PLD unifies real-time data from over seven leading sensor brands, filters out unnecessary details, and delivers the most important insights through simple, intuitive dashboards.
Built for scalability, the platform enables organizations to monitor swine groups across multiple barns and locations, providing real-time visibility into inventory health and barn conditions. Farmers can review historical data, benchmark against ideal performance, and receive instant alerts for power interruptions or sensor outages.
A robust notification system ensures rapid response to critical changes, triggering email alerts whenever temperature, humidity, water, or feed consumption readings fall outside defined thresholds.
PLD is a Canadian software company focused on connecting all swine barn controllers, meters, and sensors, giving farmers better insight into their barns.
They are dedicated to helping swine producers across the industry make smarter and more profitable decisions, whether they run nurseries, finishers, sows, farrow-to-finish, or wean-to-finish operations. By combining expertise from veterinary services and sensor manufacturers, PLD is uniquely positioned to deliver this solution.
With their use case and opportunity clearly defined, PLD turned to Tandem not only to design, develop, and maintain their software platform, but also to consult and translate their vision into detailed technical requirements. Their project called for an experienced software team capable of managing multiple third-party integrations and ensuring the platform delivered on its promise.
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Sensor Types Integrated
Sensor integrations for temperature. humidity, electricity, water metering, bin scales, and many more expand customer market opportunities for the platform
21M+
Sensor Data Points
Used to generate machine learning model insights on key environmental and health factors to improve animal wellbeing and reduce negative health events in the barn.
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Real-time Insight Alerts
Generated insights alert operators in real time of irregularities in areas such as feed consumption, water consumption, and heat stress, allowing for early intervention.
The PLD team needed an integrated system that could unify data from multiple, incompatible sensor APIs and turn it into actionable insights for improving swine health. Different sensor brands conceptualized barns in unique ways, making data standardization essential.
Our discovery phase focused on understanding veterinary priorities - identifying key metrics like temperature, humidity, and feed or water consumption - and setting thresholds based on expert guidance.
This groundwork ensured the platform could bridge the gap between veterinary best practices and sensor capabilities, delivering a tool that helps producers make informed, health-driven decisions.
Key discovery tasks included:
Requirements Gathering
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Technical Research
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Automating Processes
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Development Plan Creation
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Tandem built a unified livestock monitoring platform that standardizes data from multiple sensors and delivers real-time insights. We continue to enhance the system with advanced alerting, health benchmarks, and expanded integrations to help farmers maintain optimal conditions.
Streamlined organization registration process with clearly defined required fields
Sensitive banking and SIN data stored securely with restricted access
Claims progress tracking through multiple stages from submission to approval
Email alerts to automatically notify users of status updates and new comments
Built-in commenting system to allow users and staff to communicate on claims
Full bilingual support for both English and French users
Multi-tenant system with granular permissions tailored for each user role
Google Maps integration to enable location-based claim input and review
Timestamped file uploads to validate receipts and uploaded documents
Admin tools which provide a detailed history of each applicant’s journey
Program-wide budget tracking to help monitor funding across all claims
CSV exports of formatted claim data for use in external systems and reporting
Digital signing to allow for faster approval and reduce administrative delays
Downloadable pre-filled tax forms based on submitted claim information
Real-time data dashboards tracking key data points for pig health and barn conditions
Filtering and standardization of sensor data to uncover the signal in the noise
API integrations from multiple sensor brands measuring a wide range of conditions and metrics
Instant email notifications to alert farmers of pig heat-stress and equipment outages
Comprehensive reports on pig development compared to ideal growth rates
Backfilling data after outages in order to maintain complete records on each group
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