Music can affect human emotions. But who would’ve guessed that pigs are also influenced by country music or a Coldplay song? Our customer “Farmer Piet” is a pig farmer in Belgium who was eager to find out whether music affects pigs’ behaviors. If so, how can it improve their overall health?

Using our expertise in computer vision and machine learning algorithms, we got the answer! Through a mobile and desktop app, as well as a strong intuitive dashboard, “Farmer Piet” is now able to monitor and control the effect of music on his pigs. This Mediaan Conclusion solution enables him to manage different types of music for each stable, watch the live detection of the pigs and analyze their behaviors in correlation to the music through the dashboards. How cool is that? Using our Mediaan Conclusion expertise, we guided and supported our customer in an Agile fashion through numerous areas:

Our customer “Farmer Piet” got in contact with a student from the University of Gent with whom he researched how music correlates to the pigs’ behaviors. Results show that pigs recognize sounds which are expressed in their moods and behaviors. Farmer Piet did not stop here and wanted to utilize the information strategically. Can music help him improve the overall health of his pigs? If so, which music do they like? Which music increases their appetite? And how can he automatically manage the music or analyze their behaviors? He has all these burning questions and it was time for Mediaan Conclusion to step in to add some technology that supports finding some answers.

The full solution was developed by a multidisciplinary team of four Medianers; two Data Scientists, a Data Architect and a Front-end Developer. Our team uses the following technology stacks to provide the best possible solution: