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Developing Dairy Cattle Information System

for Livestock Farms in Indonesia

Anwar S. Ardjo1, Prayitno2, Liliek Triyono3,Eko Sedyono4

1Departement of Mechanical Engineering ,

State Politechnic of Semarang, Jln. Prof Soedarto, Semarang 50275, Indonesia

ardjo.anwars@polines.ac.id 2Departement of Electrical Engineering ,

State Politechnic of Semarang, Jln. Prof Soedarto, Semarang 50275, Indonesia

prayitno@polines.ac.id 3Departement of Electrical Engineering ,

State Politechnic of Semarang, Jln. Prof Soedarto, Semarang 50275, Indonesia

liliek.triyono@polines.ac.id 4Magister of Information System, Faculty of Information Technology

Satya Wacana Christian University, Jl. Diponegoro no. 52-60, Salatiga 50711, Indonesia

eko@staff.uksw.edu

Abstract --- The dairy cattle farms system in Indonesia is done conventionally with individual ownership. Each group of dairy cattle farmers in

a village forms a simple farm. Livestock centers in Indonesia are under the control of the district government. There are many centers of farms

scattered throughout the territory of Indonesia. Field officers recording the condition of dairy cattle manually by travelling from one farm to

another farm every two weeks may cause to obtain the latest data. Livestock records include: identity, ownership, health, maintenance, selection,

and productivity. The purpose of this research is to build the Information System of Dairy Cattle (D’Cattle) based on android. The benefit of

this research is to make it easier for the district government to record, because farmers can record themselves at any time through smartphones.

D’Cattle are built using object-oriented methods that include: inception, elaboration, construction, and transition phases. D’Cattle has 8

databases, such as: livestock, birth, buying and selling, information, death, visum, health, and expenditure. D’Cattle has been successfully built

and can be downloaded for free through google play store.

Keywords--- dairy cattle information system, livestock record, farm center, android, object oriented method

I. INTRODUCTION

Dairy cattle keeping in Indonesia is still taken care of by

households with the ownership of 2-5 tails. It is also carried

out collectively by placing dairy cows on the rural land. Some

districts in Indonesia's provinces have a number of centers of

livestock farming. Both dairy cattle get Supervision by the

district government. One of the supervisory functions is data

collection of dairy cattle done every day or every time for

there is a change. Recording data is done by officers obtained

from the local agriculture and dairy service officers obtained

by going around to the owners of dairy cattle. Newly latest

recording results can be collected by the district livestock and

agricultural officers for one to two months later. The delay in

recording will result disruption for the decision support sys-

tem to determine policy or making quick decisions during an

outbreak of livestock.

The role of the digital management system for dairy cows

involves implementing a highly-realized, [1], applicable and

integrated [1] routine, preventing disease [1] [2], and drug

management [1], environmental complexity [3], obtaining ac-

curate data [4 ], the cost is cheap [4], and is easily accessible

[4]. Data processing which includes ease of update and search

[4], processing, accessibility, data use [5] and cloud storage

[4] becomes a critical need in dairy cattle management

This study aim is to make a data system of dairy cow

quickly and easily, namely dairy cattle based information sys-

tem for farmer in Indonesia. This information system will be

installed into google play store, so the farmers can download

it for free and easily. This application is called "D'Cattle IS",

in Indonesian called "SI-Lemper", the acronym of Dairy Cat-

tle Information System. The farmers can also apply this sys-

tem for recording directly by using the smartphones. Further-

more, it can be collected on servers owned by the county live-

stock and agricultural offices. The benefits of this built system

can support the data system for the government.

II. METHOD

A. Object-Oriented Methods and Database

In establishing information systems related to dairy cattle

there are several methods with similar procedures. The first

includes: implementation plan, prospect testing & evaluation,

performance testing, conformance testing [6]. Second, in-

cludes: system modeling, system Implementation, dashboard

activity, search-by-name activity, search-by-criteria activity,

hospital activity, activity test activity, system testing, unit

testing, usability testing [4]. Third, includes: gathering re-

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quirements, design developing, deployment testing and de-

bugging, securing, enabling access to the server-side data, re-

deploying, retesting and debugging, publishing [7]. Fourth,

includes : data analyzed, investigated and proposed a system,

acquisitions data, database design, GSM implementation [8].

