As poultry production systems become increasingly automated, monitoring systems are
being integrated with control systems to provide growers with real-time and historical
information on how various systems such as environment control, feeding, egg handling,
and water are performing. The use of buildings that are 400 or more feet in length and
which may be from hundreds of feet to miles away from the farm office presents a
number of technical problems to the farm manager who wants to carefully monitor and
control the conditions in poultry houses.