About Farmture
Farmture developed a smart feeder to monitor and improve animal health and performances in the swine industry. The product is named UnclePhil.
Vision
Empower farmers to change non-sustainable practices without giving up on performance.
Reframed Challenge
In animal farming most of the antibiotics are given for prevention purposes and not as a cure, due to the inability to identify diseases early. This leads to losses and costs for farmers and causes antimicrobial resistance, which incurs when the bacteria in a healthy animal “get used to” the antibiotic itself, hence becoming immune to it.
Solution Description
With UnclePhil, farmers will be able to identify sick animals before infections can spread on the farm.
By embedding sensors and cameras in the feeders currently used, each animal is monitored multiple times a day for various parameters which can signal the presence of a disease. The farmer will have access to this information, and will be notified if an animal presents anomalies in the behavior or in the vital parameters recorded. When the ill animal is identified, it can be treated accordingly, thus removing the need for treating all of them, with significant cost reductions for the farmer. The least antibiotics are given to healthy animals, the smaller is the chance that antimicrobial resistance can be developed. Antimicrobial resistance is projected to cause 10 M deaths every year by 2050 and cause huge economic losses.
