CattleEye alcanzó su primer gran hito la semana pasada con el anuncio de una ronda de financiación inicial por parte de inversores que comparten nuestra pasión por mejorar el sector lácteo y reducir las emisiones de carbono. Entre estos inversores se encuentran Turntide Technologies, Techstart Ventures LLP y Seventure Partners.
Turntide Technologies ofrece una solución revolucionaria para reducir el consumo energético mundial. Casi la mitad de la electricidad mundial la consumen los motores de inducción convencionales, pero casi la mitad se desperdicia debido a ineficiencias operativas. Sustituir los motores de todo el mundo por la solución de Turntide equivaldría a ganar siete selvas amazónicas.
Este potencial transformador no ha pasado desapercibido, ya que el Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, Breakthrough Energy Ventures y Footprint Coalition Ventures, de Robert Downey Jr., han invertido en la empresa. Esta nueva tecnología, que ya está llamada a convertirse en una parte fundamental de la solución al cambio climático, combina una potencia informática de vanguardia con algoritmos de aprendizaje automático para minimizar el desperdicio de energía.
La combinación de la potencia informática y los algoritmos de aprendizaje automático también ha tenido repercusiones en otros sectores. CattleEye aprovecha estos avances recientes para ofrecer información valiosa que ayude a mejorar el bienestar, la gestión y la huella de carbono del sector lácteo.
Changes in cow behaviour and appearance are difficult to assess on a daily basis, akin to not noticing family or close friends change over time. As herds have grown this task is next to impossible, resulting in management interventions such as feed adjustments and hoof checking to be reactive and untimely.
CattleEye utilises complex machine learning algorithms and computing power to enables a 24-hour eye on cows to see these subtle changes. It delivers insights enabling timely alterations to diet and health. Their first application is mobility scoring which has already been independently validated by University of Liverpool to equate to an expert veterinarian. Moreover, the cows can receive this oversight 24/7.
The ability to make early interventions in feed and mobility management allows the precise fine-tuning to parallel the Turntide offering, but with the dairy cow. As well as real-time improvements the data captured will facilitate the development of novel genetic insights to breed commercially resilient cattle, thus compounding the gains for the long term.
The co-founders Terry Canning and Adam Askew brought with them expertise in herd management cloud-computing software and machine learning vision analysis, respectively. With a global expert in facial recognition technology and leading dairy farmers on their advisory board, they are in a perfect position to augment agricultural management.
Management and genetic progress have greatly improved the welfare and carbon emissions of the dairy industry in the last few decades; CattleEye can bolster this with precise, objective and consistent information to see the things humans cannot.
Turntide Technologies have acknowledged the potential of CattleEye by investing in their second seed funding round. Innovation and collaboration are essential to combat climate change; CattleEye is excited to be backed by Turntide Technologies and others to play its part.
