Huntaway Sentinel keeps watch over sheep flocks the way a sentinel animal does: most of the mob wears a cheap Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) accelerometer ear tag, a handful wear GPS “sentinel” collars, and everything relays over a LoRa mesh to the cloud. Behaviour ML turns the raw accelerometry into grazing, rumination and welfare signals — and only speaks up when something is wrong: a cast ewe, a distress beacon, an animal drifting away from the mob.
The Sentinel dashboard: live farm map with sentinel and ear-tag overlays, open-alert counts and the needs-attention list

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How it works

1

Tag the flock

Every ewe gets a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) accelerometer ear tag; roughly one in ten to twenty animals carries a GPS sentinel collar that anchors the mob’s position and bridges the tags to the LoRa mesh.
2

Telemetry flows in

Devices publish over secure telemetry protocols; the ingest service translates each message (per-breed and per-hardware settings applied), classifies behaviour, and lands it all in the database in real time.
3

Sentinel watches

The live map, activity budgets and mob-cohesion analytics update continuously. Welfare rules raise alerts — cast ewe, distress, isolation, geofence exit, low battery.
4

You (or a drone) respond

Acknowledge and resolve alerts with an outcome record, or let the Alert Manager call a webhook and launch a drone response flight to put eyes on the animal.

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What’s in the app

Live dashboard

Farm map with sentinel positions, ear-tag presence, boundary and field overlays, and the alerts that need attention.

Alerts

Every welfare event with its history, automated actions taken, and a guided resolve flow that records what you found.

Analytics

Activity budgets, an animal watchlist, mob cohesion, grazing pressure, welfare-event trends and drone-ops reporting.

Animals & devices

The flock register, self-registering devices, and the links between animal, tag and breed that tune the behaviour model.

Drone missions

Plan waypoint missions on the map, fly them (simulated today, dock-ready tomorrow), and export DJI KMZ / KML waylines.

Simulator

A synthetic flock that publishes the real telemetry contract — demo the whole platform, cast ewe included, without hardware.

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Two audiences, two sections

These docs are split to match the app’s roles:
  • The User Guide (this tab) covers everything an organisation Member can do: monitoring, alerts, analytics, flying missions and managing their own account.
  • The Administration tab covers what an org Admin does: farms and boundaries, members and billing, breeds, tag profiles, the ingest service and alert automation.

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Start here

Core concepts

Sentinels, ear tags, farms, alerts and entitlements — the vocabulary the rest of these docs assumes.

Sign in and find your way around

Create your account, join your organisation and learn the app shell.

Set up a farm

Admins: create the farm, draw the boundary, arm the geofence.

Automate responses

Admins: webhooks and drone response flights, fired the moment an alert lands.