Overwatch
Satellite-connected ear tags and sensors that deliver location, behavior, and environmental data from the most remote rangeland on Earth. No cell towers, no gateways, no base stations. Just open sky.
Complete visibility. One screen.
Two sensors. Everything you need to know about a grazing animal.
Location (GPS)
Where is the animal right now? Where has it been? How is it using the grazing system? Location history enables pasture management, stocking rate optimization, and instant recovery when something strays. If there’s a problem, ride right to it—don’t waste a day searching.
Management of the animal and how it interacts with the environment.
Behavior (Accelerometer)
How many steps is it taking? How much is it resting? Ruminating? Eating supplement? On-device algorithms classify behavior from raw accelerometer data and generate alerts when patterns change—early indicators of illness, depression, calving, or injury.
Physiological insight without invasive sensors. Know when an animal needs attention before it’s an emergency.
Both data points come from a single ear tag. No collar required. No gateways. No base stations. Just a tag talking directly to satellites.
Collars are for virtual fencing. Location and behavior can come from a tag.
Affordable at scale
Collars cost $150–$300+ per head and require large batteries to power virtual fencing actuators. An ear tag eliminates the collar form factor entirely—smaller, cheaper, solar-powered, and deployable across entire herds at a fraction of the cost.
>90% is the benchmark
Retention in rugged environments is the biggest hardware challenge. Most commercial sensors are seeing above 90% retention rates. Our enclosure and attachment system are designed from first principles for multi-year survival in harsh rangeland conditions.
Zero babysitting
The biggest barrier to adoption isn’t the technology itself—it’s the reluctance to manage it. Producers don’t want to learn a new system any more than they want to learn a smartwatch. The technology has to be invisible: tag it, get data, never think about it again.
Engineered from first principles.
Rugged by design
Built for longevity
Solar energy harvestingCustom hardware. Custom firmware. Direct-to-satellite via NTN. Every component selected for durability, power efficiency, and years of maintenance-free operation.
Direct-to-satellite via NTN
Data goes straight from the tag to satellites overhead. No cell towers, no base stations, no gateways to install or maintain. No permitting on BLM or Forest Service land.
Solar-powered & maintenance-free
Solar energy harvesting eliminates battery swaps entirely. Deploy it once. The tag runs for years in the harshest conditions—heat, cold, rain, dust, hooves.
GPS + accelerometer in an ear tag
Both core sensors in a form factor that’s affordable at scale. Hourly position updates and continuous behavior classification from a tag that costs a fraction of a collar.
Field to phone. No cell towers required.
Every other livestock tracker on the market requires cell towers, LoRa gateways, or base stations—thousands of dollars in infrastructure before you get a single data point. And when the gateway goes down, you’re blind again.
Overwatch tags communicate directly to satellites via NTN. Tag an animal in the morning, have location and behavior data by lunch.
- Direct-to-satellite via NTN—no towers, gateways, or base stations
- Solar energy harvesting—no batteries to swap, ever
- GPS + accelerometer in an ear tag form factor
- Lowest per-head cost at scale
- Zero producer management—tag it and forget it
Reduce input costs
Stop burning fuel and hours checking on things that are fine. Sensors surface only what needs attention. A single operator can manage what used to take a crew.
Keep producers safe
Feeding cows in winter pastures and tagging calves are physically dangerous. Remote monitoring keeps aging operators out of harm’s way.
Actionable alerts
Behavior change, calving, illness, boundary breach, water failure—get notified when it matters and ride directly to the problem.
Let’s build this together.
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