Origo Guide
Livestock - Intensive and Extensive
This is a step-by-step buyer’s guide to providing value for your farming system. As this is just an introduction, please get in touch with us at info@origo.ag or call us on 1 800 577 399 to discuss your requirements and get in touch with our Local Industry Partner.
There are two connectivity options: 1) The Origo.ag M1 option, Utilising a Telco IoT network, which includes a SIM data plan for each device: or 2) The Origo.ag DM Option, your own private Origo.ag Digimesh, meshing network. The Origo.ag DM requires an Origo XGW Gateway at a central point with Internet access, for instance, at your farm office. We are also launching a Satellite connectivity option.
All connectivity options can be mixed and matched depending on your requirements.
Water Monitoring, Control and Automation
Prioritise your assets, for instance, water points. Generally, the assets furthest away from central operation points involve more cost than those in the farm yard, but assets that involve heavy workloads or are crucial for your operation should also be evaluated.
Identify your critical objectives and actions you want for these. Examples are:
Flow monitoring of troughs, water pipelines and water sources, e.g. flow in and out (to trough) of the water tank, flow from the solar pump.
Alerts for a mains water leak and the ability to remotely shut off the mains water supply.
Alerts for tank levels, generally leak detection through flow monitoring, provide early detection compared to tank levels.
Automation and remote control of bore pumps. They can be mains power, diesel or solar.
Remote control of valves in water pipeline systems and stop valves in large storage tanks.
Feed Bins
Storage bins can be monitored and automated for aeration, temperature, and moisture. Location, volume, and the planned storage period are essential factors.
Yards, Pens and Buildings - Livestock well-being and growth
Climate monitoring and control may be critical depending on the livestock type.
Outdoor pens and yards can be monitored for sun and shade conditions. Prioritise based on the actions required at climate thresholds.
Existing equipment may be retrofitted with automation (e.g. fans and water spray) or utilisation of monitoring with alerts to provide time to take action.
Water monitoring of water to troughs can be done for every trough or a group of troughs.
Power Monitoring and Remote Control
Provision of power and backup power may be critical to your livestock operation. Automation of switching to generator power is usually integrated into modern generators. However, our systems can monitor and alert for power to enable manual switching.
Pasture Weather Monitoring
Rainfall distribution to monitor pasture growth conditions and regeneration to provide information, e.g. sowing, spraying and pasture fertilisation. Also, see the Grains farming guide.
Temperature, humidity and wind conditions to critical periods, such as after shearing.
Resource monitoring
Resource monitoring, such as scheme water and desalination plants, can be automated and remotely controlled using Origo technology.
