@conference {3672,
	title = {From monitoring to precision phenotyping: towards a systemic use of precision livestock measures in dairy herds},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {75},
	year = {2015},
	month = {07/2015},
	pages = {145-148},
	address = {Dunedin},
	abstract = { There is an untapped potential to combine the measures from precision livestock farming to provide improved, biologically
meaningful, phenotypes. At present, it is generally the case that precision livestock solutions are developed for the purposes of
monitoring one particular condition, and very often using only one measure. It has been shown that combinations of precision
livestock measures may provide a fuller, and more robust, description of the condition. These may be both combinations of full
continuous signals (e.g., milk yield and electrical conductivity) or sequential combinations. Sequential combinations are those
in which a cheap, easy-to-deploy but usually less precise signal is used to provide first-level monitoring but is set up to initiate
a second-level, more precise, and usually more expensive, monitoring when the first indicator indicates change from the normal
state. The usefulness of combined measures benefit from being developed with a systemic view of the underlying biology, leading
to a subsequent improvement in the precision of the resulting phenotypes. The deployment of combined measures for phenotyping
is becoming increasingly important, particularly in the context of addressing more complex traits such as robustness in genomic
selection and when considering the animal{\textquoteright}s role in herd level resilience.},
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Friggens NC and Thorup VM}
}
