About the Project
- Area monitored: 1,200 hectares
- Animals tracked: 120 cows and 500 sheep
- Technology: GPS trackers + health sensors + centralized livestock tracking software
A major agricultural enterprise managing over 600 heads of cattle and sheep across 1,200 hectares of open pasture sought a way to modernize its herd management. Using digital tools, the company aimed to reduce animal loss, improve operational efficiency, and gain better control over the animals’ health and movement patterns.
The Problem
- Animal loss and theft: Frequent cases of livestock straying beyond boundaries or being stolen without immediate detection.
- Delayed health issue detection: There is no way to proactively monitor animal behavior or identify illness before symptoms become visible.
- Inefficient pasture use: Limited data made it challenging to plan effective rotational grazing strategies and allocate resources.
- Labor-intensive monitoring: Workers spent excessive time locating and counting animals in the field.
- No centralized records: Absence of movement history or individual health tracking for herd management.
Navigine Livestock Monitoring Solution
Navigine implemented an advanced RTLS-based GPS livestock tracking system integrating IoT, satellite tracking, and real-time analytics.
Components of Navigine Livestock Monitoring System
- Wearable GPS Trackers - Rugged, weather-resistant collars with built-in GNSS (GPS/GLONASS) receivers and LP-WAN connectivity.
- Livestock Health Monitoring - Sensors Devices included embedded accelerometers and temperature sensors to monitor animal activity and vital signs.
- Navigine Platform Software - A centralized dashboard for real-time visualization, historical data tracking, alert management, and reporting.
Using Navigine’s cattle tracking system, farm managers can monitor livestock movement on an interactive map in real time. The system provides insights into pasture load, generates heatmaps of animal movement, and offers multiple visualization modes — from individual animal paths to zone-specific visit statistics.
Customizable reports deliver comprehensive analytics of pasture usage, animal locations, and health status. Reports can be viewed in the platform interface and delivered via email or messaging bot, ensuring timely and convenient access to operational data.
Smart Functionality
- Real-time location tracking of each animal on a digital pasture map
- Automated alerts for geofence breaches, immobilization, or abnormal activity
- Historical movement records to identify behavioral patterns and grazing efficiency
- Veterinary alerts based on signs of distress, lameness, or post-calving complications
- Integration with corporate systems and flexible mobile access
Impact and Results
- 65% reduction in animal loss due to proactive alerts and real-time tracking
- 25% improvement in animal health: reduced disease incidence thanks to early detection
- Up to 40% cut in manual inspection time, allowing staff to focus on value-added tasks
- 50% of illnesses are detected before visible symptoms, improving recovery rates and reducing treatment costs
Future Expansion
The client plans to scale the system to other farm sites and incorporate advanced biometric sensors to track heart rate and stress levels. This will allow full integration with veterinary systems and enable predictive health analytics for herd optimization.
Ready to digitize your livestock operations?
Navigine’s real-time tracking solution helps farms reduce losses, improve animal welfare, and cut operational costs. Whether you manage cattle, sheep, or mixed herds, our system brings transparency and efficiency to every hectare. Contact us today to explore how RTLS can transform your pasture management.
