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Aiherd, smart livestock monitoring

AI keeps an eye on your herd. Credit : AiHerd

With AiHerd, intensive and semi-intensive dairy and cattle farms can now automatically detect pathologies like mastitis or lameness and behaviors of interest such as heat or imminent calving. This unique technology, the only one of its kind worldwide, improves animal welfare, is practical and convenient for farmers, and can increase productivity by up to several hundred euros per head per year, depending on the size and type of farm.​​

AiHerd is powered by an AI-enabled computer vision technology that keeps a constant watch over individual and herd activity, tracking things like feeding and resting, distances covered, and movements characteristic of certain states. The AI automatically picks up the unique signatures of important events like heat, imminent calving, or the onset of disease. AiHerd’s correct identification rate is superior to that of competing solutions.

This automated decision-assistance solution lightens the farmer’s workload, supports animal welfare, and boosts productivity. AiHerd is fully configurable for each farm’s unique layout and organization. Users can block off restricted areas, create groups of cattle, and configure rules and alerts, all via a very simple interface.

AiHerd was founded by a veterinarian specializing in herd health. He turned to the CEA and Thales to help develop the high-performance, AI-enabled video surveillance technology that makes AiHerd possible. The company currently has an R&D contract with the CEA.​

Key figures

30%

Increase in productivity per head per year

2020

Year founded

Key market

  • Dairy farms
  • Suckler farms

Technologies used

  • Artificial-intelligence-enabled computer vision
  • Data analytics

 

Website : https://www.aiherd.io/