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Agritech

Every animal located, beyond mobile coverage.

A private network across the holding lets a collar report where the animal is and what it is doing — with no mast, no SIM and no subscription.

  • DECT NR+
  • MULTI-HOP
  • GNSS
  • EDGE ML
  • COLLAR
  • LOW POWER
Site
Open farmland
Company
HerdHalo
Core
Hardware · Radio · Positioning · Edge

The environment

Agritech / EnvironmentConceptual
Farmland: mesh anchors across field boundaries locating a collar and reporting to a yard gateway.FIELD / MESH / GNSSA01A02A03WATERCOW_214PARCEL 07 / GRAZINGGATEWAY
The site

Why this environment is hard.

A working farm is a radio environment nobody designed. Stone barns, wet hedgerows, folded ground, long distances and a mains supply that stops at the yard. Mobile coverage was planned around roads and villages, not the far side of the hill.

  • Coverage

    Terrain and weather decide the link, not a tariff. A parcel that carries all summer can drop out once the ground is wet and the stock have moved into the bottom of the valley.

  • Power

    Anything on an animal or a gate runs from a cell or a small panel. The duty cycle sets what the product can do, not the processor.

  • Distance

    Holdings run to kilometres, and no single base station sees the whole of one. A topology that needs every device within earshot of one mast will not survive its first winter.

  • Handling

    Hardware gets kicked, rubbed on posts, jet-washed and frozen. Ingress protection and mechanical design are radio decisions too — the enclosure is part of the antenna.

The platform here

The same three questions, answered on this site.

Where is it, what is it doing, how does the data get back. The modules that answer them are built once and shared. The site decides what each one has to do.

Agritech / Question → core module

  1. Where is the herd?

    Which parcel, which gate, which end of the valley.

    Positioning engine

    Anchors on posts and buildings are the reference geometry. A collar ranges against them and resolves to a parcel, a gate or a trough without running GNSS all day, and reports the fix with a confidence figure.

  2. What is each animal doing?

    Grazing, ruminating, calving — or still for too long.

    Sensing & edge ML

    The collar classifies grazing, ruminating, calving and still-for-too-long on the device, from its inertial sensor. The network carries the event — one animal, one state, one time — not the accelerometer trace.

  3. How does data get off the hill?

    Hop by hop, over ground the farm owns. No mast, no subscription.

    Private DECT NR+ radio

    Collars talk to the nearest anchor, anchors relay hop by hop along the tracks and watercourses stock actually use, and the yard gateway holds events through a dropped uplink. The spectrum is licence-free, so coverage is a property of the holding, not a subscription.

Care3 core platformBuilt once · shared by HerdHalo · Intoku · ARC3
Hardware

The same building blocks, on this site.

One hardware family serves all three verticals. What changes is the role each object takes and the conditions it has to survive.

Sensor board: two-layer outline with copper pour, edge connector, microcontroller, shielded radio section, printed antenna inside a keep-out, passives and a castellated bottom edge.RFCARE3 · REV ARF SECTIONKEEP-OUTCASTELLATIONS

Collar electronics

Inertial sensor, ranging radio and a duty-cycled power budget on one board, designed for the neck of an animal rather than a bench.

  • PCB DESIGN
  • KEEP-OUT
  • CASTELLATED
Rugged field anchor: sealed enclosure with a lid seam and slotted fixings, whip antenna on an SMA bulkhead, cable gland on the right face, U-bolt bracket on a pole.CARE3ANCHORSMACABLE GLANDPOLE BRACKET

Mesh anchor

Solar or mains on a post. Extends the network along the routes stock use, and is the fixed reference the positioning engine ranges against.

  • SEALED
  • WHIP ANTENNA
  • MULTI-HOP
Edge gateway: extruded enclosure with a finned heatsink top, a row of network ports, power inlet and card slot, three status indicators and wall-mount flanges. Two whip antennas on SMA bulkheads.CARE3 · GATEWAYHEATSINKPORT ROWSTATUS

Yard gateway

Sits where power and backhaul exist. Terminates the mesh, solves positions and holds the day's events through an outage.

  • STORE & FORWARD
  • POSITION SOLVER
  • SECURE UPLINK
In practice

What the system does here.

  1. Own the network

    Coverage is a property of the holding. Anchors along the tracks stock use extend it, and no part of the system depends on a carrier, a mast or a monthly bill.

  2. Locate before you transmit

    Which parcel an animal is in is worth more than a stream of raw sensor values, and costs a fraction of the airtime. The fix is the product; the trace stays on the device.

  3. Decide at the edge

    Behaviour classification runs on the collar. The network carries events and positions, not waveforms — which is what makes a battery budget possible on an animal.

Go-to-market company

HerdHalo takes this to market.

A private farm-wide sensor and positioning network designed to connect livestock, infrastructure and environmental sensors across rural environments.

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HerdHalo / Mesh ringConceptual
HerdHalo: a ring of mesh anchors over folded ground, resolving one collar to a parcel.M01M02M03M04M05M06COW_214PARCEL 07 / GRAZING
HerdHalo is built to answer:

  • How far can a multi-hop network usefully reach across folded ground?

  • What is the smallest position fix that still changes a farming decision?

  • How long can a collar run before somebody has to catch the animal again?

  • PRIVATE NETWORK
  • DECT NR+
  • MULTI-HOP
  • POSITIONING
  • LOW POWER
  • EDGE

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