Firebase application will take no server programming,

easy and quicker because The application doesn’t need data

storage and it supports android clients As database firebase

can backend a lot of good users, low development time, SSL

encryption for all information exchanges, using cloud stor-

ages, real-time updated by a lot of clients. [12]. Firebase

Cloud Messaging (FCM) works cross-platform, interactive

application like android, multiple parties to send, compose

and send messages using the server app, can update the data

within nanoseconds. [13]

Firebase provided features like: analytics, authentication,

messaging, real-time database, storage, hosting, crash report-

ing. We can add firebase API to any project intended for An-

droid in simple ways [14]. The benefits of applying Firebase

are cloud-hosted databases, production-grade web content,

authentication provide backend services, simple to-use SDKs,

and instant UI, built for application developers who need to

store and serve user-generated content, a cross -platform mes-

saging Solutions, a cloud service to change your application

by requiring users to download an application update. [15]

B. Selected Methods

The study was conducted from September to November

2016. The method chosen for use in the research was Object

Oriented Development [9] [10], which consisted of Inception,

Elaboration, Construction, and Transition stages. Diagram-

matic modeling depicted unified modeling language (UML)

[9] [11]. While the database using google firebase.

III. RESULT AND DISCUSSION

A. Results of Research

1) Inception Stage

The inception stage is supported by Semarang District Ag-

ricultural and Livestock Service Office which is 20 km from

State Polytechnic Semarang campus. This regency has the

second largest Livestock Farming Center in Indonesia. The

largest Livestock Farming Center in Indonesia is located in

Boyolali district, the distance is both about 120 km. In this

preliminary study, the local agriculture and livestock offices

of the district requested that an android based dairy cattle in-

formation system that can be established for the filling of

standardized tables. The tables consist of livestock cards,

birth cards, livestock sale, information, livestock's death, live-

stock visum, animal health, and livestock movement. Figure

1 and figure 2 depict the condition of community farm.

Fig. 1 Community dairy cattle farm in ungaran village

Fig.2 Reseach team observing condition of Community farm

2) Elaboration Stage

The Elaboration stage produces several modeling diagram

such as use case diagrams, class diagrams, sequence dia-

grams, activity diagrams, and state diagrams. Figure 3 show

use case diagram and fig. 4 depict class diagram for the appli-

cation respectively.

There are 3 actors showed in the use case diagram such as

the Farmers, the field officers and the government officers.

Farmers actor in fig. 3 can fill data: livestock, buy and sell of

livestock, livestock birth, livestock death, livestock health,

livestock visum, and livestock movement. After the farmers

to fill the data then select the menu save. After that, the system

will store the data.

In addition, Actor Field Officers can view existing dairy

cattle stock data, and confirm the contents concerning data

loss and the deletion due to the movement of livestock to other

places.

Actor Government Officers have full authority to per-

form data processing such as sorting, updating, deleting,

printing, and merging on a wider database.

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Fig. 3 Use case diagram for dairy cattle information System

Fig. 4 Class diagram for dairy cattle information System

Farmers actor in figure 3 can fill data: livestock, buy and

sel of livestock, livestock birth, livestock death, livestock

health, and livestock visum. After the farmers fills the data,

he must end by pressing the save menu. Furthermore the sys-

tem will store data.

The sequence diagram in figure 5 depicts the sequences of

every actor when using “D’Catle IS”. Farmers and

Government Officers can do data entry to all of eigth forms,

but Field Officers can do data entry do form 1 and form 4

only.

Fig. 5 Sequence diagram for dairy cattle information System

Furthermore, in this stage, we approach the system into

three modules as in figure 6. database server, web-based

application and android mobile application. The database

server provides data processing and real-time synchronisation

method between two application, web and mobile application.

The web-based application enhance the government officers

to find and see the livestock data, unlike the limitation of

mobile resources, the web-based user interface give better

resource features. The Android mobile application needed by

field officers when they are in the community farm area, the

flexibility time and place to save the data into the system

while they on the field could enhance the update of livestock

data.

Fig. 6. System Diagram of Dairy Cattle Information system

3) Construction Stage

The first phase on construction stage is to choose database

server. The main function to choose the database server is the

feature to server real-time synchronization data. The proposed

solution to this problem is Google Firebase database. The da-

tabase design for this application uses NoSql for fast data ac-

cess. The NoSql database schema applies the Java Script Ob-

ject Nation (JSON) notation structure that enables database

operations on web and android platforms (interchangeable).

The database usage option falls on google firebase because it

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supports the following schemes: NoSql and JSON, and ena-

bles real time database operations. This means that when per-

forming data operations on web applications then immedi-

ately (real time) data on android applications also changed.

Figure 7 illustrates the "D'Cattle IS" scheme in which each

child-node is used to store the form data 1 to form-8 where in

each child-node form the data stored in the dairy cattle and

the owner.

Implementation of "D'Cattle IS" in the web version outline

consists of the first page and the form-1 pages to the form-8

to fill the data of cattle and breeders. The software used in the

construction phase uses sublime text3 with the JavaScript

framework AngularJs 1 and the twist bootstrap CSS frame-

work Before "D'Cattle IS" can store data, the application must

first connect to the database server that has been determined.

