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The technology changing herd health from within

The smaXtec Health Management System empowers dairy farmers to make confident, data driven decisions leading to healthier cows by providing highly precise and unique data straight from the reticulum – data you can’t get anywhere else.

Gain access to valuable information and actionable recommendations to have the best overview of your herd anytime, anywhere.

70 %
up to 70%
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The smaXtec health management
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  • Herd
    Health
    • Earliest possible disease detection
    • Measurement of
      • internal body temperature (± 0.018 °F)
      • Water intake and drinking cycles
      • Rumination via reticulum contractions
      • Activity
    • AI-supported disease indication
  • Reproduction
    • Heat detection including insemination window
    • Calving detection ~15 hours in advance
    • Abortion detection
    • Identification of fertility problems
  • Feeding
    management
    • Feeding tool with ration groups
    • Optimize feeding management
    • Optional: pH value measurement for targeted feeding optimization
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The smaXtec advantage

 

Driving success through internal insights.

 

  • Optimal performance
  • Leveraging the power of prevention
  • Unrivaled technology
  • Optimize reproduction
  • Feeding at a glance
  • Improved transition management
  • Higher efficiency
  • Professional advisory
  • Fit for any farm
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  • Optimal performance
  • Leveraging the power of prevention
  • Unrivaled technology
  • Optimize reproduction
  • Feeding at a glance
  • Improved transition management
  • Higher efficiency
  • Professional advisory
  • Fit for any farm
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Optimal Performance

smaXtec's continuous monitoring provides actionable insights to enhance herd health, reproduction and feeding efficiency, leading to higher milk yield and improved herd longevity.

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About the smaXtec system
Leveraging the power of prevention

smaXtec helps you turn reaction into prevention. Catch diseases days before symptoms appear and act earlier, reducing treatment costs by up to 70%. From milk fever and ketosis to mastitis or pneumonia, smaXtec empowers you to treat issues as early as possible and keep your cows healthy.

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Unrivaled technology

smaXtec is the only system that measures the gold standard for health management: internal body temperature. Combined with other key parameters plus continuous innovation, the system provides the most precise, comprehensive insight into your herd's health.

The system infrastructure takes minutes to install, and our user-friendly software, available on smartphone and PC, makes herd data accessible 24/7 and is continuously updated, with improvements immediately available to users.

The unique smaXtec bolus
Optimize reproduction


smaXtec takes reproduction management to the next level. Reliable heat detection with insemination timing window recommendations helps boost reproductive succes.

Receive alerts ~ 15 hours before calving allowing time to move animals, provide preventative care and intervene if needed. Continuous monitoring from within enables the early detection of potential problems, like diseases, abortions or fertility issues, helping ensure a healthier transition period.

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Feeding at a glance

Feed contamination, poor feed quality and feeding errors can be life threatening for cows. With rumination data directly from the reticulum, you can immediately detect many types of changes or problems related to feeding. The smaXtec feeding tool gives you a perfect overview of your feeding groups.

For targeted optimization of feeding, check out the smaXtec pH bolus.

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Improved transition management

The transition phase is crucial for a 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 has the best possible start to her lactation.

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Higher efficiency

smaXtec provides actionable insights so you can plan efficiently, react as early as possible and save valuable time. The system allows you to focus on the cows that need attention while structured task lists tailored to your management, found in the smaXtec Digital Assistant, simplify your routine.   

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Professional advisory

You’re never on your own with smaXtec. From your first conversation through everyday farm use, our local team of experts are here to help every step of the way. With tailored support, local events, webinars and the digital smaXtec Academy, we empower you to deepen your expertise and continuously optimize herd management.

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Fit for any farm

No matter your farm size or set up, smaXtec is ready to help you take your herd to the next level. With precise data, early insights and proven results, smaXtec empowers you to work proactively and improve herd health for a profitable and sustainable future. 

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smaXtec's unique bolus technology measures:
  • Internal body temperature
  • Water intake
  • Rumination
  • Activity
  • Rumen pH
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Internal body temperature

The first sign of a developing disease is typically a change in body temperature. Located in the reticulum, the smaXtec bolus can measure the slightest changes in temperature (±0.018 °F accuracy), long before visible symptoms appear. This gives you time to intervene early and limit clinical disease progression.

Holstein cows eating in the barn
Holstein cows eating in the barn
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Water intake

There’s no milk without water. smaXtec is the only system that measures individual water intake and drinking cycles, showing you how often and how much your cows are drinking. This helps you monitor drinking behavior and ensure an optimal water supply to support high milk yields.  

