In a farmyard, there is a 200-year old barn on a hilltop in Worcestershire, 130 miles northwest of London, Austin Knowles walks into every morning with cows busy uploading data to the cloud.

According to Bloomberg, each one of the animal have a half pound sensor installed into their stomach, that is linked with the Wifi service which gives Knowles information and update on the cows. It helps him analyse the health and well-being of the herd. For instance, the system in the cow's tummy sends a notification emails before the cow is visibly sick.

Knowles says, its not just the sickness that's updated but even when the cow's about to go in heat, the sensor gives that update too. Another farmer also added that, cows are hard to look after and the technology have taken the edge off a bit.

In almost two dozen countries who's using the Austrian startup SmaXtech to monitor livestock, Knowles Hollings Hill is one of the 350 using the technology in his farms. Reports from expressfrancias says, these sensor can track minute by minute data about the temperature of the cow, its movement as well as its activity. It also gives 95% accuracy on it's pregnancy too.

Stephan Rosenkranz, the co-founder of SmaXtec said that, the device would make it a lot easier to look at the cow inside during its sickness than doing it in the lab. The device have a battery life of four years, and inserted into the first four stomach through the cow's throat using a metal rod and lodges in the rumen.

It looks like the devices have been implanted in 15,000 cows in Britain over the last six years. The set up cost of the device is $600 and to set up the network would is the cost between $75 and $400 per cow.

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