RuminAI is early-warning software for dairy herds. It reads the rumen bolus data you already have and flags a sick cow hours before she looks sick, without flooding you with false alarms.
Most diseases on a dairy farm are treatable. What decides the bill is how long a sick cow goes unnoticed. The biology gives an early signal; the farm usually sees it too late.
In acute infections such as toxic mastitis, core temperature can rise many hours before the milk changes or the udder swells.
Many losses happen around calving, when dry and fresh cows are outside milk-based monitoring.
In price-sensitive markets, subscriptions get cancelled when costs rise, and installed sensors go unused.
Rumen temperature is noisy in ways simple alarms ignore. Turning it into a short daily list a farmer can trust is the hard part, and it is where RuminAI focuses.
Temperature rises and falls every day by about as much as the fever threshold. Compare morning with evening and you get false alarms.
Every drink cools the rumen for hours, so a large share of readings are distorted. Treated naively, drinking looks like illness or masks it.
Heat and feed changes move every cow at once. A useful alert separates one sick animal from a hot afternoon.
Charts are simplified illustrations of typical patterns, not data from a specific farm.
RuminAI compares each cow with her own normal pattern and with her herd, and builds up evidence over time before raising an alert.
We would rather be trusted than impressive. Temperature is powerful for some conditions and blind to others, so we say which is which.
A bolus is a small capsule given to a cow by mouth. It settles in the first stomachs and stays there, reading conditions from inside the animal. RuminAI turns those readings into early warnings.
Video by the CLEAR Center at UC Davis. It shows a bolus used in methane research; RuminAI is not affiliated with the video or its makers.
RuminAI starts with the sensors already in your cows. Every alert is written for the barn: which cow, what is likely wrong, and what to check.
Connects to the bolus system on your farm, adds milk, feed and health records where available, and sends a short ranked list to your phone each day.
A simpler, affordable option for farms where current monitoring costs too much. In development.
We don't quote detection accuracy until we have measured it on real herds with vet-confirmed cases. We are looking for a small number of farms and veterinarians to build that evidence with us.
We learn about your herd, your bolus system and the records you keep.
With your written consent, we connect your bolus data and herd records.
The software learns the normal pattern of every animal in your herd.
You get alerts, your vet confirms cases, and the system improves on your farm.
Pilot farms, veterinarians, bolus makers and research groups are all welcome.
RuminAI