Open systems for
the open range.
Rugged, solar, satellite-connected sensors for the open range—with open data. Reliable readings from places with no power and no coverage, sent wherever you work.
Low-cost · Reliable · Open · Simple
Animals off the grid are hard to study.
Reliable data is the hard part.
There’s no cell and no power out there. Gateways are expensive to install and maintain, satellite tags are pricey and closed, and most systems are hard to scale—so you can only track a few animals at a time, and most of the range goes unmeasured.
Low-cost, reliable, open, and simple to run.
That’s what we built Open Range Systems to fix. One solar tag talks straight to satellite—no towers, no gateways, no closed app—so you can tag a whole herd and get clean data back.
Low-cost
No towers, gateways, or base stations to buy. Affordable solar tags you can put on the whole herd, not just a sample.
Reliable
Solar-powered and rugged, tested on a working ranch. Years in the field with no battery swaps, and fewer gaps in the data.
Open
Your data in open formats—API, webhooks, and export. Use your own tools; no closed app, no lock-in.
Simple
Tag an animal and go. Nothing to install or maintain in the field—simple enough for anyone on the ranch to run.
Location, behavior, and open data from one tag.
Location & Movement
GPS fixes on every animal, sent over satellite—grazing distribution, terrain use, and movement at landscape scale, with no infrastructure in the field.
The spatial data rangeland research runs on.
Behavior & Activity
Accelerometer activity and rest, classified on the tag for alerts—or pull the raw signal to train and validate your own models. You set the sample rate.
Behavior data without recapture.
Open data
Every reading timestamped and exportable—a public API, webhooks, and CSV/Parquet export. Send it to any tool, dashboard, or research pipeline.
Built for analysis and publication.
One solar tag—no collars, no gateways, no base stations. It uses cellular where there’s coverage and satellite where there isn’t, so it keeps reporting from anywhere and the data comes back the same way.How the cattle tag works →
Field-rugged
Solar-powered, years in field
Configurable for your studyCustom electronics and firmware, solar power, and standards-based satellite—not locked to one network—built to run for years in the field.
We test on our own 20,000‑acre ranch in New Mexico.
Every sensor and line of firmware is proven in the same rough, off-grid country it’s built for—real cattle, hard weather, no coverage. It’s also open to research partners as a working field site. If it doesn’t work here, it doesn’t ship.
A research partner, not just a vendor.
We work with rangeland and precision-livestock researchers as a technical partner—contributing the hardware, firmware, open data, and field support, so your team can focus on the science. We co-develop studies and grant proposals, and can be a named partner on USDA NIFA / AFRI, SARE, and SBIR / STTR.
Raw data & API access
Raw GPS and accelerometer, configurable sample rates, bulk export, API keys, and example notebooks.
Configurable for your protocol
Sample rates and tracking tuned to your study design—not a fixed commercial product.
Field deployment & support
We deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot on real rangeland— including our own New Mexico site—so studies stay on schedule.
Grants & co-authorship
We co-write proposals, publish our validation, and contribute as a documented, citable partner.
Use ours, or build your own.
Toward the automated ranch.
The cattle tag is the start. Over time the same open system extends to the rest of the ranch—water, gates, feed, cameras, and eventually drones and robots—all sharing data through the same open interfaces. Reliable, open data is what makes the autonomous ranch possible. Fully autonomous, but never unmanned.
One open system
Every device—tag, gate, water, drone—shares the same open data and interfaces, so the whole ranch works together.
Behavior intelligence
Models that turn raw motion into health, calving, and welfare signals—validated in the field, on open data.
Autonomous machines
Feeding, fencing, and inspection that keep people out of harm’s way—built on open data, not a black box.
Let’s build this together.
Planning a study, scoping a grant, or just need reliable data from remote country? We work with rangeland and precision-livestock researchers as a technical partner—hardware, firmware, open data, and field support. Tell us what you’re working on.