New Dashboard Feature: Batch Temperature Changes

When it comes to temperature parameter adjustments, Distynct now takes it to a new level. The team is thrilled to introduce the exciting feature of batch temperature changes on the Distynct dashboard. Efficiency is key, and adjusting barns one by one simply doesn’t cut it. Users can choose as many or as few barns as they desire, and with just a single click, their alarm settings will be effortlessly adjusted.

Although this new tool on the Distynct dashboard will make life easier for producers, it reaches far beyond convenience. Our team uncovered that, on average, twelve changes per site are made to parameter changes per month.

Efficiency

Pig farmers know all too well that sites are typically in very rural and sometimes secluded areas. With the average number of twelve changes made to alarm settings per month, the assumption is that a producer is driving to the site twelve times per month–regardless of the distance. Additionally, temperature probes in each barn need to be adjusted individually. Not only is there a dollar behind those drives to the farm, but it also takes an immense amount of time to make adjustments one by one–twelve different times per month. This outdated mode of operation is incredibly inefficient.

Validation

To more efficiently manage their own time, managers might rely on barn workers to make parameter adjustments as requested. The data shows that this request could happen twelve different times per month. Without the Distynct dashboard, there is no way to validate that these changes are happening.

Stewardship

Not only does the ability to digitally adjust parameters improve efficiency and provide validation that it’s being done, it also improves stewardship because animal well being is managed more effectively. For example, when piglets arrive on farm this time of year, it is important that the barn maintains an adequate higher temperature that ultimately allows those young pigs to thrive. The ability to frequently and efficiently adjust alarm thresholds for temperature fluctuations means producers can more easily maintain the ideal barn environment.