Location and monitor livestock outdoors

Project information
Our smart agriculture solution addresses two segments within the food distribution chain of livestock: farmers and consumers. Farmers will gain tools to manage their livestock by location and monitoring of individual animals. Consumers can learn statistics such as: life time and place of life, and reports such as veterinary reports on the meat product they are purchasing. Our SME has developed low cost devices to locate and monitor livestock outdoors. The rancher, through an app, will be able to trace and track individual animals to observe their habits and improve its care. This is a new and powerful smart tool for livestock management, eliminating the locating time for an animal, and sending notifications if any anomalies are detected, for example as a result of a health problem. To accomplish it, physical parameters, such as temperature, will be monitored. The solution will reduce operating costs and will improve the farm results. Furthermore, it can also be adapted to add value to the final product. For instance, the rancher can show how much time has the animal spent outdoors, historical of disease periods per animal, distance and movement estimation. Benefits: • Identify and locate each animal within the ranch outdoors. • Detect anomalies like body temperature, absence of activity, abnormal behaviour, or movement out of the confinement enabled areas, etc. • Long life batteries (between 6-12 months) providing low battery level warming. • Allow to the farmer to manage in real time his livestock, through a mobile application. Short term objectives: • Validate the system pilot: devices, interface, features, range, etc. in a real scenario. • Improve the performance and features of the system through the farmer feedback. • To develop a marketing strategy to reach the final users in Spain and Europe
Project partners: 
Sensowave Professional Solutions (MISC International SL)
Project dates: 
March 2014 to September 2016
Contact
Contact person: 
Carlos Callejero
Contact email: 
Contact organisation: 
Sensowave Professional Solutions (MISC International SL)
Funding
Funding agency: 
SmartAgriFood FIWARE accelerator
Grant: 
k€100
Total budget: 
k€141