Silo Monitoring
Smart Feed Bin: Predictive Grain Monitoring with Real-Time Analytics
How Envision created BinVision with TagoIO to prevent feed outages in livestock operations. Case study shows automated grain monitoring, real-time alerts, and elimination of dangerous manual bin inspections for farms.
The Background
Envision emerged as an agricultural technology company based in North Carolina, US, specializing in mid- to large-capacity on-farm feed storage and inventory management solutions across diverse agricultural markets, including comprehensive livestock operations for hogs and poultry. Envision’s agricultural market applications extend beyond basic storage to include livestock facility monitoring, feed management systems, and environmental controls for swine and poultry houses, supporting the state’s $84 billion agricultural economy.
The company’s technology solutions address the unique challenges faced by the whole United States’ significant hog and poultry industries, which represent major components of the state’s agricultural output, providing integrated monitoring and management systems that optimize both grain storage operations and livestock facility performance.
Binvision prevents feed outages, cuts delivery costs, and eliminates guesswork — so you can manage bins without ever leaving the ground.
The Challenge
Farms and agricultural operations faced critical inefficiencies in their grain storage operations that were impacting their ability to maintain optimal inventory levels and manage their farming operations effectively. Agricultural clients relied on traditional monitoring methods that created reactive environments where problems were discovered too late, causing costly disruptions & emergency situations.
Reactive Manual Monitoring Creating Blind Spots
Agricultural operations depended on manual feed bin inspections that resulted in delayed detection of grain level changes and issues. Farm staff had to physically visit each feed bin to assess grain levels.
Feed Outages Impact on Livestock Operations
Feed deprivation, even for short periods, triggers immediate stress responses in livestock that compromise immune systems, reduce growth rates, and decrease reproduction performance.
Limited Data Analytics Preventing Strategic Planning
The lack of comprehensive consumption data and trend analysis prevented operations from making informed strategic decisions about inventory management and purchasing optimization.
The Solution
Envision recognized the industry’s need for a comprehensive smart solution that could meet the needs of agricultural clients struggling with grain storage management while still remaining affordable, so they partnered with TagoIO to create BinVision.
TagoIO provided the technological foundation necessary to deliver real-time monitoring solutions to farms and agricultural operations, enabling Envision to transform their clients’ reactive management approaches into proactive, data-driven operations. TagoIO enabled Envision to offer continuous, automated monitoring services of grain levels across their clients’ feed bin facilities, eliminating the need for manual inspections.
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