- Ian is, we call an estanciero.
His family owns a big piece of land.
They use 1/4 of that big land for farming --
they have Merino sheep, and the rest is for conservation.
- Patagonia is very fragile --
ranching, raising animals can create a lot of damage
if you do it the wrong way.
So, Olten is a project that we started with Javiera,
my family, my brother, my mother, and me.
- In a barbecue with Ian in his estancia --
super friendly Saturday night with his mom,
and he's like, "So, we got a problem."
like, "Okay, yeah we lose sheep."
We lose sheep and take so long to look for them, days.
We sometimes are looking for three sheeps for two weeks.
So, how we can know where they are?
- If you know where they are,
you have all that data, you can analyze it,
and you can know where they are sleeping, eating, drinking,
where they are walking their trails.
Then, you can also know where they are staying for too long.
If there's a grass that they like, they will stay there,
and then they will overgraze that part.
If you know that, maybe you can isolate that place,
and they can graze around.
And then you put them there when you control them.
- We live in Chile, here --
that's why I started with open source situation
We can build everything from here --
you don't need to buy sensors to France and
if they're broken, nobody's gonna fix them
because they will lose their guarantee.
I have problems like that and sometimes --
I can go there, open the things,
solder -- what is whatever the mice ate, put it back,
and you continue getting your data.
The sensor, basically what it does,
it communicates remotely, and what it got
is like a radio frequency; we have a GPS sensor,
where we're gonna know where the sheep are;
and also we got the accelerometer, that is the one
that will tell us in which position this sensor is.
Every time we put it in the neck of the sheep,
this will have a rate that we know when it's walking,
when it's eating, or when it's sleeping.
And this will be -- fit in a collar.
- The strap. - The straps.
We're gonna put it back and then have to fit
in this part of the sheep, so that's why --
how we know the position where my accelerometer is.
And we can discover how -- the behavior of the sheep.
Also, we build a software that we check how,
like the state of the sheep by watching,
so we can discover and actually validate what is going on
through the sensor, a human vision,
and we are also putting cameras
to the sheep that we are prototyping,
so we know exactly what is going on.
So in the end, it's where they're eating,
where they're sleeping, and how they're moving,
so I know where they are and what they are doing.
Where they are --
There are many, plenty of GPS collars around the world.
What they are doing where they are
is what we are doing differently here.
- I think Olten will have a lot of benefits
as a rancher and for the land, too.
So, basically, what it will do will help you manage
the animals better, right, so they don't overgraze,
they don't cause all these effects.
Also has some benefits on the health of the animal
that we can basically take better care of the animal
because we know where they are.
- Taking care of the grass, taking care of the animal,
we can make this business as sustainable as possible.