Implantable herd biotelemetry · Beef + Dairy System online — monitoring the herd

We see it
before it shows

[ SORTA ], noun
  1. A subcutaneous sensing layer that reads the health of every animal in a herd — continuously, individually, from beneath the skin.
  2. The line between a problem caught early, cheap, and survivable — and one caught too late.

Most herd losses don't begin with a symptom. They begin days earlier — in a quiet drop in rumination, a half-degree of fever, a gait that's a little off, a cow that won't settle. The eye catches it last.

SORTA puts a battery-free microchip under the skin and a powered ear tag over the air, so the herd reports itself — from the whole operation down to one animal, online or off — long before anything is visible at the rail.

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The system — three parts, one loop

An end-to-end framework,
from under the skin to your screen

A minimally invasive sensor, a herd-management platform, and an on-farm beacon — together they turn multimodal health data into decisions you can act on the same morning you get them.

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Sensor
01 / SUBCUTANEOUS SENSOR

A battery-free chip,
placed in routine work

The sensor microchip is inserted just under the skin of the ear during work you already do — vaccination, a checkup, a growth-pellet implant. It is minimally invasive and built to United States agricultural regulations.

  • No batteries. No recharging. Nothing to service in the field.
  • A paired ear tag powers the chip and carries its signal.
  • Long-range telemetry — several kilometers of open ground.
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Platform
02 / HERD PLATFORM

Raw signal,
turned into decisions

Herd-management software for web and mobile turns continuous, multimodal data into plain-language insight — per animal and across the whole herd. Alerts you can act on, history you can trust.

  • One view, herd-wide — drill down to a single cow.
  • Integrates with common dairy-record systems.
  • Hooks into sorting gates to act on what it finds.
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Beacon
03 / ON-FARM BEACON

The spine of
the network

A central beacon on the property gathers every animal's data as it comes in. It is the backbone that lets you watch the whole herd and still drill to a single cow — and it keeps working when the internet doesn't.

  • Whole-herd to individual — one source of truth.
  • Functions with no internet connection at all.
  • Holds and retains data through outages, then syncs.
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We don't wait for symptoms.
We read the signals the eye can't.

Respiratory distress. Udder inflammation. Ketosis. Lameness. SORTA is built to flag the first physiological signs — shifts in temperature, rumination, feeding, and movement — and surface them as plain-language alerts, roughly forty percent faster than the current standard a person watching the pen can manage.

Caught that early, most problems are cheaper, smaller, and survivable. Less treatment, fewer losses, healthier production — and an estimated profit increase of up to fifteen percent across the herd through reduced losses and treatment costs.

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F.01~40%Faster disease detection than the current standardREPORTED
F.02KM·sTelemetry range — several kilometers of open groundREPORTED
F.03↑15%Estimated profit lift from reduced losses & treatmentESTIMATED
F.040Batteries to charge — the chip is powered by the tagBY DESIGN
Connectivity & power

Always on. Even off the grid.

The chip never needs charging — the ear tag powers it and pushes data across several kilometers of open ground. The on-farm beacon holds the line when the internet doesn't: SORTA keeps watching, recording, and alerting whether or not you have a single bar of signal.

Range that covers the back forty. Power that outlasts the animal's season. Coverage that doesn't quit at the property edge, the tree line, or the weak spot in the cell map.

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Not a collar.
Not a tag. Not a bolus.

Collars read one signal from the surface and slip with the season. Visual ear tags only ever tell you which animal — never how it's doing. Boluses sit in the gut and go quiet. Each of them watches from the outside, or from the wrong place.

SORTA reads from under the skin, where the physiology actually is, and pairs that with powered long-range telemetry and a herd-wide beacon. It isn't another wearable bolted onto the animal — it's a sensing layer built into it.

One chip. The whole herd.
Any operation, any size.

Beef or dairy. A hundred head or ten thousand. Fenced range or open pasture. SORTA scales to the operation and reads from whole-herd down to the individual animal — and speaks to the dairy-record systems and sorting gates you already run, on the web and on the phone in your pocket.

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What it does — the full picture

Disease detection

  • Respiratory distress — pre-symptomatic
  • Udder inflammation / mastitis
  • Ketosis — metabolic shift
  • Lameness — gait & standing time
  • Fever before it's visible
  • Core-temperature trends
  • Behavioral change as an early signal
  • ~40% faster than the current standard

Reproduction & behavior

  • Heat / estrus detection
  • Optimal breeding-window timing
  • Improved pregnancy rates
  • More accurate heat detection
  • Rumination tracking
  • Chewing & cud activity
  • Feeding patterns
  • Movement, rest & restlessness

Location & safety

  • Real-time herd location
  • Pasture management
  • Geofenced boundaries
  • Off-area & stray alerts
  • Escape & boundary breach warnings
  • Historical movement data
  • Outbreak tracing
  • Root-cause review

Platform & fit

  • Web dashboard
  • Mobile app
  • Whole-herd to individual
  • Dairy-record integration
  • Sorting-gate hooks
  • Works offline
  • No battery · no recharge
  • U.S. ag-regulation compliant
  • Beef + dairy · any herd size
  • Pilot program open now

Event stream

A representative view of what SORTA surfaces across a working day — the alerts, windows, and patterns the platform raises, from a quiet rumination dip to a geofence breach. Illustrative output, not a record of any single farm.

Representative output · Beacon-synced
Representative SORTA event stream across a working day
TimeEventDetail
04:02Rumination dropTag 0473 — rumination down 19% over 14h; early ketosis watch opened automatically.
04:48Fever, pre-symptomaticTag 1182 — core temperature up 0.7°C, ~36h ahead of visible signs; respiratory watch raised.
05:31Estrus detectedTag 0915 — activity + temperature pattern indicate heat; optimal breeding window opens ~06:30.
06:10Lameness suspectedTag 0204 — gait asymmetry and reduced standing time; hoof check advised before turnout.
06:54Udder inflammationTag 1370 — localized temperature rise consistent with early mastitis; flagged pre-milking.
07:22Feeding anomalyTag 0661 — bunk visits down 31%; cross-referenced against the overnight rumination dip.
08:05Geofence breachTag 0788 — crossed the north pasture boundary; alert pushed to mobile with a locate route.
08:40Group movementHerd — drift toward the water line detected mid-morning; consistent with a heat-stress pattern.
09:15Heat window closingTag 0915 — optimal insemination window ~4h remaining; reminder queued.
10:02Recovery confirmedTag 0204 — gait normalized after intervention; lameness watch cleared.
10:50Rest disruptionTag 1041 — restlessness overnight, baseline deviation logged for review.
11:33Location fixHerd — position map refreshed across 3 pastures; data offline since 09:00 synced on beacon reach.
12:18Rumination recoveryTag 0473 — chewing back to baseline after feed adjustment; watch downgraded.
13:00Ketosis flagged earlyTag 1207 — metabolic pattern persists; veterinary review recommended on day 1, not day 5.
13:44New insert pairedTag 1506 — chip paired during routine vaccination; baseline learning started.
14:20Pasture shiftHerd — grazing moved to the east pasture; movement logged for rotation planning.
15:05Stray alertTag 0788 — outside the designated area for over 20 minutes; locate route re-shared.
15:52Outbreak traceHerd — respiratory cluster mapped to a shared pen and water point; root cause flagged.
16:30Breeding window loggedTag 0915 — insemination timed to detected estrus and recorded to the herd system.
17:10Daily rollupHerd — 4 alerts cleared, 2 open, 1 vet referral; all data retained on-beacon for trace.
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