Gemini - Double Box System
Milking Between the Rear Legs: Attachment is done between the rear legs as in a side-by-side milking parlour. The cow is relaxed and comfortable and has no visual distraction from the moving robotarm. The cow can therefore be milked properly, completely and maintains her normal routine.
OPTIMAL UDDER PREPARATION
Each teat is individually prepared for milking in a special pre-milk teat cup. This process focuses on optimal teat cleaning, teat stimulation, pre-milking and maximum oxytocin production for the best milk release. When preparation is complete, the milking cups are attached and milking starts immediately. The whole preparation process takes 60-90 seconds, as long as the cow needs to have a good oxytocin release and a good milk let-down.
UNOBSTURCTED VIEW AND HERD CONTACT
Thanks to the milking robot’s open design, the cow has a unobstructed view, giving her the feeling that she is still with the herd. This experience is even more enhanced in a double box system where cows stand freely but are still next to each other.
INDIVIDUAL QUARTER MEASUREMENT
The milk from each individual teat is screened and analysed and the data is directly available to the dairy farmer’s mobile devices, providing useful insights on milk quality and cow health. This allows for better follow-up and optimisation of overall cow management.
SAFE AND CONVENIENT
Because of milk between the rear legs, you have a safe and convenient way to manually attach or handle the cows only in exceptional situation when needed. The robust stainless steel system and milking between rear legs minimises the cows ability to kick against you or the machine parts.
DUALFIT: FETCH TWO TEAT CUPS AT ONCE
The milking robots are equipped with a unique dual attachment functionality; an intelligently designed mechanical head that allows the robotarm to fetch two teat cups at once resulting in efficient arm movement. By reducing the arm movement, this double grabber increases the cow throughput and maximizes box performance.
SAC ADVANCES INTERFACE
The software technology in the Gemini is extremely userfriendly. There is a wealth of information and functions available to you for making herd management decisions. This allows you to troubleshoot issues very effectively and easily. You have multiple ways to access and manage information: computer, smartphone, tablet as well as at the robot itself via a multi-functional touchscreen. All the important information you need can be accessed via this large, robust touchscreen which is installed on the robot. Both the computer and the touchscreen are equipped with powerful processors to automate functions and access key data.
TIME-OF-FLIGHT CAMERA
With the cameras time-of-flight technology, the exact teat position can be determined. Thanks to this advanced technology, our milking robots achieve the best connection results. A 3D analysis of the teats is carried out, making the location even more accurate. The waterproof stainless steel 3D camera has a flat front for easy cleaning.
TEAT TEACH SCREEN
The Teat Teach Screen brings the image of the udder on the screen. The operator can simply touch the teat ends of the image to ‘teach’ the camera where that cows teats are. This can be done for cows that have difficult teat placement. The robot will then remember the location of the teats when the cow comes back into the box, and make the attachment process much more efficient.
UPGRADABLE BY EQUIPMENT AND SOFTWARE
The Gemini is easily upgradable by equipment and software. Since technological evolution in robot milking has sped up exponentially, you as a forward-thinking dairy farmer can easily follow-up on the latest innovations in your robot. This is not the norm in the industry but it is our company phylosophy and is quite an advantage.
USER-FRIENDLY, EASY TO OPERATE BY ANYONE
SAC’s milking robot is easy to operate. As it is user-friendly, you can easily hand over the management to another trained operator, saving yourself a great deal of time. Do you need extra time to focus on something else? Would you like spending time with your family or to enjoy a relaxing holiday? Don’t worry, when you need time for other things, almost anyone can be trained to properly operate the robot and take over when needed.
REALTIME HEALTH MONITORING AND GPS LOCALIZATION
With SAC Unitrack you have a valuable device to locate and monitor your cows in real time. Heat, rumination, eating time and activity is measured 24 hours a day. Cow Positioning accurately tracks and shows the current position of individual or multiple cows on your barn floor plan with one click on your computer, smartphone or tablet. Coupled with the HerdMetrix™ phone app, the data are accessible anywhere so that you have a constant stream of information. Customized for you to help with Heat Detection, Health monitoring and Herd performance trends.