Academic Partnerships

Research-Grade Livestock Monitoring Built for Ownership and Inspection

Livestock Technologies builds research-grade livestock platforms with synchronized RGB and thermal capture, on-site compute and storage, controlled chute references, versioned outputs, and exports that institutions can inspect.

Research services can be scoped for capture design, graduate projects, grant proposals, export design, and study methods.

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Conceptual interface for livestock morphology research

The short answer

What Can a Research Team Use Now?

The platform provides synchronized field capture, on-site compute and storage, chute references, versioned outputs, and exports. Research teams can scope the equipment, data flow, and services around the needs of their study.

  • Fixed digital and thermal camera capture configured for the study site
  • On-site compute and storage configured for the research platform
  • Versioned outputs and time-stamped footage available for study review
  • Controlled chute capture of face, muzzle, and visible-tag reference views
  • Study-specific capture design, exports, methods, and review workflows
Research status

Field Hardware, Data Infrastructure, and Research Direction

Current work combines deployed infrastructure with study-specific research services and evaluation.

Documented field proof

Tuskegee University deployment

The platform is installed and recording 60 cattle across four pens, with synchronized RGB and thermal capture, solar power, on-site compute, storage, and chute reference capture.

Equipment-led deployment

Ownership and inspection

Academic teams can scope a one-time equipment deployment with on-site software, storage, versioned outputs, and export requirements.

Available to scope

Research services

Capture design, graduate projects, grant support, export design, and methods development can be scoped around the study.

Livestock Technologies field team and university research partners at Tuskegee
Current field deployment

Tuskegee Provides a Working Research Setting

The Livestock Technologies platform is installed and recording 60 cattle across four pens at the Tuskegee University research feedlot under a Sponsored Research Agreement. This documented field deployment combines fixed RGB and thermal cameras, solar power, on-site processing, storage, and controlled chute reference capture.

The deployment provides documented field proof for the equipment and data infrastructure available to research teams.

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Study design

Research Services Available to Scope

Scope the equipment, capture plan, exports, and methods around the needs of the study.

  1. 01

    Capture design

    Scope camera geometry, synchronized RGB and thermal capture, chute references, and the research setting.

  2. 02

    Graduate projects and grants

    Align equipment, services, and methods with student research and grant objectives.

  3. 03

    Exports and versioned outputs

    Define data formats, model-version context, storage, and export design for the study team.

  4. 04

    Methods development

    Build review workflows and study methods around the questions the research team needs to answer.

Editorial concept of synchronized digital and thermal cameras at a cattle chute

Research direction

RGB and Thermal Wound-Risk Screening at the Chute

A controlled passage can provide repeatable camera angles for visible and surface-temperature evidence. Wound-risk screening is a current research direction for teams studying review signals across relevant wounds, coat conditions, and environments.

This work is being developed as a research direction for study teams that want to design capture, labels, review, and export methods around wound-risk questions.

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Academic procurement

Equipment Ownership and Research Services

Research projects can be proposed as a one-time equipment deployment with on-site software and data infrastructure. Available-to-scope services include capture design, graduate projects, grant support, export design, and methods development. The scope can define equipment ownership, storage, support, updates, and deliverables.

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Researcher questions

Research Platform Questions

What can a research team scope?

Teams can scope synchronized RGB and thermal capture, on-site compute and storage, chute references, versioned outputs, data exports, capture design, graduate projects, grant support, and methods development.

Can equipment be purchased without a recurring software subscription?

Academic projects can be scoped as a one-time equipment deployment with on-site software and data infrastructure. The scope defines hardware ownership, support, updates, storage, exports, and optional services.

What is documented at Tuskegee?

The Tuskegee University research feedlot deployment is installed and recording 60 cattle across four pens with fixed RGB and thermal cameras, solar power, on-site processing and storage, and chute reference capture.

Build the Research Platform for Your Next Study.

Tell us the animals, environment, research question, and data needs for your next study. We'll help scope the equipment, services, and exports.