Abstract:The online detection technology for rumen carbon emissions of individual dairy cows is of great significance for promoting emissions reduction and carbon mitigation in animal husbandry, and achieving sustainable high-quality development. In order to solve the problems of cumbersome, inefficient and a lack of suitable equipment for detecting individual rumen carbon emissions in China's dairy farming, an online detecting device was designed. Additionally, an SVM-based model for predicting daily methane emissions from individual cows was proposed. The equipment was mainly controlled by STM32 microprocessor, integrating RFID/methane/carbon dioxide sensors to collect data, and using LoRa/4G dual-mode communication technology to transmit data. Based on Qt Creator software/cloud platform, data was analyzed and displayed to achieve local/remote integrated monitoring, transmission, analysis and visualization of individual carbon emissions data of cows. To obtain the daily carbon emissions of individual cows, an SVM-based prediction model was constructed by using the background concentration deduction and time point alignment reconstruction methods. Field tests were conducted on 25 Holstein cows at a certain ranch in Beijing. Compared with the CO2 balance method, the SVM regression prediction model showed MAE averages of 511.13 g/d, 58.16 g/d, and 2 202.10 g/d, and MRE averages of 3.78%, 14.34%, and 8.55% for the average cattle emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and carbon, respectively. Moreover, when the fan was turned on, the SVM model predicted that the average carbon dioxide emissions, methane emissions, and carbon emission fluctuations of cattle individuals were 10.85 g/d, 8.15 g/d, and 255.35 g/d, respectively. These fluctuations were significantly smaller than those derived from the carbon dioxide balance method. This study can achieve real-time, rapid, and accurate measurement of methane and carbon dioxide emissions from individual cow rumens. It can provide technical support for the precise accounting of carbon emissions in the agricultural and livestock sectors.