Water Rat

What is it?

The Water Rat by Farmo Australia is a highly durable, free-floating IoT sensor designed to provide incredibly simple, real-time water level monitoring for livestock tanks and troughs.

Ensuring that remote livestock herds have continuous access to water is a massive logistical challenge. Physically driving to distant paddocks to check water troughs consumes hours of valuable labor. If a pipe breaks or a trough runs dry unexpectedly, cattle can suffer fatal dehydration in a matter of hours. Traditional fixed sensors are frequently destroyed by curious or aggressive cattle pushing against them. The Water Rat explicitly resolves this hardware vulnerability. With a patent-pending design, this floating sensor is simply thrown into the waterer or tethered to a tank. Because it floats, cattle cannot break it like a fixed object. It utilizes built-in GPS and cellular networks to send real-time alerts directly to a phone or PC the moment water levels drop critically low.

Why use it?

Transitioning to a floating, GPS-enabled water sensor guarantees total peace of mind regarding animal welfare while drastically slashing the immense labor costs associated with manual trough inspections. By receiving instant alerts when water drops, farm managers can execute rapid, life-saving interventions before the herd is impacted. The device’s highly ingenious floating design completely eliminates the massive replacement costs caused by cattle destroying fixed sensors. Crucially, because the Water Rat features internal GPS, farmers do not need to buy a sensor for every single trough; when the mob is moved to a new paddock, the sensor is simply moved with them, providing incredibly cost-effective, continuous monitoring for all types of cattle operations.

Key Features

• Monitor Water Levels
  Functions as an incredibly simple, highly effective sensor designed to monitor exact water levels in remote livestock tanks and troughs.

• Float Freely Safely
  Features a highly ingenious, patent-pending floating design that completely prevents curious cattle from pushing against and breaking the sensor.

• Deliver Real-Time Alerts
  Utilises robust cellular networks to instantly push critical alerts directly to a smartphone or PC the moment water levels drop dangerously low.

• Track via Internal GPS
  Equipped with internal GPS, allowing farmers to easily move the sensor alongside the mob, saving massive capital expense on hardware.

• Support Diverse Operations
  Engineered to function flawlessly across all types of cattle operations, explicitly including feedlots, cow-calf operations, and remote backgrounder setups.

Who is it for?

This floating water sensor is engineered for commercial cattle farmers, remote livestock managers, and feedlot operators globally.

Have you used the Water Rat?

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