Everyone loves a tool that just makes your job easier. Technology can takeover plenty of little things in life like taking notes, scheduling meetings, and well, you get the point. But what about counting extremely expensive herds of cattle? Don’t worry, DJI’s Mavic 3 Enterprise is here.
A quick crash course on how you get beef, first you have to purchase it from a store, who purchases it from likely a distributor, who purchased it likely from a cattle farmer, who breeds and raises herds of thousands of cattle somewhere out in the country. Each cow can cost thousands of dollars when you sell it, so keeping track of how many you have is an important, regular, and painfully manual process to do.
HeadCount Inventory is using drones to make this task easier, accurate, and faster. The company uses Mavic 3 Enterprise drones, a relatively cheap piece of equipment in the world of specialized industry machinery, and all it needs to do is fly over a cattle yard, take photos, and it says will count each “head” of cattle to 99.997% accuracy.
The company offers two services, a full count, which launches a swarm of drones up to count up to 90,000 heads in about two hours, and automated services that fly over feed yards to give regular statistics to cattlemen on their herd.
