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CERES TAG and Think Digital Partner to Deliver Biosecurity

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CERES TAG and Think Digital Partner to Deliver AI-Powered Biosecurity Detection and Response

Cattle producers are set to benefit from a powerful new capability in livestock biosecurity surveillance, detection and response with a collaboration between CERES TAG and Think Digital’s RemoteVet ai platform.

This partnership brings together CERES TAG’s direct-to-satellite livestock monitoring technology with Think Digital’s RemoteVet mobile application to provide producers with a comprehensive, end-to-end biosecurity solution. The combined platform enables early detection and monitoring of serious biosecurity threats, including New World Screwworm (NWS), Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), Lumpy skin disease (LSD), and Buffalo fly, with the flexibility to expand to additional risks.

CERES TAG’s plug-and-play, direct-to-satellite solution requires no on-ground infrastructure, delivering real-time GPS location and behavioural insights from livestock in even the most remote environments. The system continuously monitors each animal and provides daily reporting across key metrics, including eating time, rumination, walking, resting, drinking, and total grazing time, alongside high and no-activity alerts that can indicate distress, illness, or mortality.

How the RemoteVet App Works

By analyzing these behavioral patterns alongside location data, producers can identify significant deviations that may signal the onset of a biosecurity event, often well before it is detectable through conventional inspection methods. While traditional passive monitoring systems can take up to six days to detect an active incursion, CERES TAG enables detection within 24-48 hours, dramatically improving response time and reducing the risk of spread.

Once an alert is triggered, producers can use the RemoteVet mobile application to assess the animal in the field. Using the forward facing camera on a mobile, the user can capture a photo of their animal. The app’s AI engine then analyses the image, highlights areas of concern, and returns a confidence-based assessment of the likely condition. Producers can then choose to notify their veterinarian, biosecurity authorities, or both, ensuring rapid escalation, expert validation, and appropriate action.

This integrated approach reduces the burden on producers to make high-stakes decisions while enabling veterinarians and authorities to prioritise resources more effectively. It also introduces a “no-fault” pathway for escalation, supporting faster reporting and improved overall biosecurity outcomes.

Industry Leaders Highlight Benefits of RemoteVet

Kat Bidstrup, CEO of Think Digital, said that providing producers with useful tools to help detect and report biosecurity concerns is the key driver of the partnership.

“Workers on the frontline need practical support to identify and triage unfamiliar conditions in their livestock. We know early detection and response is key to preventing widespread outbreaks that could devastate our livestock industry.

“We’re excited by the potential of this partnership with CERES TAG to improve biosecurity preparedness.”’

David Smith, CEO of CERES TAG, said the partnership represents a step-change in how the industry manages biosecurity risk.

“Compulsory culling of livestock in infected or adjacent zones, regardless of individual animal status, has historically resulted in significant and often unnecessary losses,” he said. “With this capability, we can move toward more accurate and time-sensitive assessments, potentially saving millions of animals during an outbreak.

“We now have the ability to remotely detect, monitor, and assess biosecurity risks in near real time, providing producers, veterinarians, and authorities with the confidence to act early. This can be the difference between losing entire herds and preserving valuable livestock.

“Too much has been lost in the past. By combining CERES TAG with RemoteVet.ai, we are creating a pathway for governments and industry to adopt digital detection systems that reduce risk, protect supply chains, and safeguard billions of dollars in economic value.”

RemoteVet.ai is now available alongside CERES TAG for integration into government and industry biosecurity frameworks, supporting proactive risk management and faster response capabilities across the livestock sector.

About CERES TAG

CERES TAG is a global leader in direct-to-satellite livestock monitoring, delivering real-time animal data and insights without the need for on-ground infrastructure.

About Think Digital

Think Digital is an innovative technology company focusing on developing technology-driven solutions that improve decision-making, efficiency, and outcomes across industries, including agriculture and biosecurity.

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Introducing CERES GEN6

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Introducing CERES GEN6
Measure, Manage, Multiply

Livestock producers across the globe make decisions every day that shape herd performance and long-term profitability. Those decisions are grounded in generations of experience formed from a learned understanding of land, cattle, and seasons. Yet even with that knowledge, uncertainty remains, particularly around reproduction, animal health, and labour efficiency. Beef production has always been built on resilience and responsibility, but modern pressures demand clearer, faster insight to support those requirements.

CERES TAG is not looking to change what has always been, but rather enhance it. CERES TAG offers more than a livestock monitoring device, but rather a phenotype performance and intelligence platform that gives producers clearer visibility and decisions across their ranch.

The launch of CERES GEN6 introduces a significant advancement, with the introduction of the industry’s first reproduction suite delivered via a solar-powered, satellite connected smart ear tag. This includes automated estrus detection for beef cattle, real-time calving alerts, and mounting behavior monitoring. These algorithms work alongside CERES TAG’s established capabilities, including pasture feed intake indicators, GPS location data, and behavioral patterns linked to health and welfare. By analyzing behavioral data at the animal level, producers gain clearer visibility across reproduction, health, movement, and pasture utilization, enabling more confident, data-supported management decisions that convert to greater productivity and profitability.

