Telefónica Business Solutions, a leading provider of a wide range of integrated communication solutions for the B2B market, and Cattle-Watch, experts in cattle and livestock management, have announced today that they have signed an exclusive partnership to provide IoT connectivity solutions to the cattle industry in Latin-America and North America.
By this means, Cattle-Watch will incorporate into their products the Smart m2m Solution, the platform to manage and control IoT communications developed entirely by Telefónica.
Some of the advantages of this key partnership for the cattle industry are the following: regular location updates and status reports on cattle or herd nutritional status, reproductive events, disease, pasture quality and location with geofencing. Furthermore, it will facilitate cattle location in remote areas and will provide theft early warning directly to the rancher’s smartphone and drone operation with day/night camera among other advantages.
Telefónica’s Smart m2m allows its customers not just to have the best connectivity but also end-to-end management and the comprehensive control needed to achieve reliable and secure IoT communications between machines. The solution incorporates best in class features for real time consumption monitoring, supervision, global tracking, or fraud detection, whilst also providing flexible communication plans.
Angel Barrio, CEO Telefónica USA, part of Telefónica Business Solutions stated: “This partnership brings together Cattle-Watch expertise in the cattle industry and Telefónica’s leading connectivity solutions and is in line with our strategy to provide industry sector specialized solutions to our customers.”
Ehud Sasi, Cattle-Watch CBD stated “the purpose of the system is to bring more food to the world and the cooperation with Telefónica will enable Cattle-Watch to boost the deployment of the system for the benefit of Ranchers world-wide”