Cattle & Dairy

The IoT platform built for parlours, pastures, and herds.

Milk yield swings with barn heat stress. Mastitis shows up in in-line conductivity before the herdsman sees it. OmnIoT brings parlour telemetry, activity tags, barn climate, and feed monitoring into one cloud and one branded mobile app for your herd team.

Who this is for

Three kinds of cattle operators.

Dairy, beef, and integrator operations share the same platform. Sensor mix and integration depth differ.

Dairy farms and milking operations

You run a milking herd. Parlour performance, cow health, reproduction, and feed efficiency drive your margin. You need per-cow records, automated alerts on mastitis indicators and estrus, and parlour telemetry that tells you why yields are off.

Beef and feedlot operations

You run beef cattle at scale on pasture or in a feedlot. You need water trough monitoring, feed bin levels, weight tracking, and the ability to manage thousands of head without walking every pen every day.

Livestock equipment OEMs and integrators

You sell milking equipment, feeders, activity tags, or barn climate systems and your customers are asking for connectivity. You need a branded IoT layer under your own name without building the firmware, cloud, and mobile stack from scratch.

Sensors

Any sensor, one controller, one platform.

Modular hardware. Any sensor with RS485, analog, or I2C output plugs in. Parlour equipment and tags integrate through vendor APIs or dedicated gateways.

Barn climate

Temperature, humidity, THI (temperature-humidity index) for heat stress. Multi-point across barn zones. Critical for milk yield and fertility.

Water trough and bin levels

Ultrasonic level sensors on water troughs, feed bins, silage silos. Consumption trending, low-level alerts, automatic reorder triggers.

Milk parlour telemetry

Flow meters, milk temperature, in-line conductivity (mastitis indicator), pulsation pressure, vacuum stability. Per-cow records when integrated with tag readers.

Activity and rumination tags

Integration with common cow-mounted activity tags via vendor APIs or RS485 gateways. Estrus detection, rumination alerts, health events surface in the same dashboard as the rest of the farm.

Weight and scale

Walk-over weighing systems, group scales, feed ration load cells. Growth tracking, feed conversion, market readiness.

Parlour and feeder control

Digital outputs drive feed augers, auto-ID gates, parlour backing gates, ventilation fans. Closed-loop feed delivery based on per-cow records.

Workflows

What your herdsmen and managers actually do.

Sensor data is the input. Workflows are what makes it useful. OmniCloud ships with the workflows cattle and dairy operations need on day one.

Per-cow records

Every milking event tagged with cow ID. Yield, conductivity, flow curve. Herd dashboard and per-cow detail view.

Health and estrus alerts

Rumination drops, activity spikes, conductivity changes push to mobile. Flag cows for observation before symptoms are visible in the parlour.

Barn-level climate

Heat stress index alerts, ventilation control, sprinkler triggers. Year-round optimization against breed thresholds.

Mobile app for herdsmen

Branded iOS and Android app for herd managers, technicians, and vets. Per-cow lookup by tag, quick-tap health notes, photo-attached observations, GPS for pasture crews.

Feed and inventory

Silo and bin levels feed into automatic reorder triggers. Feed cost allocation per group. Ration logs for compliance.

Reports for milk processor and vet

CSV and PDF exports for milk quality reporting, veterinary records, breed association requirements, subsidy audits.

Why OmnIoT

Full-stack IoT your herd team can actually use.

OmnIoT delivers every layer a cattle or dairy operation needs as one thing: industrial hardware in the barn, cellular firmware, a multi-tenant cloud, and branded mobile apps. Parlour and tag integrations are part of the engagement. Your herdsmen get a single mobile app under your brand. Your managers get per-site dashboards. Your veterinarians get records they can pull on demand.

For the cost and timeline math behind choosing a full-stack platform over building infrastructure yourself, read the real cost of building on AWS IoT Core.

FAQ

Cattle and dairy-specific questions.

What cattle and dairy sensors does OmnIoT integrate with?

Any sensor with RS485 Modbus RTU, analog 0-10V or 4-20mA, or I2C output plugs into our controllers directly. For parlour equipment and activity tags we integrate via vendor APIs or dedicated gateways. Common integrations include barn climate, water/feed level, milk flow and conductivity, walk-over scales, and cow-mounted activity tags. Custom integrations are possible in an ODM engagement.

Does OmnIoT replace my existing parlour management software?

It does not have to. Major parlour systems (DeLaval, GEA, Lely, BouMatic) have their own software. We can sit alongside those systems, reading flow and conductivity data via standard interfaces and providing the cloud layer, mobile app, and multi-site dashboard. Full replacement is possible in a greenfield or ODM engagement but rarely recommended when an investment already exists.

Is the platform production-grade?

Yes. OmniCloud runs in production across agriculture and aquaculture today. The hardware is industrial-grade, the firmware is hardened across thousands of deployments, and the multi-tenant cloud scales across customers, sites, and end-user tenants.

Does the platform work with activity tags from Cowmanager, Afimilk, Nedap, or similar?

We have reference integrations with a few common systems via vendor APIs. Every activity tag vendor has its own integration path; some are clean REST APIs, others require on-premise gateways. Expect 1 to 3 weeks of integration work per new tag vendor in an ODM engagement.

What kind of connectivity do farms need?

Cellular (4G LTE Cat-M1/NB-IoT) is the default because farm sites often have marginal or no WiFi past the farmhouse. WiFi and Ethernet work where available. Controllers buffer data through short outages. For very remote farms with no cellular, LoRa or sub-GHz extensions are possible in an ODM engagement.

How quickly can a dairy pilot run?

Typical pilots run 10 to 14 weeks from kickoff to devices in the barn, slightly longer than simpler verticals because parlour integration adds complexity. First pilot is typically one parlour and adjacent barn before scaling.

What does a typical dairy engagement cost?

Quoted per scope. Pilot tier starts in the low to mid five figures USD depending on parlour integration depth. Production scales to per-cow or per-parlour hardware costs plus a per-user or per-site SaaS fee. We do not publish fixed prices; herd size, parlour vendor, and automation depth all matter.

Does the platform support Hebrew, Arabic, or other languages?

Yes. Cloud UI and mobile apps support multiple languages including RTL (Hebrew, Arabic). Additional languages can be added in an ODM engagement.

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Tell us about your herd.

Every engagement starts with a 30-minute call. No deck, no pitch. Just your farm, your parlour, your animals, and what is blocking you from the monitoring you want.

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