We are excited to announce that AgriGates’ co-founder, Daniel Foy, and the AgriGates team have co-written a peer-reviewed article that has been published in animal, The International Journal of Animal Biosciences. Daniel joined a team of researchers with Dr. Cantor’s lab at Penn State University’s Department of Animal Sciences to synthesize original research on wearable dairy cattle sensors, make future recommendations for statistical reporting in this area, and evaluate which validated wearables met validity criteria. We look forward to continuing to help shape the future of animal agriculture, one that is driven by data the continuous improvement in animal welfare.

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Paper title – Review: Establishing precision, bias, and reproducibility standards for dairy cattle behavior sensors

Author: A. Lee a, M. Brause b, D. Foy b, M.C. Cantor

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.animal.2025.101613

Highlights

• Validations studies convey the precision of wearables monitoring behavior in cows.
• Validations inconsistently report precision and bias and lack reproducibility.
• Found 40% of studies (40/101) evaluated precision and 14 met our validity criteria.
• We set recommendations for future validation: Precision, bias, and reproducibility.
• Setting validation criteria improves producer trust of precision livestock farming.

Read the full paper here in animal – Review: Establishing precision, bias, and reproducibility standards for dairy cattle behavior sensors – ScienceDirect