Forget manual paper logs and static Excel “hot sheets” to track personnel movement and disease status, says Matt Kerns, director of sales and enterprise customer success for BarnTools. On Wednesday at the World Pork Expo, the company released Barn360, a biosecurity platform that expands the BarnTools connected farm system into real-time biosecurity enforcement for swine operations.
Traditional manual systems require significant time and effort, but Kerns notes they also leave dangerous gaps that often go unnoticed until a disease event occurs. Barn360 fills those gaps with a connected system that brings visibility, consistency, and automated enforcement to daily operations.
“Barn360 is digitizing the health pyramid,” Kerns says. “It’s programming the site-to-site movements against that health pyramid and making it real-time. The minute we change something on our proverbial ‘hot sheet,’ it updates the entire system.”
Seamless Integration
With Barn360, producers manage biosecurity in the same Barn Talk app they already use to monitor temperature, water and power. By housing these tools under one roof, biosecurity is no longer a separate, siloed task—it becomes a core part of the connected farm.
Notably, Barn360 is offered as a free value-add for customers using BarnTools’ BinTalk Pro sensors, giving producers enterprise-level biosecurity visibility without additional per-animal or per-site costs.
“Barn360 allows your team to better understand the biosecurity rules and practices you are trying to implement,” says Garrett Gourley, account executive for the swine industry at BarnTools. “It gives them confidence to execute on what the leadership team has built out.”
Real-Time Disease Mitigation
Designed for integrators, veterinarians and production managers, Barn360 provides instant visibility into who is on-site and whether they are compliant with protocols. Because the system updates the moment a farm’s health status changes—such as a porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) break—it can immediately alert personnel if they are ineligible to enter a site based on their recent movement history.
“It’s truncating the latency we have in responding to something that has gone wrong,” Kerns says. “It’s proactive and predictive. No longer am I looking in the rearview and catching it within minutes instead of hours or days. Now I’m looking out my windshield at what’s coming at me.”
The system is designed to be non-invasive for the workforce. Once a user’s phone crosses the farm’s geofence, they are automatically checked in via the app. There are no buttons to push or forms to sign; the user simply needs their location settings enabled.
An Integrated Data Sandbox
BarnTools’ ultimate goal is to move away from “siloed” data. By combining environmental monitoring (BarnTalk), feed management (BinTalk Pro), and biosecurity (Barn360), producers receive a holistic view of the operation.
“As we look across the industry, the pace at which technology is advancing is accelerating,” Kerns says. “For these things to actually be efficient, they have to play nice in the sandbox. We are bringing everything into the same sandbox.”
This integration also allows customers to pull data via API into their own internal dashboards. Kerns emphasizes that while the technology is advanced, the goal remains getting back to the fundamentals of animal husbandry.
“The concepts we’re tackling aren’t novel. We’ve known forever that if we better manage biosecurity, feed, air, and water, those pigs are going to do a great job,” Kerns says. “We want to help producers get better at the basics by giving them information they wouldn’t have had otherwise.”
