Key challenges
Challenges farmers facing today
- Rely on manual observations and tail chalking, poor insemination index and reproduction, excessive reliance on hormone process, large amount of hormone usage and high cost;
- Relying on manual inspections to detect diseases, sick cows are found late, higher treatmer costs, have more milk resistance, and are more passively culled.
- Heavy workload, and high labour cost. The effort for observation is large and there is not enough staff to invest surfficient time in oestrus and disease monitoring.
How does it work
Rumen bolus injection
Once inserted into a cattle by a standard bolus gun, this eco-friendly rumen bolus will remain in the rumen. Battery life up to 5 years, causes no harm to the cattle.
Automatically data reports
The rumen bolus collects the cow's data every 12 mins and reports to the LoRaWAN base station installed at a cattle barn or outdoor farm. Then, the base station stores them locally or sends them to the online database.
Web and mobile applications
The platform analyzes the cow’s activity via all the data reported. Access critical data, real time notifications, trend analysis, web and mobile applications for improved farm management.
Real-time alert and rapid measures
Actionable management decisions are pushed and presented to farmers, vets and feeding experts on the health, wellbeing, reproduction and nutrition to make rapid measures possible.
Monitoring Points
Water intake times
Body temperature
Cow activity
Steps per day
System Features & Benefits
Accurate Heat Detection, 24/7
For certain dairy cows show shorter and weaker signs of heat, which additionally often takes place at night. The effort for observation is large and there is not enough staff to invest sufficient time in oestrus monitoring. The rumen bolus provides accurate and time-sensitive heat detection data for improving your herd‘s pregnancy rate, enabling you to take measures at the right time and increase reproductive success on your farm.
Accurate Health Monitoring
On-going activity data, real-time rumen temperature monitoring, and continuous monitoring of drinking behavior feeds into animal health monitoring. Even when you are not in the farm, you can check the cow’s activity and health status by using the Digit Farm System. Which enables timely and targeted medication treatments, reduce the cost caused by diseases, increase the productivity as well as the animal welfare.
Real time alerts of calving events
Temperature decreases considerably when the calving process starts. There is no need to set an alarm at night to check if the cow is giving birth. The Digit Farm System analyzes mommy cow’s activity, feeding term, temperature and informs possible calving period to the farmer.
Digit Farm Platform
Access the farm status anytime, anywhere
Cattle History
Disease Treatment
Calving schedule
Automatic Alarm
Feed management