Gujarat based dairy technology solutions company introduces new wearable equipment for cows

Ahmedabad: Ahmedabad based leading Dairy Technology Solutions providing company Prompt Equipments, which provides a wide range of technology products and solutions for over two decades across the dairy supply chain today introduced an animal wearable equipment which is capable of keeping a watch on the eating habits of the cattle as well as telling when the heat cycle of the cow starts.

Director of the Ahmedabad based company which has its business across 22 states with more than 50 lakh farmers of over 50,000 villages using its various equipment including those used to test the quality and density of milk, Shridhar Mehta said that the nimal Heat Detection System, an animal wearable which aids in improving farm productivity and better animal health has been named as BovSmart and launched recently for trials.

He said that it was a comfortable and non-invasive animal wearable with Internet of Things (IoT) solution designed for timely detection of the onset of cow’s heat cycle. It was also capable of indicating whether the cow was eating properly or not. It works on the basis of the movement of cows. In developed countries such equipment were available but were too costly for Indian farmers to use. We have designed it in such a manner that it is affordable. One receiver equipment for all the wearable of the cows for an area with a radius of 5 km would be used.

“BovSmart has been developed with a specialized algorithm, and is designed to give actionable alerts that ensure timely breeding with a high success rate. The software leads to better animal health, and improved productivity,” said Mehta.

He also said that many more products, aimed at improving bovine and farm yields, are in the development pipeline, and would be launched going ahead. To offer innovative and affordable products and solutions to dairy industry, Prompt has collaborated with premier technological institutions like IIT Kanpur and IIT Mumbai.

Over the last 27 years, Prompt has launched a number of innovative products and solutions that ensure transparency and quality in the milk supply chain.

“From cow to consumer, milk travels a long way. Prompt’s innovative products and solutions, cover the entire spectrum from farm management solutions, milk collection system, and milk testing equipment to ensure that quality and purity of milk is retained at every step of its journey. Our ideas and innovations are a part of our pursuit of maintaining the sanctity of milk,” said Mehta.
Mehta said that in 1992, his company diversified into the dairy sector with Electronic Weighing Scales, followed by Automatic Milk Collection System in 1995 and introduced Fat’omatic, a patented Milk Testing equipment, in 1999. It also introduced India’s first indigenously developed Milk Analyzer in 2009, launched cloud-based Bulk Milk Cooler (BMC) Monitoring System in 2014, undertook the world’s biggest IT integration in the dairy industry with Amul Automatic Milk Collection System (AMCS) in 2015 and developed animal husbandry and farm management solution in 2017.