Information Density: Harvest Electronics – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

[IMG: Automated Weather Stations (AWS)]

[H1] Automated Weather Stations (AWS)

Internet of Things (IoT) Automated Weather Stations (AWS) for agriculture, horticultural and industrial use with built in cellular or satellite modems.

[IMG: Frost Alarms]

[H1] Frost Alarms

Advanced Internet of Things (IoT) frost alarm system with multiple temperature sensors and automated control of pumps and frost fans.

[IMG: Online Farm Monitoring and Control]

[H1] Online Farm Monitoring and Control

"If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” Peter Drucker. We remote monitor Wireless Internet of Things (IoT) telemetry equipment and deliver data and alarms to you. Our specialty is solar powered remote monitoring at outdoor unattended locations.

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[IMG: Agriculture]

Farm Monitoring & Control Systems
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[IMG: Vineyard & Orchard]

Frost Alarms and More
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[IMG: Weather]

Automatic Weather Stations (AWS)
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[IMG: Standalone]

Single Point Monitoring
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[IMG: Water & Irrigation]

Online Monitoring and Compliance
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[IMG: Industrial]

Custom Solutions
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[H2] Weather Forecast

[H2] Your own localised forecast

Localised weather forecasts brought to you by Harvest and the IBM Weather Company. The forecast is specific to your location as a 4 km square section in the global IBM grid - each square having its own forecast. IBM use some of the worlds most powerful supercomputers to analyse and process the data from weather satellites and ground stations to produce quality localised weather forecasts.The forecasts give detailed hourly predictions for the next ten days. The forecast can be displayed on the Harvest Data Portal or your Harvest Web App.An add-on option is the forecast of Potential Evapotranspiration (PET) for the next ten days which can assist in irrigation decisions.

[IMG: Weather Forecast]

[H2] Harvest Web App

[H2] Your data where you need it

The Harvest web app is designed to display your data in a mobile friendly format. Each web app is individually setup and customised by Harvest staff to show the things you want to see in the order you want. You won't find it on an app store, it is located at app.harvest.com. To see the live demo login with username 'demo' and  password 'demo'. If you are interested in getting a web app for your own Harvest site please contact us.

[IMG: Harvest Web App]

[H1] Farm Monitoring & Control Solutions

Harvest Systems use solar powered loggers with built in cell phone modems to remotely monitor Internet of Things (IoT) sensors attached to the base station and wireless UHF radio remotes within a few kilometres. The live data and history can be viewed on the Harvest web site using any computer or smartphone.

Water Monitoring
Harvest devices can provide real-time readings with historical water use table and configurable alarms for water and irrigation systems. Common applications include: flow meters (optional transfer of data to council), water tank level, well/bore level, pipe pressure, and pump control. Alarms (txt message, email, or voice call) can be set up for any of the measured values e.g. max daily water usage exceeded, low tank or bore level etc. Pump control can be configured to use sensor input from on site (bore level, max daily water usage is exceeded) or via manual remote control using our secure website accessed via computer or smartphone.

Soil Moisture and Weather Monitoring
The Harvest ITU G2 Base Station (pictured) can be  set up as a weather station. All sensors are options.Typical parameters monitored include soil moisture and temperature, air temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, wind speed and direction and solar radiation (for evapotranspiration calculation). Popular add-on services are a localised forecast for your location using IBM Weather Company forecasts. Premium Service options include soil water deficit which is a calculation of irrigation required (mm/in) to reach Field Capacity for optimum growth.For further reading about soil moisture sensing technologies, see the Irrigation NZ soil moisture monitoring booklet

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Harvest Dairy Effluent Irrigator Tracking and Failsafe
[H3] Features
Monitors the irrigator speed and pipe pressure at the irrigator NOT back at the pump where the long pipelines make that method unreliable.
Allows you to start and stop the effluent pump from your phone.
Records the GPS location for proof of placement.
Custom exclusion zones can be setup to stop/prevent irrigation in specific areas on site that don’t require or aren’t allowed irrigation i.e. a stream onsite or drain in/near an irrigated paddock.
Shuts off the effluent pump under the following conditions and notifies you by text message or voice
Irrigator is travelling so slow that the permitted application rate will be exceeded
The irrigator stops moving due to getting stuck
The irrigator stops because the pull line has become disconnected
The irrigator stops because the feed hose is blocked e.g. kinked or pipeline blocked
The pressure drops due to hose disconnection
The pressure drops and/or the speed is too slow due to a leak e.g. bad hydrant connection
This monitor can prevent you from having an effluent spill and subsequent fine (and risk getting your name in the news).
Our technical support team of ten staff can remotely diagnose most problems and make adjustments to settings at no additional cost.

