Every cow counts. Every move matters. HerdFlow watches the passage between the barn and the parlour and keeps a per-pen head count current — the input LyingLogix divides lying time by and NutriTrack divides feed by, and the number most barns still take by hand.
This page describes a product under development. Features and specifications are subject to change at release.
Twice a day the herd walks out to the milking area and walks back. The questions are the same in every barn — and in most of them they are still answered with a clicker and a clipboard.
Cows moving out to the parlour, counted at the passage as they pass it — not reconstructed afterwards from memory or from a gate tally.
The return trip, per group. The count at the end of a shift becomes something you read on a screen rather than something somebody has to stand and check.
Group totals reconciled against what the cameras saw, while the shift is still running — which is the only moment a difference can still be acted on.
HerdFlow is being built to count, compare and report. It does not move a fan or open a gate: it keeps the per-pen count that LyingLogix divides lying time by and NutriTrack divides feed by, and gives the people who do know the herd a number to work from.
Fewer manual tallies at the gate, at shift change and at the end of the day. The hours those counts take go back to looking after animals.
Departures and returns per group, day on day, so the rhythm of the herd becomes a record you can compare instead of an impression you carry around.
A group that does not reconcile is flagged during the shift rather than found at the next check — and an early flag is usually a cow in the wrong pen, not a lost one.
HerdFlow is a layer rather than a new cabinet: a camera looking down at the passage, and the counter box that runs the models on site. Both report through the controller that is already in the barn.
The edge enclosure that turns a camera stream into a count. Inference happens at the passage rather than in a data centre, so a dropped connection does not lose the count. Its form factor is still being confirmed.
The 4 MP turret that looks down at the passage: one cable, H.265, NDAA. The same camera line covers the lying area and the feed alley, so a barn does not need a second camera system to be counted.
The uplink that puts the barn on the farm network. Multi-WAN and gigabit, on a DIN rail, so the platform can reach the controller and keep reaching it when one WAN drops. Without it the system still runs locally — it just stops being remote.
Ten ports in an industrial housing, eight of them PoE: the aggregation point for a camera run that outgrows the controller's own ports, with the power for the cameras on the same cable.
HerdFlow is in development. The counting models are being trained on real passages — the gap between the barn and the parlour, the swing gate, the return lane — because that is where a count either holds up or quietly drifts.
What comes first is the count and the reconciliation. Group-level reporting, the shift handover view and the platform integration follow. Nothing on this page is a release date, and the feature list will change as the field work does.
Tell us how you count today — clicker, gate counter, or not at all — and what a gap between the barn and the parlour usually means in your herd. That is the brief HerdFlow is being built against.
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