The grassland ecological remote sensing team from the Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning (IARRP), CAAS, unveiled their Smart Grazing and Precision Management Cloud Platform for Grassland and Livestock at the first-ever technology achievement transformation event in the grass industry field, held in Tongliao city, Inner Mongolia autonomous region on Oct 10. This event also marked the 52nd "Mengkeju" special achievements release conference of 2026. The platform is a key technological outcome of the national R&D project during the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025), led by the team's chief researcher, Xin Xiaoping.

The conference addressed practical challenges in Inner Mongolia's grassland ecological protection and precise livestock management, showcasing nine innovative technological solutions in the grass industry. The Smart Grazing and Precision Management Cloud Platform specifically tackles the theoretical and technical hurdles that exist in digitizing natural grassland livestock management. By integrating multi-source data, coordinating smart devices, and incorporating advanced algorithms, the platform creates a visual management system that features a "National Grassland Map + Ranch Scale Map". This system supports full-process intelligence, from grassland data management and livestock monitoring to grass-livestock balance controls and ranch management decision-making. The platform comprises five subsystems: Data integration, algorithms integration, intelligent grazing, precision management, and system management. It integrates six or more types of equipment, accesses over 30 types of data, and incorporates more than 10 algorithms, establishing a digital twin foundation for grasslands and enabling intelligent cloud-based scheduling. The platform innovatively applies spaceborne information, artificial intelligence, 5G communication, and other technologies, creating a smart grazing technology system that covers "perception-analysis-decision-making." It includes an all-encompassing "smart eye," an intelligent grazing system, and a precise feeding management module, offering capabilities such as monitoring grassland changes, tracking livestock, intelligently detecting livestock health and behavior, and precisely regulating grassland load.

In recent years, Inner Mongolia has consistently enhanced policy support for smart animal husbandry. According to the Implementation Plan for the Construction of Smart Beef Cattle and Sheep Ranches in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (2026 Edition), the region plans to support the development of over 120 smart ranches, focusing on enhancing intelligent facilities and equipment in areas such as remote grazing, precise feeding, and scientific grazing. This policy direction provides favorable conditions for the large-scale application of the smart grazing cloud platform throughout the region. The release of these achievements signifies the formal entry of the grassland ecological remote sensing team's long-term efforts in grassland ecological remote sensing and smart ranching into the industrialization phase.