Monitoring livestock from the rancher's phone
Watching cattle in real time used to mean driving the perimeter. SITCore enables monitoring systems that track health, location, feeding patterns, and environmental conditions — and put alerts on the rancher's phone the moment something needs attention.
What the application does
A livestock monitoring deployment typically tracks:
- Activity and location across pastures — where the herd is, whether animals are moving normally, whether anyone is separated from the group.
- Body or environmental temperature as an early indicator of illness or heat stress.
- Drinking and feeding — refill levels in water containers, feeder uptake.
- Environmental conditions — pasture temperature, humidity, weather events.
When something looks off, the system sends an alert — text message, email, or voice call — straight to the rancher.
Why TinyCLR
The rancher's day is full enough already. The monitoring system has to:
- Run reliably for years, unattended, in an outbuilding or up a pole — that's industrial-grade hardware and a stable runtime.
- Talk over whatever's available — cellular, satellite, WiFi, mesh — without needing a fixed bearer.
- Stay secure, because nobody wants their farm's data feed picked up by a neighbor or a competitor.
- Update over the air so the rancher doesn't have to bring devices down and reflash them every time the system grows a new feature.
SITCore ships with all of that as platform features, not aftermarket add-ons.
Where this fits
Cattle, dairy operations, sheep and goat ranches, pig farms, horse stables, large-animal veterinary clinics, agricultural research stations — anywhere live animals need watching at a scale where walking the perimeter doesn't scale.
Building something similar?
Two ways forward — read about the TinyCLR platform, or talk to us about your project.