as photos, movies and application files etc. The use of these mobile phones in the medical field has many possibilities to bring anew era of medicine. 1 The article is published in the original. In South Asia, domestic animals are cows, buffa- los, horses, dogs, cats, camels (in desert area), ele- phant, goat, sheep, hen, duck etc. They are tamed and then trained for performing different works. Hence, these animals play important role in the life of their owners, so they are well cared by their masters. There exist many diseases which can infect animals. The spread of several diseases can be controlled by proper preventive and sanitary measures. An owner can easily be able to recognize if an animal is sick by observing its feeding habit, its normal posture, its definite body temperature, pulse rates, and respiration rates [1]. Detection of sickness in animals at the early stages can aid the farm-manager (owner) in restricting the spread of disease in the flock and initiating treatment at the earliest. The owner can identify the symptoms of the disease in the animal and can take precautions, con- trol, and treatment measures as soon as possible but in the current scenario, he has to go to the hospital. So there exists a need for aremote monitoring system to assist the owners of animals for diseases anywhere anytime same as it is needed for human [2]. 2. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE As discussed above, with the advancement in the technology and the need of remote service, there exists a requirement of a remote monitoring system for the animal to give proper medical assistance to all the users. The primary objective of this project is to develop a reliable, efficient and easily deployable APPLIED PROBLEMS Received June 5, 2016