Cattle Ear Tag Sensor
Detect BRD
Before
It Costs You
Continuous heart rate and respiratory monitoring — the earliest physiological signals of Bovine Respiratory Disease. Catch it before it's visible. Treat it before it's expensive.
For Pen Riders
One Rider.
Thousands of Cattle.
Every Single Day.
Pen riders carry one of the most demanding responsibilities in agriculture. Every morning they move through pens holding hundreds of head, scanning each animal for the subtle signals of illness: the droopy ear, the tucked back, the animal standing off by itself at the bunk. It is skilled, physical, relentless work, and the feedlot runs because of it.
But BRD doesn't start visually. It starts physiologically — elevated heart rate, early respiratory distress — days before an animal shows the signs a rider can spot from horseback. That gap isn't a failure of observation. It's a biological reality.
Seismi doesn't replace the pen rider. It gives them a new sense. The ear sensor captures physiological data from every tagged animal, and the Pen Rider app turns that data into a ranked attention list each morning — so the rider walks into the pen already knowing which animals to look at first. The judgment call is still theirs, backed by new data.
What Seismi Adds to the Pen Rider's Toolkit
- Physiological signals 24–48 hours before visible symptoms — the window that matters most
- A ranked pull list each morning, so the most at-risk animals get attention first
- Objective data to back up the rider's instinct when making the pull call
- Post-treatment monitoring flags animals whose recovery stalls — catching retreatments before they become chronic cases
- A record of every pull decision and outcome, building a smarter system over time
Workflow
Four Steps.
Zero Workflow Changes.
Tag at Intake
The lightweight, maintenance-free sensor attaches to the existing cattle ear tag during standard chute processing — one additional step, no new equipment. Sensor ID is scanned and associated with the animal's visual tag and EID before it leaves the chute.
Passive Collection
Fixed readers at feed bunks and water tanks collect vitals as cattle go about their routine. No manual scanning. A behavioral baseline builds automatically over the first 48–72 hours.
Cloud Analytics
Raw physiological signals are processed in the cloud, converting heart rate and respiratory rate patterns into individual animal health scores and cohort trends.
Prioritized Alerts
Pen Rider delivers a ranked pull list each morning — not blanket alarms. Each alert includes animal ID, severity, deviation details, and time since onset. Thresholds are calibrated with your consulting veterinarian. If a treated animal's recovery stalls, the app generates a follow-up alert before the situation deteriorates further.
Software
The App Built
for Pen Riders
Every morning, Pen Rider delivers a ranked pull list sorted by physiological health score. Once pulled, use the app to record visual check, temperature results, and log the treatment — product, dosage, route, and lot number — before the animal moves to the recovery pen.
Seismi keeps monitoring through recovery. If the animal's trajectory stalls, the app generates a follow-up alert for re-evaluation. Every pull decision and outcome is logged, building a complete treatment record per animal.
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Core Capabilities
What the System Measures
Heart Rate Monitoring
Continuous cardiopulmonary tracking from each tagged animal. Deviations from baseline signal early-stage BRD onset — often 24–48 hours before visible symptoms appear.
Respiratory Rate Monitoring
Real-time respiration tracking to identify respiratory distress. Elevated respiratory rate is one of the earliest and most reliable indicators of BRD before clinical signs manifest.
BRD Early-Warning Alerts
When an animal deviates from its established baseline — reduced movement, altered feeding or drinking patterns, isolation from the herd — an alert is generated 24–48 hours before visible clinical signs. Thresholds are calibrated with your veterinarian to fit your pull protocols.
Herd-Level Analytics
Pen and cohort trends for feedlot managers and consulting veterinarians. Track treatment outcomes, retreatment rates, and mortality over time — and show the ROI of early detection.
Under the Hood
The Sensor Is the First Layer
Every reading the Cattle Sensor captures feeds a growing proprietary dataset of animal health — the foundation for AI models that will predict BRD days before physiological signals are visible, and eventually produce a digital twin of each animal tracked across its entire life.
Antimicrobial Stewardship
Earlier Detection.
Smarter Treatment.
Earlier identification of BRD-at-risk cattle enables more targeted, timely treatment — reducing the need for broad-spectrum metaphylaxis. Seismi supports the industry's shift toward responsible antimicrobial stewardship by giving veterinarians objective physiological data to guide treatment decisions.
When you know which animal is at risk and when the risk began, you treat with precision. Not prophylactically across the pen.
Ready to See It
in Action?
Schedule a 30-minute call to see the Seismi Cattle Sensor and Pen Rider app demonstrated on real feedlot data. Bring your consulting vet.