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The smaXtec bolus provides you with highly precise and unique data straight from the reticulum – data that you can’t get anywhere else! With information such as inner body temperature and water intake per cow, you gain unique knowledge about your cows to future-proof your dairy operation!
You will access valuable information and actionable recommendations in clear task lists and have the best overview of your herd 24/7. That‘s how future-proof dairy farming works!
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smaXtec delivers numerous benefits in key success areas for your dairy business.
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Comprehensive monitoring of your animals gives you valuable insights to take your farm to the next level and increase profitability! By optimising reproduction and feeding, you can achieve significant cost savings. Early disease detection also has a positive effect on your results: Reduced vet costs, withdrawal periods and no performance drops! You optimise your farm continuously, increase milk yield and longevity.
With smaXtec you no longer act reactively, but proactively, and thus increase herd health. A healthier herd means more and better milk!
By using smaXtec technology, you detect and react to diseases days before other symptoms such as changes in feeding and rumination behavior or in milk. For example, you can combat milk fever or ketosis at the subclinical stage and prevent the outbreak of the disease altogether! Other diseases such as mastitis, metritis or pneumonia do not go undetected with smaXtec. With proactive treatments you save 40–70+ %, depending on the disease type!
Only with smaXtec can you measure the gold standard for health monitoring: inner body temperature! Supplemented by other valuable data, you get the most comprehensive insight into your herd. Installing the system is also very easy – all you need is a power socket, smaXtec provides the rest! In everyday life, you work with our easy-to-use software on your smartphone or PC, which is appreciated by our customers for its extremely high level of user-friendliness.
New functions and unique technologies are constantly being added, such as the recent AI-supported disease indication alerts or the water intake quantity per cow – as a customer, you will always benefit from our latest innovations!
Heat detection
With smaXtec you can automatically and reliably detect oestrus. With the oestrus index and recommended insemination time, you can increase your reproductive success.
Calving
Only smaXtec informs you on average 15 hours before calving. This allows you to separate animals at the optimum time, provide prophylactic support if required and intervene if necessary.
In addition, continuous monitoring allows you to detect abortions or fertility problems at an early stage.
Feed contamination, poor feed quality and feeding errors are (life) threatening for cows. With smaXtec, you can immediately detect all types of changes or problems related to feeding. With rumination data directly from the reticulum. The smaXtec feeding tool gives you a perfect overview of your feeding groups.
For targeted optimisation of feeding, we recommend the use of smaXtec pH boluses for part of the herd.
The transition phase is crucial for the cow's performance. With smaXtec, you can optimally monitor the period around calving and intervene in the event of even the smallest irregularities. This ensures that the cow gets off to the best possible start to lactation!
With smaXtec, you always know what's going on in the cowshed. Having all the information at your fingertips around the clock means you can plan your work better and avoid unpleasant surprises. With smaXtec, you’ll save time and effort: you know exactly which animals need your attention and don't have to search for conspicuous animals first. Tiresome routine tasks such as taking a temperature are no longer necessary. You optimise workflows and collaboration on the farm thanks to structured to-do lists and recommendations for action. Integration with common herd management systems ensures that data exchange and automatic selection run seamlessly.
Together, we improve your farm! Our professional consulting team including international agricultural experts and veterinarians will provide you with advice and support to ensure that the use of smaXtec is a full success. To begin with, you can expect a comprehensive customer onboarding program with a personal contact person. Our team is also available to answer your questions at any time during ongoing use. The comprehensive training program (webinars, user days, digital smaXtec Academy) allows you to continuously expand your knowledge, benefitting you and your cows.
Large operations face special challenges that we can help you with. With the smaXtec to-do lists and alerts, you can optimise SOPs and processes so that even less technically trained staff can successfully perform their tasks. AI-supported disease indication alerts enable even faster decisions. A clear overview can always be maintained, even with many different employees. By optimising numerous areas of your farm, you will reduce both workload and costs.
If you want to detect diseases at the earliest stage, you‘ll have to measure inner body temperature! This is the first indicator of developing diseases. You can also use it to detect calving and feeding problems at group level.
Only a cow that drinks enough will produce the desired milk yield. But how do you know how much your cow is drinking? Only with smaXtec can you see exactly how often and how much your cows are drinking. This way, you can always ensure optimum water supply.
Rumination behaviour gives us an insight into the health and feeding of the animals. We measure it where it occurs: in the reticulum. This provides you with the most accurate data as a basis for your feeding decisions. In combination with temperature, you can detect diseases at an early stage.
Activity is the most important parameter for heat detection. It also allows you to quickly identify acute problems such as lameness. We also offer a heat detection algorithm for pasture.
The pH value provides unparalleled insight into feeding and effects on the rumen. You can use it to detect subacute rumen acidosis (SARA) or other problems such as off-feed syndrome. With the smaXtec pH boluses, you can uncover feeding problems and enable needs-oriented feeding.
Royal Northern Spring Show
25 February 2026, Inverurie, Scotland, UK
Northland Field Days
26–28 February, Dargaville, Northland Region, New Zealand
Borderway UK Dairy Expo
13–14 March 2026, Carlisle, England, UK
Central Districts Field Days
19–21 March 2026, Feilding, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand
We were honoured at the UK Cream Awards 2025 – specifically for our Digital Assistant, recognised as one of the most innovative solutions in agriculture! Launched last year, the Digital Assistant enables preventive health management on farms and supports you with automated management lists, making everyday work easier and more efficient. This award highlights the real impact of our solution: proactive herd health, streamlined workflows and smoother team coordination – resulting in healthier animals.
smaXtec stands for more than bolus technology, data and healthy cows – it represents progress, fairness, and participation. With its new initiative OwnX, the company has launched an employee ownership programme that allows everyone to directly share in its success.
