Livestock intelligence, Bethlehem, Free State
Know every animal. Stop the silent losses.
Register the herd on the phone you already have. Record weights, temperatures, feed and treatments in the kraal. Add a LoRa ear tag when you are ready, and hear about a fever or a crossed fence before the morning.
R0
to start. Fifty animals free.
2.5 yr
tag battery, no SIM card
15 km
from one base station
Built for
- Cattle
- Sheep
- Goats
- Pigs
- Chickens
- Horses
- Ostriches
(01) Why it exists
Most losses on a South African farm are quiet. A cow runs a fever for three days before anyone notices. A ram walks through a broken fence at night. A weaner loses weight for a month. HerdSense writes each of these down as it happens, on the phone, and tells you the moment one needs you.
(02) In three stages
Records first. Hardware when you are ready.
Start with nothing but a phone. Add tags to the animals you most want to watch.
- 01Records first
Every animal on your phone, before you buy a single tag.
Register each animal with a photo, breed, sex and age. Record weights, temperatures, feed and treatments in the kraal, one thumb, no signal needed until you get home. Move animals between camps. Mark them sold or deceased. The history is there when a buyer, a vet or the co-op asks.
- Register a batch of 40 weaners in one go
- Withdrawal periods counted for you
- Works on the phone you already have
Stage 01 - 02Add the tag when ready
A LoRa ear tag that reports position, temperature and movement.
No SIM, no airtime. The tag talks to a base station on your farm, which covers up to 15 km, and the battery lasts about two and a half years. The platform matches each fix to the animal by tag id and keeps the trail.
- GPS position every 15 minutes
- Body temperature and activity
- Battery level, so you know before it dies
Stage 02 - 03Alerts that reach your phone
Fever, a fence crossed, a silent tag: you hear about it first.
A cow with a temperature over 39.5 °C, a ram outside its camp at 02:00, a tag that has gone quiet for an hour. Each one becomes an alert with the animal's name and last position. Acknowledge it, snooze it, or send someone.
- Thresholds per species, set by you
- Alerts stay open until you close them
- Everything is written to the animal's timeline
Stage 03
Product / dashboard
(2026)
Zizian
Bethlehem, FS
Good morning, Thabo
Kromdraai, Sunday 13 September
Head count
412
+6 bornOpen alerts
3
1 criticalAvg temp
38.6 °C
normalTags online
118
2 low batteryNandi (ANM-K3PX9M) 40.1 °C, fever
Ram 14 outside Camp 3 since 02:10
Tag 7A2C silent for 6 h
The overview on a Sunday morning: head count, open alerts, the live map and what needs you.
(03) What it does
Seven things a farm needs written down.
Each one works on its own. Together they are the farm's memory.
Animal records
Every animal, its photo, its history, on your phone.
Health and treatments
Temperatures, treatments, withdrawal periods and what is due.
Live tracking
Where every tagged animal is, on a satellite map of your farm.
Camps and groups
Draw your camps on the map. Run the herd in groups.
Alerts
Fever, fence crossed, silent tag, low battery, weight loss.
Reports
A herd health report, an animal certificate, a CSV of everything.
Communities
Households, a Chief who sees everything, an Admin who validates.
(04) For communal areas
Households, an Admin who confirms, a Chief who sees it all.
Farmers register their own animals. The Admin validates each entry. The Chief sees totals, sales and losses per household, and changes nothing.
The Chief
Sees the whole area: how many head each household runs, what was sold, what was lost this year. Changes nothing.
The Admin
Registers households and animals, validates each farmer's entries, manages camps and tags.
The Farmer
Registers their own animals and records against them. Marks an animal sold or deceased, and the Admin confirms it.
Validation is on by default for a community, so nothing counts until an Admin has confirmed it.
(05) Pricing
Free for the first fifty animals. Rand, per month, no contract.
Software and hardware are priced apart. Start on records alone and add tags to the animals you want to watch.
Starter
A single farm keeping records.
Up to 50 animals
- Up to 50 animals
- Every record type
- Camps, groups and tags
- Alerts from manual readings
- One user
Professional
Most farmsA working farm with a team.
Up to 500 animals, then R 0,50 per animal per month
- Up to 500 animals, then R0.50 each
- Everything in Starter
- Smart tags and live map
- Up to ten people with roles
- Reports and certificates
- API key for your own integrations
Enterprise
A community, a co-op or a large operation.
Up to 5 000 animals, then R 0,25 per animal per month
- Up to 5 000 animals, then R0.25 each
- Everything in Professional
- Households and a Chief's view
- Validation workflow
- Unlimited people
- Priority support on WhatsApp
Pay for a year up front and you are charged for 10 months: 2 months free. Starter stays free up to 50 animals for as long as you use it.
Hardware
Once off per unit, plus a small monthly fee per tag that is switched on.
- Smart ear tag
- Once off. GPS, temperature, activity, 2.5 year battery.
- R 1 850
- Smart collar
- Once off. For horses, pigs and larger goats.
- R 2 400
- Base station
- Once off. Covers up to 15 km in open veld.
- R 9 500
- Per active tag
- Per month. Data and connectivity.
- R 25
(06) Questions
What farmers ask us first.
If yours is not here, phone or WhatsApp us. A person answers.
How many animals do you have right now?
If you paused on that, start with the register. Fifty animals free, on the phone in your pocket, today.