Automatic Animal Weight Measurement
SmartScale uses RFID technology to automatically capture individual animal weights, accurately tracking weight and weight change over time. This data forms the foundation of performance and efficiency analysis, helping identify which animals gain weight most efficiently.
Automatic Weight Capture
SmartScale records individual animal weights automatically — no manual handling, no extra chute work. Simply set up the scales, let your animals do what they do, and start receiving accurate daily weight data
Daily Weights for Better Management
SmartScale delivers daily individual weights so you can track growth rates, identify underperformers, and make confident management decisions around feeding, sorting, and marketing — all backed by real data.
Early Health & Stress Detection
Unexpected weight loss is often the first sign something is wrong. SmartScale flags unusual changes in an animal's weight trend, helping you catch health issues, nutritional gaps, or stress events early, before they impact your bottom line.
Individual Animal Insights
Individual-level weight tracking gives you a complete performance picture across your operation, so you can reward your best genetics, cull with confidence, and manage each animal with precision.
The Problem
Body weight is a key indicator of animal health and performance, yet it is rarely measured at the individual level in group settings more than once or twice. Traditional weighing methods are labor-intensive and infrequent, leaving producers and researchers without the consistent data needed to detect variation between animals or make timely management and nutrition decisions.
The Solution
SmartScale delivers daily, automated, individual-level weight monitoring for group-housed cattle. Using RFID identification, the system logs every weigh-in and records accurate weights for each animal, giving producers and researchers reliable daily data to support performance tracking, feed efficiency analysis, and health monitoring.
How SmartScale Works
- Place scale in front of food or water source
- Animal approaches and RFID tag is identified
- The steps on the scale and weight recording starts
- Animal exits scale area, data recording is stopped
- Weight data is transmitted to C-Lock
- Data is reviewed and processed by C-Lock Data Team
- Weight data is delivered to C-Lock customer
Data Delivered
SmartScale records every weigh-in interaction and converts these measurements into structured datasets delivered to users. Final data gives simple, clear insights into the following individual animal statistics:
- Daily weight per animal
- Visit frequency
- Weigh-in event duration
- Weight over time
- Weight gain/loss trends
- Summarized weight statistics
Applications
Feed Efficiency & Profitability
When paired with SmartFeed, SmartScale connects weight gain with feed intake data to identify your most feed-efficient animals and drive more profitable management decisions.
Ration & Nutrition Management
Track how individual animals respond to ration changes over time and use real weight data to refine your feeding program with confidence.
Early Health Detection
Identify unexpected weight loss or stalled gain that may indicate illness, stress, or nutritional issues, enabling earlier intervention and improved animal outcomes.
Weight & Growth Monitoring
Track individual daily weights to understand growth trends and ensure animals are performing to expectations across your herd.
Features
Simple User Interface
Log in to our secure and user-friendly interface to see real time data or generate reports. No extra software to purchase or to load onto resident computers.
Animal Performance Metrics
SmartScale provides individual real-time animal weight and performance at your finger tips.
Data Management/ Connectivity
All raw and processed data is accessible in a secure archive with a simple online interface. Data is transmitted wirelessly with WiFi or cellular network.
State of the Art RFID Reader
SmartScale can be operated in “noisy” RFID environments without complications and work with any low-frequency RFID tag.
Customizable & Flexible
Designed to fit your existing water source. Can be used in virtually any production setting.
Product Options
Solar Power
For remote applications, a solar power kit can be added
to each unit. The kit includes one solar panel, frame,
batteries, and a battery control box.
Ear Tags
All of our units read HDX - Half Duplex and FDX
- Full Duplex tags. If your animals are not tagged
appropriately, you may purchase tags at any time from
C-Lock Inc.
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