Farms and Farm Machinery

Good sense

In a world where remote monitoring and automation is becoming increasingly common at all levels of industry, there are still simple problems – and straightforward solutions.

Dan Buzatu is the national technical sales manager for the Australian arm of ifm, one of the world’s leading specialist automation technology developers, and a person who has worked with some of Australia’s largest factories and mining groups.

How, then, to deal with the age-old problem of monitoring water levels in a stock dam, as the company was asked a few years ago?

Buzatu says a complex device might not be the best solution – noting the one being used by the farmer in this example was

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