Christian Hoekstra's Contact Details

Christian Hoekstra's Company Details

Cattle Care

San Francisco, California, United States • 19 Employees
Information Technology & Services

Systematic failures in keeping of cows and late detection of diseases result in $535K annual losses per dairy farm, where the root causes of problems thereof are:- Lack of cattle monitoring tools- Over-reliance on human expertise- Ineffective legacy analytics- No quality control over farm's personnel.We are going to provide to farmers:- 24/7 video monitoring of the cattle using low-cost commodity hardware- Detection and continuous tracking of behavioural signatures for each cow in a herd using computer vision algorithms.- Early discovery of diseases and behavioural anomalies via comparison of each cow's behavioural signatures vs the herd's statistical norm.- Automatic monitoring of the farm's personnel daily activities to ensure correct execution of prescribed tasks.