How Agralink Keeps Your Broilers, Layers and Breeders Safe Around the Clock

If you have a chicken house or if you are thinking of expanding, a poultry monitoring and alarm system can help keep your farm operations running smoothly. According to Southern Ag Today 2023 article, a poultry house costs approximately $5M for a 237,600 sf house. With this type of investment, you want your operations protected.

One of the most comprehensive commercial poultry alarm systems is Agralink. Agralink keeps your broilers, layers and breeders safe. It is a remote monitoring platform delivering real-time SMS and voice alerts the moment temperature spikes, ventilation fails, water pressure drops, or the power goes out. From any device, growers gain full visibility across your barns from a single, online dashboard with current and historical data to improve performance over time.

Why Every Minute Counts in a Poultry House

Commercial poultry farming operates on tight margins and timelines. A broiler flock, for instance, represents a significant financial investment, and conditions inside the barn can shift within minutes. The difference between catching a problem early and discovering it later is often a matter of a life or death.

University of Tennessee Extension research confirms that heat stress is one of the most serious threats to broiler chicken’s survival. Elevated temperatures can reduce feed intake, increase water consumption, and cause rapid mortality (University of Tennessee Extension, "Summer Heat Stress Is Detrimental to Broiler Chickens," 2025).

That is where reliable poultry monitoring is critical. Growers who receive an alert within seconds of a threshold breach have enough time to act. Those who find out hours later are often left with a dead flock.

Heat Stress: The Fastest Way to Losing Your Flock

If you experience any type of cooling failure, it can create temperature spikes. When temperatures inside a poultry house rise past critical thresholds, birds experience heat stress, which impairs their immunity system, increasing mortality rates amongst the flock.

According to WATTPoultry.com, heat stress causes significant productivity losses across commercial broiler operations, with reduced weight gain costing producers their investment and profitability. (WATTPoultry.com, "How to Manage Broiler Heat Stress"). Most of those losses are preventable with real-time detection and a rapid response.

Agralink monitors temperature continuously and sends an alert the moment conditions move outside your defined thresholds.

Ventilation Loss: Airflow Is Not Optional

Tunnel fans and curtain systems keep oxygen moving and ammonia levels within a healthy range. If a fan fails, environmental conditions inside the barn can deteriorate quickly. Carbon dioxide can build while oxygen drops. Chicken health to decline well before visible symptoms appear. Agralink tracks the environmental conditions so growers can respond before the chickens show signs of stress.

Dehydration in Chickens Happen Fast

Water flow problems are dangerous during warm weather. A blocked water line, a pressure reading reduction, or a failed pump can leave an entire house without water for hours before anyone notices.

Agralink monitors water flow and pressure, sending alerts the moment readings fall outside normal ranges. That early warning alert gives growers time to find the issue and restore water access.

Power Outages is a Matter of Time

When power goes out, every system in the poultry barn stops working. Growers have minimal time to bring everything back online before chickens begin to deteriorate.

Agralink sends immediate power outage notifications enabling growers to take immediate action. Knowing about the outage within seconds, rather than minutes, keeps your options open and your poultry house(s) protected.

The Agralink Dashboard

Agralink brings all of your monitoring data into one Dashboard. The Dashboard displays real-time sensor readings, active alerts, and historical trends in a layout that is easy to read and monitor for fast decision making. You can see every barn at a glance and drill into the details whenever you need them. The Dashboard gives you live continuous updates from every sensor including temperature, humidity, water flow, and feed levels, giving you an accurate picture of what is happening within your operation.

Instant SMS and Voice Alerts

When conditions exceed your thresholds, Agralink sends notifications within seconds. You can receive alerts by text message, voice call, or both, depending on your preference and the urgency of the situation. The platform supports custom call lists, so different contacts receive alerts based on location.

Historical Data and Reporting

Agralink stores sensor history so you can review trends. That data helps you spot patterns, optimize growing conditions, and make better decisions. The platform also generates PDF reports for record keeping, integrator requirements, and audits.

Smarter Feed Management with LiDAR Sensors

Knowing when a bin is getting low in feed is key to managing your poultry farm. Traditional methods such as physical checks and estimation which can sometimes cause a missed delivery. Agralink uses precision LiDAR sensors to measure feed levels accurately and automatically, so you always know where you stand.

The sensors are solar powered and include a self-cleaning wiper that maintains consistent accuracy without routine maintenance. Once installed, it connects directly to the Agralink platform and begins reporting feed levels in real time.

Growers receive alerts for low feed and feed replenishment which allows you to schedule delivery for when you need, saving money and time. Agralink also supports bin profile setup so you can easily update parameters across all sensors remotely rather than configuring each one on site.

Works with Current Controller

One concern growers often have about adding monitoring is whether it will require replacing existing equipment. If you have an existing system, let us evaluate your system as Agralink can work alongside any controller. The dry contact sensor would connect directly to the alarm relay output on your existing barn controller. When the controller triggers an alarm, Agralink picks it up and sends the notifications immediately.

Better Data Leads to Better Outcomes

Monitoring does more than catch problems, it also gives you the data to understand how your barn(s) perform over time and find opportunities to improve.

The historical data in Agralink shows how temperature, humidity, and water usage trend across a period of time. Growers that review data regularly can make big and small adjustments to improve conditions. Integrators also increasingly are expecting data to help monitor conditions. Having detailed sensor history available adds credibility to your operation.

Ready When You Need It at 3 AM

The most important feature of any poultry monitoring system is that it works when you are not watching. Problems in a poultry house always seem to happen at 3 a.m. when everyone, including the chickens, are sleeping. Agralink monitors your barns 24 hours a day and sends alerts the moment conditions change. You no longer need to wonder if everything is okay. Agralink tells you the moment something needs your attention, and stays quiet so you can focus your time elsewhere when everything is running smoothly.

Get Started with Agralink

Agralarm has been protecting poultry operations for over 35 years. Whether you manage two or twenty poultry houses, Agralink gives you the visibility and the alerts you need to protect your assets, support your team, and run a well-informed operation. Agralink keeps your broilers, layers and breeders safe year round. Visit agralarm.com to explore the platform or build your monitoring system today. Call us at 888-968-2802.