The implementation of the program short code to connect

to the database lies in "... / app.js" as follows: Implementation

of the initial page interface design into web application lies in

'silemper.prayitno.web.id/home' (figure 8). With frame-work

CSS twitter bootstrap makes the initial page view to be re-

sponsive (adjust the device resolution).

// Initialize Firebase

var config = {

apiKey: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",

authDomain: "si-lemper.firebaseapp.com",

databaseURL: "https://si-lemper.firebaseio.com",

storageBucket: "si-lemper.appspot.com",

messagingSenderId: "467962372556"

};

firebase.initializeApp(config);

Fig. 7 Short code of database program

Fig. 8 Website interface of Dairy Cattle Information System

4) Installation Stage

Implementation of interface design into Android applica-

tion program using android studio 2.2.2 software. With the

Android 6.0 SDK we have access to the final Android APIs

and we can target API 23. API 23 have specific features like

auto-backup and app permissions. Moving from page one to

other pages, to enter data, and display data used navigation

drawer.

Fig. 9 Uploaded D’Cattle SI or Si Lemper by google play store

Fig. 10 First page of D’Cattle SI

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Furthermore the results of the implementation program-

ming android uploaded on google play store. Figure 9 shows

D'Cattle IS (SI-Lemper) that has been installed on the

smartphone. After the application is clicked it will appear like

a figure 10 that gives the exit menu on the top right and the

start menu on the top left. Figure 11 shows the appearance of

eight forms that can be filled by the breeders in reporting the

condition of the dairy cow. Figure 12 until figur 19 shows an

example of a form 1 until form 8.

Fig. 11 Second page of D’Cattle SI after click the start menu

Fig. 12 Form 1 Livestock Card

Fig. 13 Form 2 Livestock birth card

Fig. 14 Form 3 Sell and Buy livestock card

Fig. 15 Form 4 Livestock loss card

Fig. 16 Form 5 Livestock death card

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Fig. 17 Form 6 Livestock visum card

Fig. 18 Form 7 Livestock Health card

Fig. 19 Form 8 Livestock movement

Functional testing is done operated before “D'Cattle IS” is

uploaded to google play store. Table I describes the results of

the functional tests. Training for farmers arranged for one

farmer community shows that “D'Cattel IS” very easy to

download.

B. Discussion

During the inception stage, there is much information re-

lated to livestock management. In the discussion, Government

Officers proposed that recording problems be addressed ear-

lier. The main problem is the difficulty of getting the record-

ing results quickly and routinely. Semarang District Agricul-

tural and Livestock Service Office had published a livestock

condition pad to be filled every day. The next book is changed

to e-filling called "D'Cattle SI".

The preparation of Use Case diagrams is helpful to the

Government Officers in understanding the proposed systems

we build. Our complete UML allows teams to complete the

"D'Cattle SI" application.

The option of using google firebase simplifies the compi-

lation of databases, as it avoids the complexity of inter-table

relationships. Having successfully set up the interface web-

site, we designed the interface for android apps. Several ver-

sions of the created display are discussed and simulated for

easy filling without scrolling the screen.

The final version still generates some changing going on

the horizontal screen shifting. This is taken because sliding

the screen to the right is faster and easier. Upload "D'Cattle

IS" to google play store is done by signing the account to

Google Play Developer at a cost of US $ 25.

TABLE I

FUNCTIONAL EVALUATION OF D’CATTLE

Specification Test Result

Data

server

Provides real time data on

Android and Web plat-

forms

In accordance

with system

specifications

Data base operating capa-

bilities on android and

web platforms. (inter-

changeable).

In accordance

with system

specifications

Web

App

Able to process data

(Save, Change, Search,

Delete) in real time.

In accordance

with system

specifications

Android

App

Able to process data

(Save, Change, Search,

Delete) in real time.

In accordance

with system

specifications

IV. CONCLUSION

In this paper we have presented Dairy Cattle using web and

android based information system. D’Cattle Android applica-

tion has been successfully uploaded to google play store and

play significant role for the staff district. In this work we test

on small group of farmers to show the process of downloading

and fill data can be done easily by them, necessary prior

knowledge to operate mobile phone is essential. The next

stage is to socialize the system to a wider group of farmers. It

is expected that this system can be accepted so that it can be

immediately used by farmers in various provinces in Indone-

sia.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

We would like to thank The Head of Semarang District Agri-

cultural and Livestock Service Office who had given permis-

sion to adobt the guidance book of livestock recording.

We would like to thank Director of Polytechnic State of Se-

marang who has funded the research through agreement no.

3386 / PL4.7.4.2 / PL / 2016.

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