THE SCR HEATIME HR SYSTEM MORE FEATURES MORE BENEFITS MORE TRAINING

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1 THE SCR HEATIME HR SYSTEM MORE FEATURES MORE BENEFITS MORE TRAINING

2 What is the SCR Heatime HR System? Boost your productivity and your peace of mind with the most comprehensive, standalone real-time cow health and reproduction monitoring system available. With its unique combination of activity and rumination monitoring, the SCR Heatime HR System enables you to quickly and accurately evaluate the reproductive, health, nutrition, and wellbeing status of your cows. With built-in advanced applications that provide additional timely and actionable insight, you can confidently make better-informed decisions about more aspects of your herd and farm management. You can boost productivity and reduce costs, and gain more control of your dairy farm operations. After one year with Heatime I m surprised, how fast our problem cows were pregnant we could drastically shorten our calving interval Heatime paid off for us Matthias Ludwig, Agrarbetrieb Am Bieleboh Beiersdorf, Germany 2

3 Key benefits of the SCR Heatime HR System Heat Health Calving Nutrition 3

4 Heat Why automated heat detection? SCR Heatime HR heat detection advantages Automated heat detection enables you to raise your conception rates with no need for visual observation or guesswork. You can reduce time and skilled labour requirements and reduce your calving interval, while reducing your dependency on reproductive hormones. In addition, you can reduce the number of days open, and grow and improve the genetic quality of your herd, ultimately raising lifetime milk production. Catch more heats and minimize false-positives. Using unique movement and movement intensity detection and rumination recording, the SCR Heatime HR System recognizes heatrelated behavior patterns (excluding truly silent heat), delivering exceptional heat detection accuracy, and recommendations on optimal AI timing. Why monitor rumination? Rumination is a proven direct indicator of cow well being and health. Dairy producers, veterinarians and nutritionists have long relied on cud-chewing as a key monitor of dairy cow health. Rumination levels should be checked consistently for early identification of disease. Early treatment of health issues can reduce the length of an illness and limit the amount of treatment needed. Why use SCR Heatime HR? Identify which cows are in heat Minimize false positives Improve conception rates Reduce veterinary and insemination costs Reduce your calving interval Improve herd genetics Improve milk production Reduce time, labour and cost 4

5 Health Group Routine Application This report highlights real-time irregularities in activity and rumination at the group or herd level that may indicate routine issues, feed and water supply issues, spreading illnesses, group panic, stress, or other disruptions to a stable daily routine. The alert is calculated based on a deviation in current data in relation to historical data and informs about the current status of each monitored group. Provides: Daily (24 hour) graph per group for each parameter: 2 weeks average ± STD areas. 2 weeks average group routine series. Current group data series (activity and rumination) this line is updated every time the report is refreshed or opened. The application indicates whenever the current data line is deviating from the average, which may indicate a potential problem. This allows you to react and take measures immediately. Check this report on a daily basis, especially when you are not physically present at the farm (using mobile monitoring). Whenever a planned action is carried out (such as treatment or barn service), check the recovery. If the system alerts, check the group to find the cause (panic, water supply or group mixing). Herd-average daily rumination 5

6 Calving ProCalve A new set of real-time alerts before and after calving time that provide farmers with unique insights into the calving period. NEW Pre-Calving Distress Alert Gain essential insights on cows experiencing unusual stress during calving NEW Post-Calving Distress Alert Minimize the impact of a calving disease with early warning of a post-calving problem Pre / Post Calving Distress: the system generates alerts for cows that are 260 days in pregnant and up to 5 days after reported calving. System lists cows that had a distress 3 days before the reported calving and up to 5 days after the reported calving, which is the period where the cow is exposed to higher risk. SCR Heatime Pro users will get a notification of distress through the distress report during the whole location. Distress (no rumination for a long time) is not a specific problem for calving only. Fresh cows monitoring: the report stores all the cows in the first 30 DIM, where the distress column shows the DIM and when the distress was identified (-3 <calving> +5) 6 Any cow recorded with distress, should get special attention for calving diseases, recovery and production curve.

