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Monday, 11 June 2012

SMS Technology solutions: a solution to stray livestock search in Botswana?


Farmers across the country may start bracing themselves for the release of one of the mobile SMS solutions that may be the answer to their search for lost or stray livestock more especially cattle. A product of 4Site Holdings company, the applications is at an advanced stage and may be released before end of winter season.

 How to use the application

The application is expected to be simple and easy to use such that anyone who is able to write and send a message on a mobile phone will be able to use it.

There we have it fellas! whats your take?



.       First, the farmer type in the keyword "Tshipi" (livestock brand) followed by his brand.
·         In the example above the farmer's brand is "AKZ".

2.       The farmer can now sends the sms to the number that shall be provided. In this example “Server” is just used for test purposes.

The response indicate where the animal ve been impounded, the ear marks, the description and the brand. The farmer can now contact the location (council authorities)



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5 comments:

  1. Victor Kozana Mlalazi12 June 2012 at 04:44

    Hi Simisani

    great job mate. but does govt(matimela) have a database of the animals impounded? i take it you will be tapping into a database right?
    how often is this db updated?

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  2. Unknown12 June 2012 at 08:17

    We have developed a database that shall be updated periodically. We manage everything and all the councils need to do is to fax us the updated lists upon our request. The service shall be run by 4Site not them.

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  3. Unknown14 June 2012 at 05:39

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  4. Unknown14 June 2012 at 05:44

    This is a step in the right direction, but the scope of this solution focuses only on the impounded animals. My desired solution is to have a system which can utilize the GPS technology such that a unit can be attached to the animal and a mobile phone be used to track the location of that unit. Whats your take on that?

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  5. Unknown14 June 2012 at 07:42

    Yes it is true.However the challenges of such real time solutions are that GPS can only work well in open spaces. So its difficult as animals are bound to move around trees. Another problem is with the power source of the signal transmitters. But as you knw technology people never give up!!

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