Sheep rustling
Livestock theft from remote fields costs farmers dearly; rustlers arrive with a trailer, work the flock with a dog and are gone within the hour.
No alert — flock grazing peacefully, nothing unusual.
Nothing wakes. Only the nanopower domain and the PIR are drawing.
The grazing flock and passing wildlife are part of the normal baseline and cleared locally. People in the field are escalated, and Gen AI distinguishes the farmer with a sheepdog from strangers with a vehicle and trailer backed to the gate loading sheep, alerting on rustling.
- Wake
- PIR wakes the camera; radar confirms a person- or vehicle-sized target at the gate
- Schedule
- Timed capture at dawn and dusk for a flock record. Heartbeat every 24 hours. IR at night.
- On the camera
- Radar drops the sheep themselves and passing wildlife by size and distance. Edge AI drops frames with no person or vehicle.
- Your criterion
Is anyone in the field with the sheep? Is it the farmer with a dog, or are strangers with a vehicle or trailer moving sheep?
Written in plain English. The model reads every escalated frame against it.- Alert rule
ai.sheep_being_loaded OR (ai.trailer_at_gate AND ai.person_present) · no hold-off · acknowledgement required- Who is told
- SMS and push to the farmer; push to the rural crime team.
- Evidence kept
- Escalated frames kept; the farmer's own visits logged without alert.
MachairanowPickup with a livestock trailer backed to the open gate, two men herding sheep up the ramp, a dog driving the flock.
A readable account of what triggered it, with the frame attached. No feed to watch, no captures to trawl through.
Jeremy Clarkson: 11 sheep stolen from Diddly Squat, discovered only at a flock count (September 2026)