Run your whole operation from one screen.
VirtualFence replaces miles of barbed wire with smart collars, satellite-grade connectivity, and a single platform that puts every paddock, every animal, and every decision a tap away — from the ute, the kitchen, or 5,000 km away.
Hectares managed
Collar uptime in the field
Average herd training time
✦ THE SHIFT
Fences cost more than the land they protect.
A working operation was never meant to be defined by where the wire happens to run. VirtualFence redraws the line — without anyone holding a post-driver.
WITHOUT VIRTUALFENCE
Miles of wire. A skeleton crew. A guess at where the herd is.
- 30+ hours a week lost to fence repair, line riding and boundary disputes.
- Paddocks too big to graze well — and far too rigid to rotate when the season turns.
- No visibility after dark, after a storm, or anywhere the road won't go.
- Calving and lambing seasons measured in checks, not in sleep.
WITHOUT VIRTUALFENCE
Boundaries you can move in seconds. A herd you can see, always.
- Redraw a paddock in thirty seconds — from the front seat or the kitchen table.
- Rotational grazing on autopilot, matched to grass cover and ground condition.
- Every animal accounted for — location, behaviour and health, day and night.
- Calving and lambing alerts on your phone — sleep finally back on the schedule.
✦ HOW IT WORKS
From first collar to fully grazing — in under a week.
No new fence to build. No new infrastructure to lay. Four steps, one platform, and a herd that learns its boundaries in days, not seasons.
01
Fit the collar
Solar-powered, ruminant-safe, designed for cattle, sheep or mixed mobs. A trained installer or your own crew can handle the whole herd in an afternoon.
DAY 1 · 4–6 HRS FOR A 1,000-HEAD MOB
02
Draw your boundaries
Trace paddocks on the satellite map with your finger. Save them, share them, reshape them as the season changes — no posts, no pliers, no holes.
DAY 1–2 · MINUTES PER PADDOCK
03
The herd learns the line
An audible cue precedes a gentle deterrent — the same way livestock already learn electric fences, but kinder and faster. Most herds settle inside three days.
DAY 2–3 · WELFARE-FIRST TRAINING
04
Run it from anywhere
Live map, health flags, pasture utilisation and rotation playbooks — all on one platform. Set rules once and let VirtualFence move animals through the season.
ONGOING · WEB, iOS AND ANDROID
✦ SOLUTIONS
Built around the animal — not the other way around.
Two collar families, one platform. Each trained on years of behavioural data from the species, the terrain and the operation it’s running on.
HILL · LOWLAND · MIXED GRAZING
VirtualFence for sheep
Built for hills, hedges and lambing seasons. Predator zones, flock dispersal mapping and terrain-aware grazing — even where cellular has never reached.
HILL · LOWLAND · MIXED GRAZING
VirtualFence for cattle
Standard herding for beef, dairy and regenerative operations. Heat detection, calving alerts, and pasture utilisation that turns every paddock into a measurable asset.
✦ TECHNOLOGY
Built to work where the road runs out.
Most virtual-fence platforms work brilliantly in a slide deck. VirtualFence is engineered for the back paddock — and proven in country where cellular doesn’t reach.
CONNECTIVITY
Direct-to-satellite. Works where cellular can't.
A dual-mode radio reaches LEO satellites within seconds of a fault, then hands back to LTE the moment you’re in range — without you ever knowing.
POSITIONING
· sub-metre
Multi-constellation GPS
GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou — fused for boundary-grade precision.
POWER
· 82% · 11h sun
Solar collar, season-long charge
WELFARE
· audited
Trained, not punished.
Audio cue first, then a gentle deterrent — designed with veterinary ethologists.
CONNECTIVITY
· dual-mode · auto-switching
Works where cellular can't.
LTE when it’s there, direct-to-satellite when it isn’t — the collar picks the best available link automatically.
HEALTH
· 91% accuracy · live alerts
Sees what the eye misses.
Heat cycles, lameness, calving — surfaced 12 to 48 hours before they’re visible from the truck.
✦ WHY VIRTUALFENCE
A platform you can trust to run alongside your operation — not above it.
There’s no shortage of collars on the market. What sets VirtualFence apart is the discipline of how each one is built, deployed, and supported.
Built by people who run land
VirtualFence was founded on a working operation, not in a lab. The decisions that matter — collar weight, battery longevity, alert thresholds — are made by people who’ve spent the season in the saddle.
Welfare-first, peer-reviewed
Our training protocol has been independently audited and published in two peer-reviewed welfare journals. Every signal, every threshold, every escalation — documented and defensible.
Built by people who run land
LTE-M, NB-IoT, LoRa and direct-to-satellite — VirtualFence falls back through every layer so the platform stays live even in country that’s never had a cell tower nearby.
Built by people who run land
Cattle, sheep, beef, dairy, regenerative — all on the same platform, with the same reports. No additional modules, no second logins, no SKU sprawl.
The longest active deployments in virtual fencing.
We’ve been live on working operations for more than seven seasons across six countries — through droughts, blizzards, fire and a global supply-chain shock. Every release goes through that proof first.
✦ RESOURCES
Reading for the long drive home.
Field notes, welfare science and operator playbooks — written for people who care about what’s under the hood.
Labour Shortages Are Changing Ranch Management Forever
Across the livestock industry, labour shortages have shifted from seasonal concerns...
Managing Sheep and Mixed Grazing at Scale
Sheep and mixed grazing operations require constant coordination between species, paddocks,...
The End of Permanent Fence? Why Virtual Fencing Is Reshaping Modern Grazing
For decades, grazing operations have depended on permanent fencing to manage...
Rotational Grazing Without the Burnout
Most grazing producers understand the value of rotational grazing. Healthier pasture...
✦ OUR TESTIMONIALS
Lovely clients say us
Clients are at the heart of everything we do, and their success stories speak louder than words.
Jessika Ranch
Freelance Designer
“We were losing two ranch hands a year and couldn’t find replacements. I installed collars on 1,200 head in November expecting to break something. Six months in, my labour bill is down $84,000 and I sleep through the night. The system’s quieter than the cattle are.”
Buchanan Ranch · 4,800 acres · Black Angus cow-calf
Jessika Ranch
Freelance Designer
“We were losing two ranch hands a year and couldn’t find replacements. I installed collars on 1,200 head in November expecting to break something. Six months in, my labour bill is down $84,000 and I sleep through the night. The system’s quieter than the cattle are.”
Cloonacauneen Dairy · 280 head · pasture-based · est. 1962
Jessika Ranch
Freelance Designer
“We were losing two ranch hands a year and couldn’t find replacements. I installed collars on 1,200 head in November expecting to break something. Six months in, my labour bill is down $84,000 and I sleep through the night. The system’s quieter than the cattle are.”
Cloonacauneen Dairy · 280 head · pasture-based · est. 1962
Tell us about your operation. We'll show you the rest.
A 30-minute call with someone who has actually walked a farm. No slide deck — we’ll open the platform on your block.