Danish start-up Innotech Vision presents AI-based livestock barn monitoring at EuroTier 2026

The company's founder and director, Professor Thomas Banhazi, explained that the aim is for farmers to make decisions based on data rather than intuition. "We want to ensure that farmers are not making decisions based on gut feeling, on 'that's how my grandfather did it', but use real data," he said.

The system measures environmental and health-related parameters and feeds them into the EDMS software platform for automated data management and analysis, which produces actionable recommendations for the farmer. The Weight Detect module uses a camera installed above the animals to predict their weight from body shape; according to Banhazi, the margin of error is around 3% in pigs. The Enviro Detect module continuously monitors barn climate and emission levels. "If farmers are doing the right thing, they can objectively show their emission levels and protect themselves from unfair accusations," Banhazi said. The company also assesses animals' lungs at the slaughterhouse straight after slaughter, providing information on respiratory disease, which has a major impact on productivity.

Banhazi said the idea of automation first came to him in the 1990s, when he carried out manual animal health inspections as a researcher. Such inspections, he said, are labour-intensive, expensive and unreliable, and advances in image analysis and AI made it possible to automate them and make them continuous. "I'm not the standard academic interested in publications. I want to turn decades of research into useful technologies," he said.

The company is based in Tjele, Denmark.