Detect BRD Earlier. Reduce Mortality. Improve ROI.
Seismi's ear-tag sensor continuously monitors heart rate and respiratory rate in feedlot cattle — the earliest physiological indicators of Bovine Respiratory Disease onset. Detect illness before visible symptoms appear, enabling timely interventions that reduce mortality, cut retreatment costs, and preserve average daily gain.
Bovine Respiratory Disease: The Feedlot Industry's Most Costly Challenge
BRD is the most economically damaging disease complex in U.S. feedlots, driving treatment costs, labor burden, mortality, and downstream performance losses across the industry. Despite decades of investment in vaccines, therapeutics, and management protocols, outcomes remain constrained by a fundamental problem: disease is typically detected too late.
Most feedlots rely on pen riders to visually identify sick cattle — a process that is subjective, labor-intensive, and often catches illness only after visible clinical symptoms have appeared, when treatment efficacy is already reduced. The result is a cycle of late pulls, increased retreatments, higher mortality, lost average daily gain, and excessive antibiotic use.
The industry needs a way to detect BRD onset earlier — before visible symptoms — using objective, continuous physiological data. That's what Seismi delivers.
Core Capabilities
Heart Rate Monitoring
Continuous cardiopulmonary tracking, detecting deviations that signal early-stage BRD.
Respiratory Rate Monitoring
Real-time respiration tracking to identify respiratory distress before clinical symptoms are visible.
BRD Early-Warning Alerts
Actionable, prioritized alerts calibrated with veterinarians to flag at-risk animals without causing alert fatigue.
Herd-Level Analytics
Cohort trends and decision-support dashboards for feedlot managers and consulting veterinarians.
How It Works
Tag at Intake
Lightweight ear-tag sensor attaches to existing cattle ID tags during standard intake processing. No change to existing workflows.
Passive Data Collection
Fixed readers and wireless power stations at feed bunks and water tanks automatically collect vitals as cattle go about their routine. No batteries to replace. No manual scanning.
Cloud Analytics
Raw physiological signals are processed in the cloud, converting heart rate and respiratory rate patterns into actionable health insights.
Prioritized Alerts
Feedlot staff receive prioritized attention lists — not blanket alarms. Alerts are tuned with your consulting veterinarian to fit your protocols.
Earlier Detection. Smarter Treatment.
Earlier identification of BRD-at-risk cattle enables more targeted, timely treatment — reducing the need for broad-spectrum metaphylaxis. Seismi supports the industry's shift toward responsible antimicrobial stewardship by giving veterinarians objective physiological data to guide treatment decisions.
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