Monitor cows with sensors and barn cameras

Farmers monitor animal health, heat and calving with sensors and cameras in the barn

Needs setupAI Act: no extra obligationsMonitoring sensor and machine dataAgriculture

Fits: Production, engineering & maintenance

Heat, early signs of illness and imminent calving are noticed even when nobody is in the barn. You inseminate at the right time, treat earlier and are there in time for difficult births.

Is this for you?

  • You keep so many animals that you cannot watch each one several times a day.
  • Your cows already wear collar or leg sensors, or you are considering buying them.
  • Heat detection, metabolic disorders after calving or births at night currently cost you time and money.
First step today

Export the daily activity and rumination values for a few cows over one week from your herd management software and have them checked with the template below. Compare the result with what you saw in the barn that week.

How to go about it

  1. Define the group of animals and the goal
  2. Fit sensors and collect data
  3. Let the system learn each cow’s normal behaviour
  4. Set alert thresholds
  5. Build alerts into barn work
  6. Track hits and false alerts

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