Herding sheep on this app is no game

For thousands of years, people in Inner Mongolia have been herding sheep roughly the same way - whipping the leader from atop a horse or now a motorcycle to lead the herd, with a sheepdog conducting the animals.

But an app has revolutionized the business, freeing shepherds from horses and motorcycles by allowing them to remotely tend to their sheep from home with the help of their smartphones.

The app, developed by Mongolian Triones, a tech startup established in 2015, adopts location-based technologies to provide users with real-time updates of where their sheep or cattle are, their health and detailed reminders such as whether they need water.