How EasyGain uses continuous weight data from the iDOL 65 Pig Weighing Camera to support feeding strategies, production optimization, and data-driven advisory services.
EasyGain works with advisory services and production optimization in pig production. A key part of their approach is using production data to identify improvement opportunities, evaluate feeding and management strategies, and document the effect of implemented changes.
This makes reliable and continuously available weight data an important part of the decision-making process. The company is run by Bjarne Brixen, who brings extensive hands-on experience from the pig industry. Before becoming an advisor, he worked as a pig producer for 11 years. He has since gained more than 10 years of experience advising pig producers.
Walk-through scales are widely used to monitor pig weight development and can provide accurate weight measurements. However, they require physical space in the pen, ongoing maintenance, and regular cleaning.
For EasyGain, the bigger challenge was access to continuous weight data. Rather than relying on individual or periodic measurements, they wanted to follow growth development over time and use these trends to support faster and better-informed production decisions.
The iDOL 65 Pig Weighing Camera from dol-sensors uses camera technology to automatically monitor pig weight development and growth without physical contact with the animals.
Instead of relying on individual weighings, the solution provides continuous insight into growth development over time.
For companies such as EasyGain – and for OEMs developing management and production systems – this creates an opportunity to combine weight data with other production data and turn it into actionable insights for farmers and advisors.
For EasyGain, camera-based weighing is particularly interesting because of its potential as part of a wider digital production solution.
According to Bjarne Brixen, camera-based solutions represent the future of weight monitoring and have the potential to replace traditional walk-through scales.
By making weight development available digitally, the technology creates new opportunities for integrating weight data into management, advisory, and production systems.
Key reasons include:
According to EasyGain, when accurate weight data is combined with active advisory services, continuous follow-up, and targeted production optimization, the potential economic value can amount to $ 1.5 - 8 per pig.
The value does not come from the weight measurement alone, but from using the data to make better decisions.
Continuous growth data can help create value by supporting optimized feeding, earlier identification of deviations, better resource utilization, and more precise production decisions.
Value can be created through:
An often-overlooked challenge with walk-through scales is cleaning.
“Walk-through scales are exposed daily to manure, urine, and organic material. Even after cleaning, there may be areas where bacteria and pathogens can survive”, says Bjarne.
In production environments with a strong focus on animal health and biosecurity, this can potentially increase the risk of disease transmission between groups and animals.
With the iDOL 65, this issue is eliminated:
The camera system monitors the pigs without becoming part of their daily contact surfaces.
According to Bjarne Brixen from EasyGain, “the greatest value is not necessarily the individual weight measurement, but rather the growth development over time.”
He believes that it is the development in growth that provides the most accurate picture of how the pigs are performing and whether production is moving in the desired direction.
Continuous insights make it possible to respond earlier to changes and create a stronger data foundation for both advisory and management decisions.
Continuous measurements make it possible to:
According to Bjarne Brixen from EasyGain, the greatest value is not necessarily the individual weight measurement, but the development in growth over time.
Continuous growth data makes it possible to see whether production is developing as expected – and to identify changes earlier.
For EasyGain, this creates a stronger foundation for evaluating feeding strategies and management changes. For an OEM or system integrator, it creates an opportunity to add a valuable new data layer to an existing management solution.
Weight data can be used to follow development day by day, document the effect of feed changes, evaluate management changes, and support decisions with objective production data.
This means:
For EasyGain, the value of the iDOL 65 goes beyond automatic weighing. Continuous growth data provides a stronger foundation for evaluating feeding strategies, identifying changes in performance, and supporting recommendations with objective data.
The same data creates new opportunities for OEMs and system integrators. By adding automatic weight data to an existing management or production solution, they can give customers continuous insight into growth development and build weight monitoring into a wider digital solution.
For the pig producer, this means access to growth trends without manual weighing or weighing equipment taking up space in the pen.
One source of weight data can therefore create value throughout the production chain – from the pig house to advisory services and digital management systems.
For companies building the next generation of pig management, feeding, and production solutions, the iDOL 65 offers more than automatic weighing. It provides a continuous source of growth data that can become part of a wider digital solution – helping turn pig weight into actionable customer value.