Wireless mesh technology boosts crop yields
Kronos – a global provider of human capital management solutions – has selected GreenPeak’s low-power wireless mesh networking technology for one of its wireless terminals. Hortimax, a Kronos VAR, is active in greenhouse harvesting management systems. In one of its projects, a harvest administration system is used to monitor the activity and location of individual mobile harvesting carts.
This solution is based on the Kronos wireless terminal and uses GreenPeak’s wireless mesh technology to transmit data from individual mobile harvesting carts to routers, which enables the data to be gathered and analysed in a central co-ordinator unit.
The wireless technology allows the monitoring of individual pickers’ efficiency.
Compared with the old situation, where only the average picking weight per corridor and not per individual picker was known, the new system was able to increase overall greenhouse productivity by 15%.
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