This is an illustrative scenario that shows how BigEye™ is designed to work in a dairy barn. It describes no specific customer, and it reports no results.
The problem: many cows, little time to watch each one
Picture a busy dairy barn. Staff have milking, feeding and cleaning to get through, and they also need to spot cows in heat on time and catch the early signs of mastitis, ketosis or lameness before they become bigger problems. Watching every cow closely, every day, is hard, and extra handling adds stress for cows and people.
The approach: non-invasive imaging and AI-driven alerts
BigEye™ uses thermal imaging and AI analytics to capture health data without stress. It generates actionable AI-driven alerts for quick interventions, is configurable for chutes, pens and barns of any size, and integrates into existing farm management software.
What BigEye™ looks for in a dairy herd
- Estrus detection. Infrared thermography helps identify cows in heat.
- Disease detection. Early identification of problems such as mastitis, ketosis and lameness.
- Pregnancy monitoring. Tracks maintenance of pregnancy.
- Welfare monitoring. Identifies injuries and other problems to support herd health.
- Feed efficiency monitoring. Scores potential feed efficiency, to help with cost of production and environmental footprint.
What the barn team sees in this scenario
Instead of trying to watch every cow equally, staff start the day with a short list of alerts: cows that may be in heat, and cows showing possible early signs of a health problem. They go to those cows first, check them, and decide what to do with their herd veterinarian and their usual records. The alerts sit alongside the farm management software they already use.
None of this replaces a good herdsperson. What it changes is where they look first.
Planning checklist
- Decide where in the barn, pens or chute cows pass regularly.
- List the alerts that matter most to your team: heat, mastitis, ketosis, lameness, welfare.
- Check which farm management software the alerts should feed into.
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