For too long, cattle farming has been fraught with challenges—from maintaining animal health, to optimizing resource usage and ensuring profitability. As the world's population continues to grow at an alarming rate, the demand for dairy and cattle products is rising exponentially. Farmers and producers need to scale their production responsibly, but labor shortages and lack of automation make it even more challenging. In addition, the industry has been called out on animal welfare, and farmers are looking for quick, trustworthy, and innovative solutions to always ensure animal health and well-being.
Traditionally, farmers have relied on human watchers to monitor their cattle. However, this practice can be both tedious and error prone. Human watchers are often expensive and unreliable, prone to making mistakes, easily fatigued, and neglect their duties. This can lead to inaccurate reporting and delayed action, which can negatively impact the health and productivity of the animals.
In such a challenging scenario, how can cattle farming become more efficient, foster animal health and well-being, optimize operations, drive productivity, and enhance environmental sustainability?
Computer Vision technology involves using cameras and advanced AI algorithms to analyze and interpret visual data. This technology can be used to monitor and analyze animal behavior, identify potential health issues, and predict future outcomes. Farm owners can now monitor all human and animal interactions across all aspects of the dairy operations (feeding, milking, birthing, and everyday veterinary procedures) to ensure animal welfare.
Another advantage of Computer Vision technology is the real-time insights available to farmers that help identify patterns and trends in the behavior of their animals such as lameness or poor feeding habits, including human-animal interaction, animal-to-animal behavior, and more. This helps in making informed decisions, such as adjusting feed schedules or administering medication.
By implementing Computer Vision technology in animal farming, farmers can improve operational efficiency, cut costs, and enhance growth and profitability.
For several years, Daitrix has been helping leading farms and agriculture companies harness the power of advanced AI and Computer Vision to ensure animal health and well-being while bringing costs down. Leveraging our immense experience and demonstrated track record, our next-gen, data-driven Computer Vision-powered solution for animal welfare helps in reducing cattle monitoring costs by 50%.
Now, that’s what we call Consequential AI!
The solution can watch 30+ cameras 24 hours a day, seven days a week in real time and never miss a frame as compared to human video watchers who are prone to ignore video footages or miss events that are hard to spot by human eyes. This also means significant cost reduction for farm owners. Currently, a dairy farm needs to employ a full-time human resource to watch the videos on each dairy site, while a manager reviews the reports created by the human watchers and reports the aggregate to the dairy owner. With Daitrix’s Computer Vision-powered solution, the farm owner can now receive near real-time incident reporting without labor costs. In addition, the solution helps in keeping cows and employees safe by detecting any protocol drift that could lead to any potential animal abuse in future. As a result, through critical in-time insights, farm owners can now address and correct issues advance before they become a problem. The solution transforms animal welfare with:
There’s no doubt that Computer Vision technology is revolutionizing the way farmers manage their cattle. With rising demands in poultry and dairy products consumption, there’s an urgent need to increase production, yet also ensure significant improvements in animal welfare, better coverage, and accuracy of animal monitoring, reduce costs, and meet the demands of a changing market. Daitrix’s Computer Vision solution enables farm owners to derive maximum value out of their video feeds and associated farm data to foster the highest level of animal welfare and safety across the entire operation. Equipped with such a cutting-edge tool, farmers can now create a brighter and sustainable future for themselves, their animals, and the industry as a whole.
Get in touch with us to know how our Computer Vision-powered solution can shepherd your cattle farming to greater heights with the power of data, AI, and pre-built, containerized ML solutions.
