Water Rat

Farmo's Water Rat (patent pending) is the world's easiest to set up water tank, water trough and livestock waterer sensor on the market. Simply throw it in a waterer, or tether it to a tank and get real time alerts on your phone or PC when the water level drops. When it's floating, cattle will inspect the Water Rat then quickly leave it alone once they realise they can't push on it (and break it) like a fixed object. The Water Rat has GPS inside so when you move the mob, you move the Water Rat and save on capital expense by not requiring a sensor for every waterer.

Suitable for all types of cattle operations including: 

• Background-stocker operations
• Backgrounder
• Commercial
• Cow-calf operations
• Creep feeding
• Feedlot
• Finishing operations
• Seedstock
• Breeders
• Stocker

How it works:

The Water Rat looks simple but has some smart technology inside including an accelerometer tilt sensor to detect movement, an NB-IoT chip to send data, and GPS to report location. When the water level reaches a low point, the Water Rat tilts over and sends an alert. When the water level rises another alert is sent to let you know the water is OK again. 

Data is sent via Cat-M1/NB-IoT on the local cellular network (AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, etc)  When you receive your Water Rat jump online to activate your subscription which covers the data, dashboard and alerts for a year. 

Monitoring stock water can be made more efficient by technology and allow much more frequent observations. However, human oversight can never be replaced when animal welfare is at stake.