User's Manual

© IceRobotics Ltd 2012 Page 2 V0.15 EN(UK)Nov 2012
Contents
1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................4
1.1 The origins of the IceQube and the CowAlert System............................................................4
1.2 Minimum System Requirements to view CowAlert................................................................5
2 Getting connected to CowAlert ......................................................................................................6
3 CowAlert Home Page ......................................................................................................................8
3.1 Navigation Bar Details (User profile and language selection) ................................................8
3.2 Navigation Bar Details.............................................................................................................9
3.3 Search for Cow or IceQube Numbers ...................................................................................10
4 Behaviour Graphs & Summary Information .................................................................................11
4.1 Behaviour graph: Hours view................................................................................................11
4.2 Behaviour Graph: Multi-day view.........................................................................................12
4.3 Behaviour Tables...................................................................................................................13
4.4 IceScore Mobility ..................................................................................................................14
4.5 Interpreting the graphs.........................................................................................................15
5 Heat Alerts ....................................................................................................................................16
5.1 Viewing recent heat alerts and their associated behaviour graphs .....................................16
5.2 Viewing all Heat alerts ..........................................................................................................17
5.3 Receiving Heat Alerts by email .............................................................................................17
6 Lying Behaviour.............................................................................................................................18
6.1 Lying behaviour for the individual cow.................................................................................18
6.2 Lying behaviour for the group or herd..................................................................................20
6.3 Lying behaviour graphs for an individual cow ......................................................................21
7 Managing Cows and IceQubes......................................................................................................22
7.1 Getting started – creating the initial association between Cows and IceQubes..................22
7.2 Generating a list of Cow numbers ........................................................................................22
7.3 Generating a list of IceQubes................................................................................................24
7.4 Attaching an IceQube to a Cow within CowAlert .................................................................25
7.5 Adding new cows to CowAlert..............................................................................................26
7.6 Detaching an IceQube from a cow number..........................................................................27
7.7 Deleting a Cow and its record from CowAlert ......................................................................28
8 Reports..........................................................................................................................................28
8.1 Lying Time .............................................................................................................................28
8.2 IceScore Mobility ..................................................................................................................30