At Bunderg Farm in Tyrone, Northern Ireland, John Gilfillan milks about 150 cows. Since installing smaXtec, he has seen a step-change in herd health, fertility, and everyday farm management. “smaXtec gives us better control over herd health and fertility, which translates into healthier cows and a more productive farm,” John explains.
With smaXtec, you can optimise your dairy farming step by step. From reduced vet costs to increased milk yield and improved heat detection. These seven reasons show how preventative health management helps you reach higher goals.
James Hanley milks 350 cows on his family farm in County Tipperary. In our latest testimonial article and video, he explains how smaXtec has helped him detect health issues earlier, improve reproduction, and reduce antibiotic use by 60%.
With 236 cows in his barn, Jaap Pastoor decided to integrate smaXtec into his farm in Groningen a year and a half ago. This decision has transformed his daily routine in many ways: “I enjoy my work much more now because I’m always one step ahead instead of two steps behind. That means less stress and effort – especially because I can detect diseases at an early stage, preventing many treatments from being necessary in the first place.”
Jesper Jürgensen and his brother have halved mortality and made everyday work in their 170-cow dairy herd more efficient with smaXtec. Discover how they use the system for better calving preparation, accurate heat detection and a stress-free daily routine – all while boosting performance and profitability.
Sarah and Wayne Neilson, dairy farmers from South Taranaki, are milking 340 cows. Their Waverley farm, located on the west coast of the North Island, includes a 100-hectare effective milking block and a 700-hectare dry stock block. With smaXtec, they’ve implemented a new system to manage their cows’ health, making the farm more efficient and productive.
smaXtec has already made countless dairy operations more successful! Find out what our customers particularly appreciate about smaXtec.
“It’s been a real game-changer for both herd management and work-life balance.”
“The detection of numerous parameters is what convinced us. Moreover, since all possible events are recorded in the web application, we no longer worry about forgetting anything.”
“smaXtec gives us better control over herd health and fertility.”
“We’ve reduced antibiotic treatments by around 60%. I’m very happy with that.”
Now with the system, we can also see for each individual animal whether it is doing well or not.
“It’s a sensible, smart investment. smaXtec is truly worth its weight in gold!”
“It’s a state-of-the-art system that delivers accurate data on all aspects of reproduction and health.”
“Thanks to smaXtec, we have reduced our cows’ mortality rate by 50%.”
“smaXtec is an all-round system and I am fascinated by what this little device can do.”
“smaXtec is modern-day farming and a no-brainer for an intensive pedigree business.”
“I enjoy my work much more now because I’m always one step ahead instead of two steps behind.”
“It’s really been about prevention rather than cure, which is exactly what we were looking for.”
“It’s like having a labour unit standing in the field 24/7, keeping an eye on your cows.”
“I have completely eliminated antibiotics from my routine, so there’s no risk of dumping milk.”
“We no longer miss heats and inseminate almost blindly – so much trust we have in the system.”
“We are informed early about upcoming births, which is really important for us as a suckler farm.”
“smaXtec has really helped us up our game in animal health.”
“With a reduction in antibiotic usage of nearly 66%, this alone has made the cost of buying the system well worth it.”
“I’ve been able to prevent over 50% of mastitis cases before they fully develop.”
“The reproduction key performance indicators have changed a lot since installing smaXtec. It’s a dream for calving alerts. We now know how many cows we are going to have in the paddock and how many calves we need to pick up.”
“The smaXtec system has saved us around 36,000 dollars in direct antibiotic costs this season. And that’s before I take into account the additional income from the milk that didn’t have to be withheld.”
With the smaXtec App and browser-based smaXtec Web Software, you can see what is happening in your cowshed and how your cows are doing at any time. Decide individually what you want to be informed about via push notification immediately.
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In addition to our features, the smaXtec system helps you to discover further hidden potential in your business! The options are almost endless!
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We are very proud of the various awards and prizes we have received in recent years for our achievements in the field of precision dairy farming and as a company.
To make sure that using smaXtec is as easy as possible for you, we offer integrations with many common herd managements programmes. Check here if an integration with your system is already available.
Definitely. Mastitis can be detected at an early stage based on an increased somatic cell count, but numerous other diseases such as pneumonia, retained placenta or influenza can only be detected early with continuous inner body temperature measurement. Additionally, smaXtec delivers further vital information such as calving detection and precise oestrus alerts, including a recommended insemination time.
Many customers use smaXtec on pasture. We developed a specific algorithm for oestrues detection on pasture, and all other functions (calving detection, health and feeding monitoring) work just as in the freestall-barn. Depending on how long your cows are on pasture, we offer different solutions. If cows are on pasture on a long-term, we offer solar-powered read-out devices. Get in touch with us and we will prepare a non-binding offer based on your specific needs.
Of course. The bolus technology has been developed carefully with veterinarians and technical experts. It complies to all necessary standards and has been tested and certified to be rumen fluid resistant by DLG (German Agricultural Association). Find detailed information about the safety of the smaXtec system for your animals here.
Yes, smaXtec is suitable for organic farms. Numerous dairy farms already use the bolus technology. Dr. Georg Eckert from ABCERT, a certification institute for organic operators, confirms that bolus technology can be used on organic farms.
Great health monitoring with earliest possible disease detection is particularly interesting for organic farms. The earlier diseases are detected, the easier it is to comply with the considerably stricter regulations concerning medication.
* The services offered by smaXtec do not replace medical diagnoses, medical examinations or treatments of animals. smaXtec does not assume any liability for the detection of diseases or the health management of the herd. Furthermore, smaXtec assumes no liability for the accuracy or interpretation of the measurement results obtained. The user is solely liable for any actions or measures taken as a result of the measurement results. smaXtec excludes all and any liability that could arise in connection with the herd management.
