Evaluation model for digital technology efficiency: the example of intelligent digital video monitoring of early disease diagnosis and physiological cows condition

Abstract

The paper analyzes the effectiveness of intelligent video monitoring system (IVMS) of early diagnosis of diseases and the physiological state of cows using the developed model. The research method is modeling the assessment of the economic efficiency of innovative solutions for managing complex production processes for carrying out variant calculations. The possibilities of digital intelligent systems of video monitoring and herd management in solving problems of qualitative improvement of cow health control, early diagnostics of common diseases, increase of herd reproduction indicators are considered. Approaches to improving the methods of calculating the main efficiency indicators in dairy cattle breeding in accordance with the tasks of expanded herd reproduction, reducing losses from the sale of young high-yielding cows at the height of lactation, and increasing the volume of breeding sales are proposed. The model allowing to take into account the aggregate effectiveness and economic efficiency of dairy cattle when implementing capital-intensive intelligent digital technologies has been developed. The model has been tested for variant calculations of performance indicators in the implementation of technological solutions that increase objectivity of economic efficiency evaluations of intelligent digital technologies for herd monitoring, the payback period at their design and implementation stage. The carried out calculations allow us to conclude about the high efficiency of the implementation of the proposed intelligent video monitoring system, both in large dairy complexes and on medium-scale farms with loose cows.