7 Nutrition Insight into ration and nutrition issues at the group level enables timely attention to problems. Improve your nutrition strategy by quickly understanding how your cows react to ration changes. NEW Group Consistency Application Monitors and analyzes long-term rumination trends, and highlights any irregularities at the group level, like feeding changes, opening a new silage bunker, adjusting the ration, infiltration of rotten feed, and more. Valuable series for the daily rumination graph: Each point on the graph will be the group daily rumination average. The series provide the STD line of the above rumination series. The STD values represent the difference between the cow in the group and this can be interpret the feeding efficiency of that group: Offers insights into how feeding area changes are affecting cows; monitors and analyzes long-term rumination trends, and highlights any irregularities at the group level: Monitor planned and unplanned changes in the feeding area, such as opening a new silage bunker, ration/content changes, rotten feed, and more. Whenever the STD value (line) goes down, the cows rumination variability is smaller and the feeding efficiency is getting better. Whenever the ling goes up, it means the feeding efficiency is getting worst. As per current research: STD values below 100 are good, STD values above 120 are bad. Early detection of a problem and provides a perfect tool for recovery monitoring. Daily rumination range across the group, providing insight into the stability of the group. 7

8 Enjoy an easy-to-use, cow-friendly system Easily understood user interface The straight forward touch screen interface is easy to learn, so anyone can handle it. Multiple languages Get heat detection and health information in any of several languages, with single-click drill-down capabilities, including easyto-read graphs and reports. Easy installation and low maintenance Wireless system installation and neck tag attachment are fast, simple and safe. With up to eight years battery life1, the tags require very little maintenance and minimal replacements during a cow s lifetime. Long-range wireless connectivity with all tags, all the time Get the data from the tags in real-time from virtually anywhere on the farm. With the long-range wireless transmission coverage, activity and rumination measurement, data is reliably transmitted from wherever your cows are. You can monitor groups located in different barns without the cows passing an ID unit. 8

9 Before using SCR Heatime system, I made all the decisions based on personal experience. Now, with SCR Heatime, I feel closer to the cows and more confident in my decisions. I understood immediately how it worked and my employees learned to use it in 30 minutes. But, to properly analyze the rumination alerts I needed more learning time. My staff are doing only a few things, but I m using the system more deeply. Alessandro Nicola, Co-Owner and Herd Manager, Nicola Renato Farm, Italy All-in-one identification, heat detection and health monitoring Get maximum utility from a single tag, with integrated cow identification and long-range health monitoring and heat detection. The tag has an integrated optical channel that provides in-place identification for sorting gates and parlor systems. Mobile and alerts of key changes and events Stay connected to your cows wherever you are. Set the system to send text alerts and s according to your priorities. You can easily stay informed about, and manage, critical reproduction and health events from anywhere. 9

10 Save money and time with SCR Heatime HR We combine experience and dedicated research years of reference data listening to the rumen and innovative technology. 10

11 Maximize your return on investment through high scalability Upgrade to extended management capabilities Cost-effectively upgrade from the touch screen interface to a PCbased SCR Heatime Pro System. Use your existing tags for more powerful, centralized health and reproduction management. Add extended capabilities such as advanced reporting, lifetime cow history, remote access, and integration with SCR parlor management2 and third-party herd management systems. On average I m saving 1.5 to two hours a day. It s made my life a lot easier. Joel Sutter, Herd Manager, Fertile Ridge Dairy, USA Optional upgrades to support your growth Extend your system as your herd grows and your needs change. Optional upgrade kits enable you to easily add components such as a highly efficient sorting system, a parlor ID kit, range extenders, and more. Remote upgrading of tag software protects your investment Leverage advanced communication capabilities for more efficient tag management. Bi-directional, wireless communication to and from the tags enables easy remote software updates and upgrades, facilitating maintenance and protecting your investment. 11

12 Components SCR Heatime HR Terminal The SCR Heatime HR Terminal consists of a touch screen and alert light. The terminal processes the data received from the tag through the Base Unit (BU) installed in the farm. Using an advanced algorithm and requiring no PC, the system provides reports and graphs that enable you to work more efficiently and with greater confidence. Base Unit (BU) The long-range wireless Base Unit (BU) receives information from the tags and transmits it to the system a few times per hour so the information in the system is up-to-date at all times, no matter where the cow is. The BU is also capable of transmitting data to the tags and enables software updates of the tags and other advanced future features. Power Supply The Multi-Trafo connects the Heatime HR system to the electricity supply. It provides the energy for all installed Heatime components. 12

13 SCR HR LDn Tag The SCR HR LDn tag constantly monitors rumination, movement and movement intensity, delivering exceptional heat detection accuracy and health monitoring. The tag has 12 memory storage microcells, which each store two hours of monitoring data, enabling 24 hours of data storage. Complete Collar The complete collar consists of a belt, tag and balancing weight. The collar is positioned with the tag placed on the upper left side of the cow s neck. 13

