The barn that improves itself
A sick animal moves differently. Walk through the flock and switch on the digital barn.
You are the farmer. Walk through the barn with your mouse.Tap anywhere in the barn.
Click in the barn to hang up a Kestrel.
In the drawing you walk through a flock of hens. Switch on the digital barn and you see what the barn sees: for each hen what she is doing, such as eating, foraging or dust bathing, and roughly how much she weighs. A hen that stays put while the rest move aside gets a frame saying "Sick?".
The digital barn is a copy of your barn that runs alongside it all day. It runs on a computer on your own farm and also sees what happens between two rounds.
This is Kestrel
Kestrel is the camera sensor of the digital barn. It hangs from the roof truss above the aisle and looks down over the flock. All the Kestrels in your barns connect to one computer in your technical room.
The light on the corner shows that it is working. The housing is 3D-printed and the cable goes in at the bottom.
Roughly four per fifteen metres
They send their images over an ordinary network cable to one computer in your technical room. It does the computing for all your barns, on site.
First we come by to survey your barn. Then you hang them up yourself, or have one of our installers do it.
network cable to the computer
in the technical room
Click in the barn to scatter feed.
The flock as a flow
A sick animal moves differently. On your round you sometimes sense it before you can point to it.
The digital barn looks at the flock as a whole, like water that flows. Walk through the barn and the flock moves aside. The hen that stays put stands out. Meanwhile the camera estimates the weight of every hen.
The camera looks down on the flock from above. Hens that move aside are in motion. The hen that stays put is marked red as possibly sick.
Three choices underneath
Your data stays on your farm
Images and calculations stay encrypted on the computer on your farm. No image goes to a cloud. The models do learn from all farms together, without any raw data leaving your farm.
Repairable
Standard parts and a 3D-printed housing with public drawings. You order a broken part separately or print a new one. The hardware lasts fifteen years.
You are not tied to anything
Your barn and your climate computer stay as they are. The manuals are open, so your own installer can mount and maintain everything.
The layers build on each other
Each layer needs the layer below it.
Substantiating emissions per barn without knowing how the flock behaves turns target-based regulation into an enforcement tool instead of an innovation tool.
Once you know how your barn behaves, you can manage the manure barn by barn.
All about emission reductionA suspicion based on behaviour only counts once a hard result confirms it. Every result makes the model better.
All about the on-farm testWithout measuring in the barn itself there is nothing to build on.
Which layer matters most to you?
That differs per farm. As a member you work it out together with us.
A barn is the toughest test
Dust, ammonia, moisture and thousands of animals that look alike. What works there also works on a building site or in a port.
Do you work in another sector and see a use for it? Get in touch.