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Drinking cow in a stable
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Rumination

Rumination behavior provides insight into animal health and feeding. By measuring directly in the reticulum, smaXtec delivers precise data for informed feeding decisions. Combined with internal temperature, smaXtec enables the earliest possible disease detection so you can catch health problems before performance is affected.

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Lying cows in a stable that ruminate
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Activity

Activity monitoring is an important parameter that helps detect heats accurately and spot problems, like lameness, early, helping you ensure your cows remain healthy, become pregnant and stay in the herd longer.

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cows in heat
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Rumen pH

The pH value in the rumen is a key factor for your cows’ digestion and health. Unlike rumination activity, it is almost exclusively influenced by feed management, making it the best parameter to evaluate and optimize feeding. Only smaXtec offers continuous monitoring directly inside the animal with the unique pH bolus.

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Holstein cows eating in the barn
smaXtec News
News fromthe company
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Upcoming Events

Keystone Farm Show
January 6–8, 2026, York, PA

First District Association Winter Conference
January 9–10, 2026, St. Cloud, MN

Georgia Dairy Conference
January 19–21, 2026, Savannah, GA

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Study confirms: Bird flu detected with smaXtec one week earlier

A newly published study confirms: smaXtec detects bird flu (HPAI) in dairy cows up to seven days before symptoms appear. This early warning can help prevent severe health effects and massive financial losses, as seen on a 500-cow dairy in Michigan. Learn how smaXtec gives producers a crucial head start in managing disease outbreaks and protecting herd health.

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smaXtec turns employees into owners

smaXtec stands for more than bolus technology, data and healthy cows – it represents progress, fairness, and participation. With its new initiative OwnX, the company is launching an employee ownership program that allows everyone to directly share in its success.

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With video insights

Brand-new Success Story from the US

Read how Elizabeth Elsinger, co-owner and main herdsman at D Gaul Farms in Peosta, Iowa manages the 500 cow herd with the smaXtec health management system. She shares how early health alerts, reduced treatment costs, and improved reproduction results have made smaXtec an essential part of daily life

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Feeding and pH Specialist at smaXtec Louisa Koch

Interview with smaXtec Feeding and pH Specialist

Louisa Koch is a feeding and pH specialist at smaXtec. She supports numerous farmers in improving their feeding management and unlocking hidden potential on their farms. In an interview, she shares how consulting works at smaXtec, the role pH measurement in the process, and the benefits it brings to our customers.

 

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7 Ways smaXtec Makes Your Farm More Profitable

Discover 7 ways smaXtec optimizes your dairy farming: for higher milk yield, lower costs & greater efficiency.

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Success stories from our customers around the world

smaXtec has already made countless dairy operations more successful! Find out what our customers appreciate about smaXtec.

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Our pregnancy rate – it’s now shooting for 30% in just the last two and a half years.

Elizabeth Elsinger
US, 600 cows
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Now with the system, we can also see for each individual animal whether it is doing well or not.

Agrarprodukte Dedelow GmbH
Deutschland, 2650 cows
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smaXtec has really helped us up our game in animal health.

Nathan Brearley
US, 800 cows
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It’s a sensible, smart investment. smaXtec is truly worth its weight in gold!

Agraset Agrargenossenschaft eG
Deutschland, 950 cows
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smaXtec is an all-round system, and I am fascinated by what this little device can do.

Agrargenossenschaft eG Tucheim
Deutschland, 1100 cows
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I personally think that smaXtec is second to none when it comes to heat detection and cow health.

Dreamcatcher Dairy
US, 2080 cows
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One of the biggest benefits to having the calving alerts is the amount of straw I am saving in the pre-fresh pens. We are using 60-70% less straw by simply moving cows into the pen once the system provides the calving notification.

Ryan Schleis
US, 550 cows
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We recently analyzed our cull rates for our dairy, comparing our last year before investing in smaXtec in 2021 with this past year (2023). With smaXtec, we are seeing a 7.8 ROI just from the improvements on cull rates.

 

Amber Horn-Leiterman
US, 2100 cows
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We’ve been able to identify mastitis or ketosis in the cows before the staff members can actually visibly see the symptoms in the parlor. Being able to identify that, has been really helpful.

Natasha Sutherland
US, 1225 cows
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Using the smaXtec system has allowed us to empower our employees to learn how to go about properly diagnosing cows.