The CERES GEN6 device also delivers a new price point that changes the conversation. Through continued innovation and refinement, CERES TAG has introduced an 80% reduction in upfront price, positioning CERES GEN6 as not only more powerful, but more accessible. The focus on improvement and supporting ranchers to improve their profitability at scale remains at the centre of what CERES TAG does.

The impact of CERES GEN6 is practical and almost immediate.

Remote, in field, heat detection improves breeding timing, increasing conception rates and tightening calving windows. Real-time calving alerts reduce labor demands and enable faster intervention during high-risk periods, particularly valuable in large or remote grazing environments where constant visual observation isn’t feasible. Mounting activity monitoring provides further confirmation of breeding dynamics, offering insight into bull performance and identifying females that may require attention.

The cost of operating without this level of visibility is often underestimated; Missed heats, extend calving intervals and reduce lifetime productivity. Inefficient breeding timing wastes both labor and bull power. Calving complications that go undetected increase losses. Subtle health or welfare issues can quietly erode performance over time. Without objective behavioral data, producers may unknowingly retain animals that are underperforming or fail to identify opportunities to optimize herd efficiency. CERES GEN6’s design is there to reduce that uncertainty. It strengthens producer intuition with measurable, animal-level intelligence, not replacing experience, but enhancing it.

The goal is straightforward: provide clear insight so that every management decision carries greater confidence and economic impact.

By combining advanced reproduction algorithms, health and behavioral intelligence, and a significantly lower entry cost, CERES GEN6 represents a meaningful shift in what smart livestock technology can deliver. As innovation continues, accessibility increases, ensuring more ranchers can benefit from tools that improve reproductive performance, streamline labor, and drive long-term profitability.

The future of herd management is not about replacing tradition. It’s about equipping it with better visibility.

Contact your local supply store or one of our CERES TAG team to earn more from your heard today.

Email: info@cerestag.com

Web: www.cerestag.com

 

CERES TAG included in Swiss National Traceability Program

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CERES TAG included in Swiss National Traceability Program

Bern, Switzerland — Tuesday, 17th February 2026

Identitas AG, Switzerland’s national organization for animal identification, traceability, and disease control, has announced the integration of the world’s first smart livestock tag into its national traceability framework following a seven-year technical collaboration with CERES TAG.

The collaboration has spanned development from early prototype through to commercial readiness, including extensive evaluation of performance, reliability, and suitability for European alpine and remote operating conditions.

Identitas AG was established in response to severe biosecurity events in Europe and the United Kingdom that occurred decades ago and resulted in the loss of significant numbers of livestock. Those events led to the implementation of robust national traceability systems with individual animal identification using visual ID ear tags, combined with regulated, manually recorded animal movements. While these systems remain effective, evolving biosecurity risks and operational demands have driven Identitas AG to explore automated, scalable, and future-ready technologies capable of providing more timely situational awareness.

Today’s biosecurity environment increasingly requires the ability to know where animals are on a daily basis, alongside indicators of welfare and, where appropriate, performance. Livestock populations represent the highest potential biosecurity risk, and therefore remain a central focus of national traceability and disease preparedness strategies.

A Spokesperson for Identitas AG said: “Switzerland has topological challenges. Satellite connectivity is essential if we are to achieve true automated national traceability across all regions.”

The Spokesperson for Identitas AG added: “Identitas is a national traceability platform operating in German, French, and Italian, and it is essential that Identitas retains full control of all national traceability data. The open platform architecture of CERES TAG allows data to be securely captured and managed directly within Identitas’ multilingual systems from the moment it enters the platform.”

Identitas AG first became aware of CERES TAG in 2018, when the technology was supported by a national meat industry organization with the aim of advancing global leadership in traceability and biosecurity monitoring. CERES TAG was developed as the first direct-to-satellite livestock monitoring platform, designed to operate as an open system that allows end users and national authorities to select software solutions best suited to their operational needs while maintaining data sovereignty.

Since that time, the platform has undergone multiple development cycles to enhance robustness, reliability, and capability in line with regulatory and operational requirements.

“In today’s technology environment, we must ensure we are using the best available tools to strengthen our ability to prevent and respond to biosecurity incursions,” the Spokesperson for Identitas AG said. “At the same time, these tools can improve transparency and everyday understanding of the animals that are central to Switzerland’s economic prosperity in agriculture.”

David Smith, Chief Executive Officer of CERES TAG, commented: “Our long-standing collaboration with Identitas AG has been invaluable in understanding national-level requirements for traceability, data governance, and continuous improvement. Working at a sovereign level has shaped the platform into one that is ready for this next stage in global traceability.”

Identitas AG has commenced initial commercial deployment of the smart tag technology as part of a phased implementation approach. As operational experience and adoption increase, the program is expected to inform future standards for national livestock traceability in Switzerland and beyond.

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