Nedap Livestock Managementvs
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Allflex Livestock Intelligence: Published per-cow subscription pricing in some markets, which Nedap does not offer
Nedap Livestock Management
CowControl and Velos sensor platform sold almost entirely through OEM partners rather than direct
As of 1 September 2026, Nedap Livestock Management's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Dutch cow and sow monitoring, sold under Nedap's own name and also rebadged inside other manufacturers' systems. Softwr lists it under Agriculture. Nedap Livestock Management is made by Nedap N.V., available on Web, iOS, Android, Windows.
Overview
What Nedap Livestock Management does
Nedap Livestock Management builds individual animal identification and monitoring: CowControl for dairy heat detection, health monitoring and real-time positioning via Smarttag neck and leg sensors, and the Velos platform for pig and sow feeding, sorting and heat detection. The RealTime positioning option locates a specific animal inside the barn on a phone, which is a practical difference in a large loose-housed shed where finding one flagged cow can take twenty minutes. The fact that changes the shortlist is the channel. Nedap sells a substantial share of its technology as OEM components inside other manufacturers' branded systems, so a farmer may already be running Nedap sensors under a different badge without knowing it. That matters because support, firmware timing, pricing and data access all come from the badge on the box rather than from Nedap. Buying the Nedap-branded product directly gets you one relationship; buying it embedded gets you your equipment supplier's interpretation of it. Buyers are commercial dairies and pig units in Europe, North America and Asia, typically via a dealer. Nedap publishes no pricing at all, and the platform is dealer-installed with the barn antennas and readers that make it work. The trade-off is a mature, well-regarded sensor system with an opaque commercial front end, where two farms can pay materially different amounts for the same hardware depending on which distributor quoted it.
What people use it for
- A 500-cow loose-housed dairy where finding a single flagged cow by eye wastes twenty minutes a time
- A sow unit moving to group gestation housing that needs electronic feeding to comply with welfare rules
- A farm that wants heat detection independent of the milking parlour manufacturer
- An equipment maker embedding proven animal monitoring rather than developing sensors in-house
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- Nedap publishes no pricing whatsoever and sells through dealers, so two comparable farms routinely pay materially different amounts for the same sensors and there is no rate card to argue against.
- A large share of the technology ships inside other manufacturers' branded systems, which means the support you get, the firmware version you run and whether you can access the raw data depend on the badge on the box rather than on Nedap.
- The system needs in-barn antennas, readers and a processing unit installed and commissioned, so the sensor price per cow understates the project cost and retrofitting an existing shed adds cabling work.
- Adding RealTime positioning generally requires more antenna infrastructure than basic heat detection, so a farm that starts cheap and wants positioning later faces a second installation rather than a software toggle.
- Nedap N.V. is a listed company with several unrelated divisions and livestock is one segment among retail, healthcare and security, so roadmap priority for agriculture competes with businesses that have nothing to do with farming.
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Pricing
What Nedap Livestock Management costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Nedap CowControl
On request
- Smarttag Neck or Leg sensors per animal
- Barn antennas, readers and processor unit
- Heat, health and rumination applications
- Optional RealTime positioning
- Quoted and installed by regional dealers
Nedap Velos
On request
- Electronic sow feeding and separation
- Heat detection for group housing
- Nedap Now cloud access
- Quoted and installed by regional dealers
Capabilities
Features
Smarttag Neck and Leg
Activity, rumination, eating and lying time per animal, with RealTime positioning on the neck tag
Heat detection
Deviation-based oestrus alerts with an insemination window, validated over decades of field use
Health monitoring
Early flags for transition cow problems and post-treatment recovery tracking
RealTime positioning
Locates an individual animal in the barn on a phone or tablet
Velos sow feeding
Electronic sow feeding, separation and heat detection for group-housed gestation
Automatic sorting
Drives selection gates to route flagged animals out of the herd flow
Nedap Now
Cloud layer giving remote access and alerting on top of the on-farm Velos system
Open OEM platform
Same core technology licensed into other manufacturers' branded monitoring systems
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Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Can I buy Nedap direct?
Usually not. It sells through regional dealers and through OEM partners who rebadge the technology, so your quote and your support both come from an intermediary.
Am I already using Nedap without knowing?
Possibly. Several dairy equipment manufacturers embed Nedap sensing under their own brand names, so check what the tags in your barn actually are before buying a second system.
What does RealTime positioning need?
Additional in-barn antenna coverage beyond what basic heat detection requires, which is why it is cheaper to specify at installation than to add later.
Does it work with my milking parlour?
It integrates with several major parlour and herd management systems, but the depth varies by partner, so confirm the specific combination before ordering.
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