Timed openings
Set a gate to open at a time of day or on repeat: break feeding, a shift change, letting the mob onto fresh grass at first light. It runs whether you’re there or not.
How it works
One unit. Then the gate runs itself.
Gate Keeper is a retrofit. It fits the farm gate you already own and turns it into something you set once and stop thinking about. Here’s how it works.
Setup
Pair once over Bluetooth
Open the app next to the unit and pair it. No account juggling, no field wiring. From there you write the gate’s rules in plain language: when to open, how long before it closes, and when it should sing out. Change your mind at the gate and it takes the new rule on the spot.
- Bluetooth pairing, right at the gate
- Rules in plain terms: open, close, alert
- Edit on the spot, no signal needed
The programming
Four operations you set, then forget
Self-closing
Give it a delay and the gate shuts itself once stock is through. No more doubling back because a gate got left swinging.
Left-open warning
If a gate stays open longer than your rule allows (wind, a dropped latch, a forgotten pass) it pings your phone before stock get where they shouldn’t.
Reports to your software
Every open, close and exception is logged and sent back to your farm-management system, so the record keeps itself.
Power & reach
Made for gates the power lines never reached
The whole system assumes the worst: no mains, no reliable coverage, mud and weather. That’s the point.
- No mains power
- Runs day and night with no power run out to the gate.
- No reliable signal
- Keeps working where coverage is patchy or drops out.
- Still answers
- A gate on the back boundary still opens, closes and reports in.
- Retrofit
- Fits the gate you already own, no new gate to buy.
Where the data goes
Gate → homestead → your software
- Gate
The unit acts on its rules and records every open and close.
- Home
Status makes it back to the homestead, and alerts fire the moment they’re raised.
- Software
Movements sync to your farm-management system as a clean log.
Ready to put a gate on your phone?
Reserve a unit with a refundable $250 deposit, or ask Nathanael a question first.