14 SCR HealthyCow24 With SCR HealthyCow24, you bring your business always with you, on your smartphone, tablet and PC, to have everything under control, even if you are away from home, thanks to a Wi-Fi and 3G constant connection. 14

15 Full mobility Stay connected and in control of your farm from anywhere. With access to your farm data from a mobile device or computer, get real-time alerts and reports and always stay connected and in control. Enhanced management Make better, data-based decisions by seeing the big picture at a glance, with drill-down options to data and graphs by individual cow, group or herd. Advanced service Ensure reliable access to your farm data, online backup and restore, and easy remote software upgrades. 15

16 Technical Specifications 500m* Base Unit Dry Cows Cow Barn SCR Heatime Terminal 200m* Milking Parlour Sorting *Typical range of SCR Radio Frequency Base Unit: m (656-1,642ft) based on farm audit Maximum number of tags Tag compatibility Data history Group Management Sorting gate support Third-party interface Long-distance Up to 600 without Sorting Gate Up to 400 with Sorting Gate The maximum number of supported tags depends on the farm layout and is based on an SCR site survey SCR H-LD, SCR HR-LD, SCR HR-LDn 1 Year Herd can be divided into up to 10 groups Up to 4 sorting gates of 2 or 3 ways Through HealthyCow24 Typical range of SCR Radio Frequency Base Unit: 200 x 500m (656 x 1642 ft) based on farm audit 16

17 Customer Support SCR are committed to make every cow count by offering market leading customer support to our dealer network. Our support structures include which enables our dealer network to have access to our Partner Zone and our Install Base Management System enables dealers to manage SCR parts and access our service call customer support modules. SCR customer services are available to our dealer network to assist in technical and site survey support to ensure that our customers receive quick accurate information. 17

18 Training For Success We combine experience and dedicated research years of reference data listening to the rumen and innovative technology. Because the success of your farm depends on the health and productivity of your individual cows, SCR is committed to making every cow count by offering you the best training possible. Over the years the SCR Academy has developed a course programme which is tailored to meet their users requirements. This is a particular point of difference that SCR Academy offers - a comprehensive set of training, for both installers and users. SCR Academy s technical trainers are all farming enthusiasts with years of experience, delivering training that meets the business highest standards. SCR training is available for all three of SCR s product categories: Cow Intelligence Our leading cow monitoring systems Milking Intelligence Our advanced milking solutions Herd Intelligence Our powerful and scalable management system The trainings for all the product categories are organized in three different packages: Technical Training Our technical training offers insight into the basics of Heatime. It will enable you to define initial configuration, create groups and enter cows onto the system. Furthermore this training will give you the knowledge on the Sorting Gate option and the HC24 SCR cloud platform. System Training The objective of SCR s System Training is to help you get the maximum benefit from the report and graphs of the Heatime System. You ll be able to obtain actionable information for your decision process by reading and interpret the Heatime HR data. Farm Management Training With the Farm Management Training you ll learn how to give value to the herd management by using the health, nutrition and calving applications within the Heatime system - Group Routine, Group Consistency, ProCalve and Pregnancy Probability. Learn how Heatime can identify and alert you to issues like spreading illness, rumination irregularities at group level, calving distress or miscarriages in post-ai cows. 18

19 SCR Academy Zone The SCR Academy Zone on enables registered partners to view and download the most up-to-date SCR training material, including videos, training presentations, e-learning modules, technical training documentation and material. The zone also includes a training calendar, through which you can check the schedule of upcoming training sessions and register for individual sessions online. 19

20 SCR. Make every cow count SCR Headquarters 18 Hamelacha St , Netanya, Israel T: +972 (0) F: +972 (0) SCR North America 2013 South Stoughton Rd. Madison, WI 53716, USA Tel: /1/2 Fax: SCR Europe Via Mattei 2, Loc-Gariga Podenzano (PC), Italy screurope@scrdairy.com Tel: Fax: SCR LAR R. Dona Francisca 8300 BL.B-Modulos 7 e 8 Distrito Industrial Joinville/ SC-Brasil-Cep scrlar@scrdairy.com Tel: SCR China Floor 4, Building B, Baoneng Center, 12 Futong Dongdajie, Beijing, China scrchina@scrdairy.com Tel: +86 (0) Fax: +86 (0) Mob: I info@scrdairy.com Copyright 2015 SCR Engineers Ltd. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for SCR s products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. SCR shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein. HT HRLDn_16_Eng_Sep15 Contact NMR customerservices@nmr.co.uk