Zero Tolerance – Stray Voltage and Electrical Noise Mitigation

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Zero Tolerance – Stray Voltage and Electrical Noise Mitigation

About the Company:

Zero Tolerance is transforming animal agriculture by addressing the critical yet often overlooked issue of stray voltage and electrical noise. Modern agricultural facilities rely on increasingly complex electrical systems and automation. Still, these advancements can unintentionally generate electrical disturbances that impact livestock health and equipment performance. Left unresolved, stray voltage introduces liabilities and reduces profitability for farmers, manure management systems, equipment manufacturers, and utility providers.

Zero Tolerance’s mission began with direct observations on dairy farms, where compromised cow health, reduced milk production, and unreliable RFID tracking systems persisted — even when existing electrical standards were met. Today, Zero Tolerance delivers a comprehensive, farm-level solution through their patent-pending approach to mitigating stray voltage and electrical noise. Their proven method consistently achieves stray voltage levels of 0.070V or less, significantly surpassing industry standards and delivering measurable improvements in farm performance and animal welfare.

About the Solution:

The Cost of Unseen Electrical Interference

The presence of stray voltage and electrical noise--even at levels as low as 10mV-- has been correlated with adverse effects on milk production and animal behavior. These issues can lead to problems across the farm:

  • Compromised Cow Health and Welfare: Key performance indicators such as milk yield per cow, water intake, feed intake, and pregnancy rates can negatively affect efficiency and profitability.
  • Degraded Equipment Performance and Lifespan: Electrical noise and poor grounding can impact automation systems. For example, milking or RFID systems may become unreliable or fail prematurely.
  • Challenges for Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs): Equipment may underperform in electrically noisy environments impacting customer satisfaction and brand reputation.

Achieve an Electrically Clean Environment

Elevate your farm's health and productivity by eliminating detrimental stray voltage and electrical noise. Zero Tolerance's patent-pending process is a holistic approach--unlike traditional methods that use filters or blockers. They don't just patch problems; They address shortcomings in the electrical pathway systems and grounding networks.

By surpassing current compliance levels and achieving 70mV or lower, the Zero Tolerance process helps unlock production potential. They provide detailed system evaluations, develop tailored remediation plans, and validate effectiveness.

The Products Matter

Zero Tolerance certified products are tested for optimized performance without introducing stray voltage and provide an electrically clean environment.
  • Certified Lighting Solutions: Engineered for demanding farm conditions, Zero Tolerance-certified lights consume less energy and support precision lighting strategies--like long-day lighting--to boost milk production and enhance animal health.
  • Certified Environmental Controls & Fans: Essential for optimizing climate control, these solutions provide accurate temperature regulation and animal comfort without adding electrical stress.
  • Certified VFDs and Drive Systems: Their Zero Tolerance-certified VFD solutions allow farms to embrace the efficiency and precision provided by VFDs without introducing the harmful electrical noise often associated with their deployment, ensuring optimal operation of milking systems, ventilation, and other variable-speed equipment.
  • Other Certified Equipment & Electrical Components: Their certification extends to custom electrical panels and control systems, ensuring compatibility with other farm equipment and improving the performance of sensitive systems like RFID tracking.
Benefits of Electrically Clean Systems

By focusing on electrically clean, certified products as part of a comprehensive mitigation strategy, Zero Tolerance enables farms to:
  • Significantly Improve Animal Health and Comfort: Achieve results like increased milk production, lower somatic cell counts (SCC), and improved pregnancy rates.
  • Boost Farm Productivity and Profitability: Optimize key performance metrics and unlock untapped production potential.
  • Enhance Equipment Functionality and Lifespan: Ensure reliable performance of automation systems and reduce failure rates.
  • Embrace Automation with Confidence: Deploy advanced technologies like robots, milkers, ventilation, and IoT monitoring on a stable electrical foundation.

Zero Tolerance Beresford, South Dakota United States 605-667-4888 Visit Company Website

Solution Type

  • General Support and Other

Vendor

  • Service Provider

Product

  • Other
  • Services

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Solution Strengths, Weaknesses and Critical Indicators

NOTE: There are multiple technologies that are used as part of integrated manure management systems and yet are not manure management types on their own. The impact of these technologies on their own would be minimal or very difficult to quantify.

General Support & Other:

  • Can be an integral part of many manure management systems
  • Most projects have at least some equipment that supports operations of the main technology
  • This technology is not evaluated on its own, the NEAT Matrix for this technology is neutral unless utilized with other technologies.

Newtrient Comments/Opinions:

Zero Tolerance has recently been added to the Newtrient catalog. Newtrient will continue to work with Zero Tolerance to further refine the cost and performance information on their solution. Newtrient will update this entry as more information becomes available and as new commercial dairy installations come online.

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