Joy Widerman
US, 1300 cows
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We started with a pregnancy rate that met our goals. Adding the smaXtec heat detection capabilities lowered our days open and repro cull rate even lower.

 

Central Manor
US, 200 cows
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It has been much easier to deal with cows having a tough transition after freshening by getting ahead of the symptoms and being able to use more natural remedies for things instead of antibiotics.
Sheldon Luehmann
US, 125 cows
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Temperature is key to catching mastitis early. I use more probiotics and aspirin now at that first temperature alert and can see the results almost instantly through the constant monitoring provided by smaXtec.
Nathan Radue
US, 250 cows
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Before using the smaXtec system, we had consistently been running at 100,000 SCC, and after 6 months, we now run 80,000 SCC.

Ron Dawydko
US, 300 cows
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The smaXtec features of tracking core body temperature and the calving alerts make me feel like we’re at the next level of cow monitoring for extra assurance that we’re not going to leave any cow behind.
Chad Butts
US, 800 cows
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The heat detection component is so helpful, as are the calving alerts and rumination monitoring. It’s like having eyes on each of your cows on a full-time basis.
Jason Kline
US, 190 cows
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Prior to using smaXtec, we did 90 % of our breeding with Ovsynch protocol and maybe 10 % were natural observed standing heat. With the smaXtec system in place, we are now breeding only 10 % on shot protocols.
Hurtgenlea Holsteins
US, 160 cows
The smaXtec App
Insights at your fingertips

Access your herd data anytime, anywhere on your phone or PC using our browser-based smaXtec Web or the smaXtec App.  

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The technology behind it
How the smaXtec system works
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smaXtec boluses measure internal body temperature, water intake and drinking cycles, rumination and activity levels, as well as, pH (optional) in the reticulum.
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The base station automatically reads out the data from the boluses. The climate sensor provides additional information on the outside temperature and humidity.
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The collected data is analyzed using artificial intelligence and established algorithms within the smaXtec Cloud TruD®.
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Access your herd data and digital assistant via smartphone or PC, and decide which notifications you would like to receive instantly via push message.
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The smaXtec Customer Support team is always ready to provide you with expert advice, over the phone and in person, empowering you to take the right action at the right time.

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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Awards & Prizes
Successful together

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.

Commended for Cream Award for Innovation 2025
Commended for Cream Award for Innovation 2025
LAMMA Dairy Innovation of the Year 2025
LAMMA Dairy Innovation of the Year 2025
Royal Dairy Innovation Award 2023
Royal Dairy Innovation Award 2023
EY Scale-Up Award
EY Scale-Up Award
Agrarfuchs 2020
Agrarfuchs 2020
DLG Innovations Commission
DLG Innovations Commission
Primus 2018
Primus 2018
Hofgenie 2018
Hofgenie 2018
AgraME Award 2013
AgraME Award 2013
EuroTier 2010
EuroTier 2010
Inel D'Or 2010
Inel D'Or 2010
FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

We know collaboration is key! smaXtec offers integrations with most of the commonly used herd management programs. Find more information here.

Absolutely! Our customers who use robots report that the smaXtec system becomes another set of eyes on their herd 24/7. The system provides detailed insight into cow health, including internal body temperature, that allows farmers, who no longer see the animal in the parlor every day, a way to catch health problems before milk production changes.  

In addition, smaXtec provides further vital information like precise heat alerts, including a recommended insemination time, and reliable calving detection helping you make timely, well-informed management decisions.

Many farmers use smaXtec on pasture. To ensure success, we developed a specific algorithm for accurate heat detection on pasture while health and feeding measurements continue as normal. We offer tailored solutions depending on how long your cows are on pasture.

Yes, the smaXtec boluses are safe for your cows. Animal safety is our top priority. We carefully developed the technology in partnership with veterinarians and technical experts to ensure it is safe. The bolus complies with all necessary standards and is certified rumen fluid resistant by the DLG (German Agricultural Association). Find more information about the safety of the smaXtec system here.

Yes, smaXtec is ideal for organic farms and is already in use on many certified dairies. Dr. Georg Eckert from ABCERT, a certification institute for organic producers, confirms in this interview that bolus technology can be used on organic farms. 

The bolus remains inside the cow for her lifetime. It stays in the reticulum because of its weight and is neither ruminated nor digested. 
We would be happy to walk you through the system live or connect you with one of our customers! Connect with your local smaXtec expert here.

* 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.