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Huh? An electric fence can't induce a cow to stay within a boundary? The collars here are basically the same training collars they make for dogs. They require constant recharging (at least once a week) and have other downsides like range, etc.
These are solar powered.
Very cool. I wonder if one day we'll have neuralink technology down so commonplace that we could just RC animals directly.
>that we could just RC animals directly ...including humans?
I'd pay for that. Like someone holding your hand through something except the memory remains afterwards. Ah, amazing. Maybe when I'm reading, someone else controls my arm to do bicep curls. Fuck me, this is amazing.
I spent a year or two doing research on electronically herding cows. Dean Anderson at the USDA holds patents on it (which are probably about to expire, or may have already). We worked with him some and with CSIRO in Australia who I think also holds patents (maybe Halter has licensed them and collaborates with them?) The main reason there is interest in this technology is that fencing is expensive. Think many kilomete…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j00AULJLCNo
So this is one of the first uses of a microprocessor. To paraphrase Jaron Lanier, calling tracking collars "smart" is an insult to human intelligence.
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>that we could just RC animals directly ...including humans?
Yeah, man, instead of paying someone to teach me something I could have them do it with my body and just follow along in the background. The jump in pedagogy would be amazing. I'd pay for that. Like someone holding your hand through something except the memory remains afterwards. Ah, amazing. Maybe when I'm reading, someone else controls my arm to do bicep curls. Fuck me, this is amazing.
So I grew up on a dairy farm and we had electronic id badges since the mid-90's (actually there was a Surge system before that, but the main one was a DeLavel in 1997). We had a variety of issues that these were good for, but the gist is that the cow's identity is scanned and matched with statistics regarding her milking. Everytime she entered the parlor she was id-ed and then the system could be configured to separa…
i currently own a small cattle farm in rural australia and you are correct collars really are not a good solution not only do they rub on things but they love chewing on things especially rubber or plastic wires and electronics they would 100% chew on each others collars. We already use rfid ear tags which are small and unobtrusive and they still manage to occasionally rip those out, rubbing on things. If you were mu…
5c/month/cow sounds more reasonable. Which in turn means your hardware needs to cost only a couple of dollars and last many many years.
[edit]Location is a thing they can't do by the looks of it. Guess a GPS signal is weak if being recieved in the cow.
I spent a year or two doing research on electronically herding cows. Dean Anderson at the USDA holds patents on it (which are probably about to expire, or may have already). We worked with him some and with CSIRO in Australia who I think also holds patents (maybe Halter has licensed them and collaborates with them?) The main reason there is interest in this technology is that fencing is expensive. Think many kilomete…
Jesus, that is terrifying.
So I grew up on a dairy farm and we had electronic id badges since the mid-90's (actually there was a Surge system before that, but the main one was a DeLavel in 1997). We had a variety of issues that these were good for, but the gist is that the cow's identity is scanned and matched with statistics regarding her milking. Everytime she entered the parlor she was id-ed and then the system could be configured to separa…