Amazing stuff!
"... a high-tech collar that each of ... 700 cows wears around its neck — fitted with movement sensors and Wi-Fi — he learned the cow’s diagnosis at 5:30 a.m. when his computer pinged with an alert about its biometric data…
The devices are part of an industry known as precision farming, a data-driven approach for optimizing production that is booming with the addition of A.I. and other technologies. Last year, the livestock-monitoring industry alone was valued at more than $5 billion, according to Grand View Research, a market research firm. ...
has used the collars since they debuted in 2013, back when the devices were no more advanced than a pedometer. But in recent years, Merck, the health care company that makes the collars, has added new kinds of sensors and software to the wearables and artificial intelligence to help process the data."
Forget Cowbells. Cows Wear High-Tech Collars Now. "The wearables help dairy farmers gather more data so their animals are happier and produce more milk."
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