Cloud app helps dairy farmers monitor the cows’ wellbeing

Cloud app helps dairy farmers monitor the cows’ wellbeing

DeLaval is a worldwide leader in milking, with equipment and solutions for dairy farmers – providing important support for sustainable dairy farming. Together with Knowit, they have created a unique app solution whereby cows are IoT-connected to the cloud. The goal is to help dairy farmers monitor the cows’ wellbeing in real time.

An agile team from Knowit with competence in cloud-based development, IoT, AWS, and Scrum developed a solution that aggregates all the data and compares them with other available data, producing data and analyses that are useful for the farmer in their daily work. DeLaval also has an in-house innovation team that builds algorithms for predictions based on the sensor data, using machine learning.

In the newly developed app, all cows are IoT-connected to AWS, where the data is organised and machine learning is used to produce reliable information and predictions. Methods that were used during development include: Node.JS, Python, Type Script, AWS Greengrass (IoT) MQTT, Lamda, Dynamo DB, and S3.