écho prevention
The official federal prevention system.
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The official system for collecting, processing and distributing prevention Geo-Zones. The canton declares, the federal authority validates, the farmer refines it on the ground, and the public receives the information in the app they already use. One chain, from the ground to the national map.
Deployed at federal level for livestock guardian dogs, écho prevention covers three further domains with the same mechanics. Only the content published and what triggers the Geo-Zone change.
Livestock guardian dogs
The most sensitive encounter for the public. It knows where the dogs are working and how to behave.
Nursing cows
A herd with calves reacts differently. The Geo-Zone warns before entry into the pasture.
Wildlife
Quiet areas, nesting sites, birthing periods. Here prevention protects the animal rather than the human.
Protected flora
Rare sites, fragile habitats. The Geo-Zone asks the public to stay on the trails during flowering, when trampling does the most damage.
écho prevention carries this chain end to end, from the cantonal declaration through to publication on the national mapping portal and in the hiking apps. The platform holds no authority over the data: it collects, processes and distributes, under the control of the federal office which answers for it.
The risk
In the mountains, pastoral activity, wildlife, flora and tourism share the same ground. Without reliable information, an encounter becomes a conflict.
The public does not know it is entering a guarded sector, the farmer does not know where the trails run, and the dog does the work it is there for.
Rare compared with the number of encounters, incidents are still enough to weaken the acceptance of livestock guardian dogs.
The Swiss cheese model
Every safety barrier has holes. As long as they do not line up, the incident does not happen.
Training, awareness, signage: the barriers already exist, each with its weaknesses. The sign does not say whether the animals are there today.
écho prevention adds one more, without replacing the others: the right information, in the right place, at the right time.
One more barrier, not one instead of the others
Everyone gets something out of it
A prevention framework that is imposed always ends up being worked around. This one holds because the public has nothing to do, the farmer gains tools, and the authority keeps control.
The public does nothing
It downloads no prevention app, and never will. The information comes to it, inside the hiking apps it already uses.
It is the only strategy that truly reaches the public. Launching a dedicated app means funding an audience that will not show up.
The farmer gets a lot
Satellite imagery of his pastures, full mapping of his alp, assistance. For those who own GPS trackers, the tracking of their animals comes on top.
And because he is already there, he plays the prevention game. It costs him nothing extra, in time or in money.
The government keeps control
Control over what is published, and over the purpose of the data. It stays their data, and they decide its use and its recipients.
Distribution, on the other hand, is our trade. We run the interfaces, and the country deals with neither infrastructure, nor formats, nor load.
The chain, step by step
One origin, one processing stage, one destination. Nothing is lost on the way and every stage has a named owner.
1
The farmer draws and submits
2
The canton checks compliance and submits to the FOEN
3
The FOEN validates
4
The public is informed
Automatic activation through geo-detection
The mode where the farmer has nothing left to do. The animals themselves tell the system where they are, and the public map follows.
Officially deployed with the Canton of Valais, and privately in other cantons.
Every livestock guardian dog is compatible with the system, whether it falls under a cantonal programme or is privately held.
Are Alpes-éco GPS trackers mandatory?
No. The prevention framework works without any equipment, and automatic activation can rely on position data coming from other systems. The integration terms are set out on the dedicated page.
What the farmer who plays along receives
No connected device is needed. A farmer without a single GPS tracker receives the full set of field tools, in return for his commitment to prevention alone.
The map of his alp
National base maps, satellite view, relief, official hiking trails and closures in force, points of interest and predator reports. He sees his ground and what happens on it, with nothing to install.
High-definition satellite imagery
Five readings of his pastures, processed on our servers: true colour, vigour of the vegetation, false colour, water and vegetation moisture. Enough to judge the grass before going up, and to follow the season week by week.
Heidi, the assistant
Reachable at any time on four themes: predators, climate, herd management, economics. She answers in the farmer's own language.
A single source, easy to integrate
The country does not have to change its tools. The flow plugs into the platforms already in place.
Standard formats of the field
GeoPackage, GeoJSON and KML, in the national coordinate system. No proprietary format, no dependency on our interface.
The system would rather stay silent than say something false
A detection is only accepted after confirmation, and geometries are checked at every stage, from submission through to publication.
Cost, the decisive argument
Covering a whole country the size of Switzerland costs a few thousand francs a year. Not per canton, not per pasture: for the entire territory.
That is what makes national prevention genuinely affordable. The package covers access to the platform, the secure government area, the geo-control system and its calculation engines, the field application with Geo-Zone configuration, and the configurable distribution engine.
One annual cost, with no surprises. No per-zone billing, no hidden tiers, no development to plan for. A system built for governments, simple to deploy and simple to budget.
One cost, nationwide prevention
Designed and developed with the Canton of Valais
