The Harvest team has grown by one - Logan Clarke has joined our support team. Logan has previous experience in product support, B2B sales and IT - so his experience will be invaluable to the team.
Development and testing has started on monitoring and GPS tracking of pod effluent irrigators.
Harvest has recently finished development of a blast gas monitor. The blast gas monitor has the ability to monitor multiple gas types (eg. NO2, CO2 and NO) along with weather conditions. Alarms can be generated from any of the monitored variables. See here for more details.
Harvest are pleased to announce that in conjunction with Streat Instruments we now have a serial interface adapter available so serial versions of the Aquaflex soil moisture probe can be connected to Long Range Remotes.
Harvest are about to start field testing of level sensors for milk vat and feed silos. Milk vat level sensing in conjunction with vat temperature monitoring allows the processing of smart alarms for high milk temperature alerts.
Harvest will be attending the New Zealand National Field Days at Mystery Creek, Hamilton from June 13-16. We will be located in the main pavilion at site PD15.
Field trials are starting with GPS on the Long Range Remote (LRR). GPS to enable tracking of travelling irrigators and effluent spreaders.
Development has started on a new "extended" Long Range Remote. The extended LRR will incorporate a few extra inputs but most importantly it will have two relay outputs available. The relay outputs will be operated by a website interface or by pre-programmed logic.
The Harvest team has welcomed two new members and is sorry to say goodbye to our previous accounts manager - Sally McKay. Margaret Anderson has taken on the role of Accounts Manger while Simon Aplin is currently being trained to further bolster the ranks of the support team.
Testing is currently being carried out at two separate dairy farms to enable monitoring of vat temperature. Preliminary testing has been successful and automated alarms are currently enabled for one of the dairy farms to alert for high milk temperature.
Harvest has hit the ground running in 2012. With the sinking of the stern of the Rena and weather station which was located on the bridge - a new weather station with attached camera has been installed on the bow of the ship.
Harvest has supplied a weather station for the Parachute Music Festival (running 27th January to 30th January) along with a camera set to take photos at 10min intervals.
Due to our close association with Kiwirail, Mark Thompson has just completed training to allow work on the NZ Rail Network.
A new option for viewing your weather is now available. If you click the "today" option above your weather graphs you will be given a current weather in a slim cut down view. This is perfect for viewing on smartphones, and can be embedded in your own webpage - contact us for information on how to do this.