Welcome to the App-écho website
Surveillance, management and prevention for free-range farming.
Swiss leader in free-range herd monitoring, the App-écho is made with farmers, for farmers. We design our trackers and tags ourselves, from the housing to the embedded software, so they last the season and stand up to the alpine pasture. Around them, a multi-screen application and innovations born from several years of research, with a single ambition: to support pastoral activities.
A few devices, one application, an accessible service. You do not buy equipment, you take a service. One contact, one invoice, and we stay responsible for it working, from the sensor through to the analysis.
Designed and manufactured in the Canton of Geneva
The echo of the mountains
The alphorn was the first mountain telecommunication. Our app takes over.
Use conflicts
Climate change
Predation
Workforce
Trackers & Tags
They are what collects the data, in the field, all season long.
Compare
Nothing matches the T-Border, the Kraftleben SatCom, the Kraftleben LoRa. And you have seen nothing yet: the Tracking Prime dominates everything out there.
Sixteen housing formats. One for every animal, one for every use.
| The market | Our entry-level device | Tracking Prime | |
|---|---|---|---|
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1 every 20 to 180 min | 1 every 10 min | 1 every 30 s to 5 min |
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a few months | 8 months | 12 to 24 months |
Depending on the setting chosen.
Indicators
Sending a position is something everyone can do. The App-écho works out what that position means.
VAI, absolute intensity value
The activity status of each animal, in real time.
CEL, locomotor energy cost
The real locomotion effort, over time.
Methods
The others tell you activity is high or low. We tell you what the animal is doing, and whether it is serious.
SPE, at-risk activity
The animal's behaviour, measured against its own and against the herd's.
The judge
A coded method that takes up the file, classifies the event and only alerts on what deserves it.
From the field to the office
Understand everything at a glance, on all three screens.
Three devices, three uses. The phone carries the essentials, what you need in the field. The tablet is the hybrid, the map in large without leaving the chalet. The computer brings the full power, the analysis and the season's history.
All three show the same animals, the same equipment, the same Geo-Zones. You never enter anything twice, and you move from one to the other without losing a thing.
You have a powerful artificial intelligence at hand, Heidi, developed specifically for pastoralism. She supports you day to day in using the application, and above all in the analysis: she reads your data with you and tells you what it means.
An unmatched choice of base maps
Dozens of base maps, from satellite to national map by way of relief. And genuine three-dimensional modules, which very few herd monitoring applications offer today.
Behind it, the same engines as the world's largest mapping platforms, working for your alp.
One glance is enough
On the maps, the colour of each device shows the animal's activity or the equipment's state.
Your animals
Your equipment
Becoming a client
We are not equipment sellers, but service providers. We make the equipment and the applications available to you, according to your need.
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Explore the range
The trackers, tags and services that match your operation.
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Identify yourself
Security pre-registration, then access to the écho space: the catalogue, the prices, and your request.
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Your offer
You receive it by email, accept it, and are notified as soon as your order is processed. The rest is on us.
Eligible countries
Our services are offered in selected countries only.
