Indonesia is having a dire problem in terms of beef production: the local beef production is less than 60% of the needs. This is in juxtaposition with Indonesia’s relatively high position in FAO’s World Cattle Inventory ranking, with more than 16,5 million cattle that produce more than 500 tons of beef a year.
Despite this, the government of Indonesia maintains an optimistic outlook. President Joko Widodo is aiming for Indonesia to be self-sufficient in beef in the next nine to 10 years, saying that all preparations needed to achieve that is “on the right track”. The government pushes for an increase in the cattle population.
With the increase in the number of cattle, a problem then arises: how does a cattle farmer manage a spike in livestock numbers with only a pair of hands? This is just one among many other problems that cattle farmers face.
And this is where technology comes into place. Specifically, a technology called PLF, or Precision Livestock Farming, a continuous, automated real-time monitoring of cattle production and reproduction, health and welfare, as well as environmental impact.
Introducing SMARTernak by DycodeX, a contribution to Indonesian government’s beef self-sufficiency program. SMARTernak is the smartest PLF solution to revolutionize Indonesia’s cattle-farming industry. It cuts the hassle out of cattle farmers' lives by using an IoT-based system to make cattle farmers’ lives easier and livestock healthier and more productive.
SMARTernak has two variants that cattle farmers can pick according to the needs of their farms: SMARTernak Tracking and SMARTernak Health & Productivity. SMARTernak Tracking is optimized to accurately and periodically track cattle location and monitor their movement around the farm. SMARTernak Health & Productivity is optimized towards monitoring cattle health and general well-being as well as the environmental condition around the cattle.
Additional features for both SMARTernak Tracking and SMARTernak Health & Productivity include an anti-theft system; that covers a wide range (with LoRa, 2G/3G network, or NB-IoT); cost-effective with low power consumption; compact, unobtrusive design; dashboard via web or smartphone.
SMARTernak only needs to be strapped on once, and it does all the hard work. SMARTernak periodically reads and sends data from the cattle which is then sent to the cloud for data digestion. Cattle farmers can then monitor the readings via the custom-built web and smartphone dashboards.
Ready to revolutionize your cattle farm? We’re very happy to integrate SMARTernak into your existing cattle-farming workflow. Contact us at x@dycode.com for a demo.