From a family ranch to research-grade hardware.
Open Range Systems was founded by Alex Wormuth—a software engineer who spent his career building reliable systems at NASA, Alphabet, and Coinbase.
His grandmother built the family ranch from the ground up. His father runs it today, and—like every rancher—is really in the business of handing something down: land kept whole, a way of life that outlasts him. Alex is the engineer in the family, and ORS is how he’s helping carry that legacy forward.
The problem on the land was obvious: the rangeland where cattle actually live has no cell coverage, no gateways, and no practical way to get data off the land. The tools that exist are built for feedlots and dairies—not for the open range, and not for the researchers trying to study it.
So ORS started building its own: a low-cost solar ear tag with direct-to-satellite connectivity and open data—reliable enough to run for years in the field, and simple enough that anyone on the ranch can use it.
Engineering that has to work the first time—for the open range.