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Milk Vat Monitoring and Alarms
Monitoring and custom alarms for milk vats and refrigeration can be incorporated into the Harvest system, via our own sensors or other hardware providers such as DTS. Our sensor options include: vat temperature, vat stirrer status, vat inlet/outlet tap, vat level, cooler plate in/plate out temperature, and boiler temperature. Typical alarms include: high milk temperature (vat), stirrer failure, outlet tap open during milking, vat has not been Clean In Place for X hours, boiler not reached 65°C in 24 hours, hot water entering vat, milk leaving cooler at x°C, and power failure.Contact us for more information and pricing. Also available as a standalone package.

Feed Silo (grain bin) Level Sensing and Remote Monitoring
The Harvest Feed Silo (grain bin) Monitor uses a laser sensor with an in house designed motorised shutter to prevent dust buildup on the laser.It is a health and safety issue to climb up the silo to check levels. This is the safe way to see your silo level - with online level data available via our smartphone app and web page. Customisable level alarms will improve both the safety and efficiency of your operation and help you re-order on time.The grain silo monitor can be connected to a Harvest logger or used to send data to any SDI-12 capable logger.Contact us for more information and pricing. We can also monitor grain silos as a standalone package.

Feed Silo Monitor

Remote control of valves, pumps and irrigators
Control valves, pumps and irrigators from your smartphone using the Harvest Web App. Can also have timers to set a pump to run for fixed time.

Farm Brochure
[1.4 MB]

Farm Info Sheet
[2.4 MB]

Milk Vat Monitoring Brochure
[906 KB]

Electric Fence Monitor brochure
[1.9 MB]

Soil Moisture Brochure
[3.1 MB]

Irrigator Monitoring Brochure
[2.7 MB]

Soil Moisture White Paper
[780 KB]

Irrigation NZ Soil Moisture Monitoring Booklet
[792 KB]

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[H3] Related Products

ITU G2

ITU Mini

ITU Micro

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[H1] Vineyard and Orchard Remote Monitoring

Harvest Systems use solar powered loggers with built in cell phone modems to remotely monitor Internet of Things (IoT) sensors attached to the base station and optional wireless UHF radio remotes within a few kilometres of the base station. The live data and history can be viewed on the Harvest web site using any computer or smartphone.

Vineyard & Orchard Frost Alarms + Weather Stations
Harvest systems are typically set up to include a weather station with 15 minute updates to a Harvest web page. Once the temperature drops below your customisable frost threshold, text and voice call alarms are triggered and the logger starts sending data every minute. Parameters that are typically monitored include air temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, wind speed and direction, leaf wetness, and solar radiation (for evapotranspiration calculation).Sensors can also be connected to wireless remotes to cover particularly frost prone parts of the property. If any of these sensors drop below your frost alarm thresholds then frost alarms and minute updates will be triggered. Frequent updates in frost conditions is particularly helpful for measuring frost fighting effectiveness.Designed and manufactured in New Zealand by Harvest, these systems are the most popular across the country in vineyards and orchards. The first system was installed on Graeme McKenzie's Paengaroa kiwifruit orchard in 2003. All data collected is owned by the grower and is stored forever. At any time growers can download historical data to assist in future planning for things like irrigation, frost protection and disease modelling. No one offers better after sales support and service than Harvest.

Soil Moisture Monitoring
Vineyard owners know the benefits of accurate moisture measurement and irrigation to enhance growth and the manipulate the fruit sugar levels.Old technology capacitive soil moisture probes are very susceptible to reading errors as the soil conductivity changes and as the soil is compacted over time. Whenever fertiliser is applied the conductivity changes. The new generation time time domain Reflectometry (TDR) probes are very stable and accurate even when in differing soil types, soil compaction and soil conductivity changes. They do not ever need field calibrating.TDR probes are the only probes which can be pushed into the undisturbed soil in the side of a freshly dug hole and give instant accurate readings. Most other probes need to be covered in soil so it can take months before the probe gives accurate readings. For Kiwifruit we recommend two probes at different depths so you can see the shallow and deep moisture levels. The most common depths for Kiwifruit are 300mm and 600mm. When you irrigate, the shallow probe is the most important one to watch and use to make irrigation decisions.There are several companies that make multilevel probes which claim to show the moisture at multiple levels. However all these probes are capacitive so they will suffer from the inaccuracies of all capacitive probes. They will show you a pretty picture of whether the soil is wet or dry at each depth but they will need calibrating and will not accurately show the actual soil moisture over any extended time period if any fertiliser is applied. It is much better to have two accurate probes than a lot of inaccurate measurements. The slightly higher initial cost of TDR probes is recovered the first time you would have calibrated capacitive probes.Harvest are very pleased to be the New Zealand distributors of the world leading True TDR probes made by Acclima in the USA. Twenty years ago TDR probes were recognised as the gold standard in accuracy but they cost $10,000 each so were limited to research applications. Now the probes are very affordable and not much more expensive than capacitive probes.The Acclima probes are covered by international patents so other probes claiming to be TDR are either not true TDR or they are likely infringing the Acclima patents. Harvest is also happy to supply these probes to customers who are using other brands of remote monitoring equipment.You can read more about our soil moisture monitoring in our brochure and white paper, or contact us for more information.

