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Nedap NOW · The cloud platform
Your monitoring.
A broader view.
Keep CowControl monitoring, enhanced with analysis, personalised work lists and a shared view of your farms.
Discover Nedap NOW on video
The platform in action.
In everyday farm work.
An official Nedap NOW presentation at NexGen Dairy: accessing data and using it in herd management.
Official Nedap video in English. French subtitles are available using the player’s CC button.
Open the video on YouTube ↗01 · Understand the difference
Velos and Nedap NOW.
The differences at a glance.
Here, the classic version means CowControl used with the Velos interface. Available functions depend on the version, sensors and installed licences.
| Your use | Velos | Nedap NOW |
|---|---|---|
| Monitor cows | Heat and behaviour already monitored according to sensors. | This CowControl foundation remains central to the solution. |
| Access data | Interface linked to the installation; remote access depends on version and active services. | Cloud platform, browser and CowControl app. |
| Analyse over time | History and reports according to version. | Extended history and new analysis possibilities. |
| Work as a team | Lists and access according to the existing configuration. | Personalised lists and access rights by person or role. |
| Monitor several sites | Management centred on each installation. | A consolidated site view, with comparisons and site-specific permissions. |
| Compare transition | Individual monitoring according to equipment. | Transition Monitoring: compare groups and periods around drying off and calving. |
The key change: NOW broadens analysis and work organisation. Some classic installations already offer remote access and reports: AGYE checks the differences for your system.
ALERTS ON YOUR PHONE
Heat and health notifications, wherever you work.
With Nedap NOW, choose which alerts you receive on your mobile device to identify animals that need your attention, even when you are away from the dashboard.
Heat notifications
Receive a notification when an animal reaches your chosen heat score. Set the notification threshold in your mobile settings, then review the animal and its information to plan your checks and next steps.
Health notifications
Choose to receive urgent health alerts only, or all health checks. These notifications highlight animals to check; they do not replace examining the animal or a veterinary diagnosis.
Alerts tailored to your farm.
In mobile settings, select the relevant farm, enable the notifications you want, set the heat score and health alert level, then save. Settings can be configured separately for each farm. Also check your phone’s notification permissions and internet connection.
AGYE helps you get started and configure notifications to match your priorities.
02 · Practical additions
Useful information.
For each person.
Personalise priorities
Prepare work lists suited to each person’s tasks.
Share selectively
Define team and adviser access to relevant information.
Take a broader view
Explore more history and bring data together to analyse trends.
Bring several sites together
Compare farms in one platform and retain history when animals move between sites.
03 · A function specific to NOW
Transition Monitoring.
Measure the effect of your changes.
Nedap reserves this new function for NOW. It brings together eating, rumination and transition indicators to compare groups, periods or calving cohorts.
UNDERSTAND
Around calving
Compare behaviour, urgent alerts and indicators of return to cycling.
EVALUATE
Across several groups
Compare cohorts, seasons or sites to assess transition practices.
04 · Tools presented in NOW
Signals that are easier
to use.
Confirm availability and prerequisites with AGYE for your equipment, version and package.
Heat Score and Health Score: prioritise checks
Heat Score summarises heat intensity on a scale from 1 to 5. Health Score helps prioritise animals for observation and follow changes in the signal.
Fertility Insights: deepen reproductive monitoring
Highlight cows that have not resumed cycling or show reproductive signals requiring checking.
Herd Eating Patterns: analyse feeding rhythms
View changes in herd feeding behaviour and share them with an authorised adviser.
Heat Stress: follow group-level heat stress
Review the intensity and duration of heat stress signals to guide observations and actions in the building.
Pen Accuracy: identify cows in the wrong group
This function uses SmartSort Neck ID and sorting information. It requires compatible equipment.
SmartTag Ear: Nedap NOW is required to use this sensor. Ear tags and Neck collars can coexist in the herd. SmartTag Ear does not include electronic EID identification.
05 · Your installation
Move to NOW,
with a suitable project.
1 · REVIEW
Your existing equipment
Controller, Velos version, sensors, connection and software already in use.
2 · TARGET THE BENEFIT
Your priority uses
Teamwork, transition analysis, multiple sites or a SmartTag Ear project.
3 · VALIDATE THE OFFER
Configuration and cost
Compatibility, any upgrades, services and commercial terms specified in the quotation.
Must all sensors be replaced?
Moving to NOW depends on the existing installation. AGYE checks compatible hardware and versions before proposing an upgrade.
What happens if the internet connection fails?
Nedap provides local fallback operation for compatible essential functions. Remote access, synchronisation and cloud functions require a connection. Check fallback possibilities for your installation.
Does NOW replace my herd management software?
It complements the existing management system and can exchange data with compatible software. Interfaces are validated during the assessment.
What is the benefit for your farm?
Start with your current version and priorities to assess what NOW can actually add.
Nedap information and images. Official NOW presentation · Multi-site management. Functions and compatibility depend on configuration.