Water and Irrigation
Harvest monitoring devices can provide real-time readings and configurable alarms for water and irrigation systems. Common applications include flow meter monitoring (optional transfer of data to council), water tank level, well/bore level, pipe pressure, and pump control. Alarms (txt message, email, or voice call) can be set up for any of the measured values e.g. max daily water usage exceeded, low tank or bore level etc. Remote control can be a secure virtual switch on the Harvest web page or the Harvest App or based on a measured value e.g. if block temperature drops below X°C, start the frost fighting pump.

Wind Machine Monitoring
Wind machine (frost fan) monitoring can be retro-fitted to provide online diagnostics and automated alarms for startup or run failure. Parameters that are typically monitored are status (on/off), battery voltage, RPM of the shaft, and wind speed. Once your customisable frost alarm thresholds are met, the data updates every minute. For more information about our wind machine monitoring, please contact us or see our brochure.

Vineyard Brochure
[2.6 MB]

Orchard Brochure
[2.4 MB]

Wind Machine Monitoring Brochure
[1.2 MB]

Soil Moisture Brochure
[3.1 MB]

Harvest Vineyard & Orchard Info Sheet
[1.9 MB]

Soil Moisture White Paper
[780 KB]

Irrigation NZ Soil Moisture Monitoring Booklet
[792 KB]

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[H3] Related Products

ITU G2

ITU Mini

ITU Micro

XLR

LRR

SRR

[H1] Automated Weather Stations (AWS)

The Harvest System is an Internet of Things (IoT) solution that can be configured as an Automated Weather Station (AWS) ranging from high end meteorological grade systems for industrial applications, operating on the Iridium satellite network, to entry level systems for horticultural applications, operating on a 3G or 4G cellular phone network. All our AWS offerings are designed to be totally standalone utilising solar power. The live data can be viewed on a webpage using any computer or smartphone.

Meteorological Grade
Harvest offers a range of high end sensors for meteorological grade performance on our weather stations. Combining these sensors with our ITU G2's stainless steel enclosure and optional mast ensures this solution will provide high quality environmental data and operate accurately and reliably in remote or rugged locations. These units can also be configured to operate on the Iridium satellite network for sites where cellular connection is not possible.Contact us for more info about our met-grade weather stations.

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Standard Weather Stations
Harvest have many options that can be configured to your requirements and budget for applications that don't require met-grade performance. Our ITU G2 can be used to support a network of wireless sensors to collect data from around the site, while the ITU Mini is also a great option for smaller sites where no wireless sensors are required. Both systems support a range of hardwired sensors and outputs including weather, soil moisture, water meters, and water level sensors.Browse our solutions and products for more information on typical ITU G2 or ITU Mini applications or contact us to discuss your monitoring objectives in more detail.

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Portable AWS
Harvest have complete portable solutions for use in various industries. The options include a customised ITU G2 weather station and sensors, along with a 2-piece 1.8m or taller mast, base plate and pegs and a custom road case for secure storage and transportation. An Iridium satellite configuration of AWS is currently being used by Fire and Emergency NZ (FENZ) and in Australia by the Victorian Rural Fire Service for rapid deployment during fires, and in the forestry industry to aid in decision making.Contact us for more info.

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Portable Wind Monitor
The Harvest Portable Wind Monitor is a solar powered ITU Mini equipped with an ultrasonic wind sensor and air temperature/relative humidity sensor. The unit features a durable plastic weatherproof enclosure, three large magnets for quick and stable mounting, and a rugged carry case for easy transportation. This is being used by topdressing pilots (crop dusting) to provide live data which helps them decide when to fly. There is also a satellite version available for locations where there is likely to be no cell coverage.See our brochure or contact us for more info.

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Masts
We have a range of masts available for the mounting of weather sensors, including portable masts, non-guyed tilt over masts, and tilt over masts that can be erected and serviced by one person. All masts are designed for permanent installation and are provided as complete kits including custom mounting which we can offer for a wide range of sensors. Contact us for more info about our masts.

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Roadside Weather Station
Meteorological grade Automatic Weather Station (AWS) on 5m non guyed frangible tilt over mast

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Portable Wind Monitor Brochure
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ITU Mini AWS Brochure
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[H3] Related Products

ITU G2

ITU Mini