Monitoring your hay and shed assets.
Introducing the new Shepherd watching over your farm.
Shepherd Monitoring Systems was developed through the need to better measure and monitor hay storage sheds, that were currently not being met for commercial agricultural production.
Hay season on a large scale involves many moving parts and steps. It only takes a breakdown of one of these steps to cause a situation where hay can spontaneously combust in the storage facility.
In this event, by the time the situation has escalated to obvious signs of spontaneous combustion, it’s already too late to salvage non-affected hay and save the shed asset.
Current devices on the market rely on point contact, and having that probe in the precise bale that is going to cause an issue, is equivalent to finding a needle in a haystack!!! Designed, developed, built and tested in Australia.
HayShepherd was founded on 3 simple beliefs that monitoring hay and gathering data should be easy.
Working on three key principles, HayShepherd is:
– Easy to use and monitor.
– Alerts sent to your device.
– Downloadable data.
Hay Shepherd is the first of its kind hay shed monitoring system, utilizing either NB-iot or LoRa-wan technology (depending on location).
How We Monitor
We create a tailored product solution for each individual shed.
Working in with Shepherd Monitoring Systems, we will design a HayShepherd system to suit your size and scale of operation, as our product is scalable and can monitor multiple sheds.
Ready to Install
Through consultation with the Shepherd Monitoring System team, each system is delivered operating and ready to install, eliminating the need for technicians onsite.
Accurate data from Day 2
Once installed HayShepherd will begin monitoring the hay and shed from the next day.
Easy-to-read graphed data
Graph data trends can be visually monitored.
Our founder and developer has over 20 years experience in agriculture and export industries. Using advanced iiot technology, cloud hosting and algorithms, HayShepherd is able to alert the owner or occupier of changes in temperature and humidity in exact locations of the storage facility.
Our Approach and Solutions
The system is simple to install, it does not hinder stacking efficiency of the hay shed. The advantage of HayShepherd over point contact systems is that HayShepherd allows for greater detection area coverage.
User friendly, comes ready to install, no wires, switches or buttons.
Capturing encrypted data for insurance and quality ensuance purposes.
An easy to use mobile platform, allows for easy viewing and monitoring of single or multiple facilities.
The system is capable of sending emails or text message alerts when a temperature abnormality is detected.
HayShepherd allows action to be taken to remove surrounding hay from the suspect bay, also allowing for the readiness of fire prevention equipment to be on site.
The system does not replace the need to properly bale hay, the system is to monitor any temperature or humidity abnormalities. HayShepherd allows for an insight and advanced warning of possible hay spontaneous combustion events developing. Which allows for the removal of any surrounding hay, so the suspect hay can be isolated and attended to.
Key Features
Hay Shepherd is the first of its kind hay shed monitoring system, utilizing either NB-iot or LoRa-wan technology (depending on location).
2-3 year battery life
Alert notifications (Email and SMS)
Product arrives operating + ready to install
Plug and go!
Downloadable CSV file
Non-intrusive device placement
Made and tested in Australia
Telstra NB-iot coverage map
This is predicted coverage only and does not include indoor coverage or sub-surface areas. Coverage at any location can be affected by local building density, terrain and vegetation. Speed and performance may vary with your location, device, and demand on the network.
Click below to discover your property’s NB-iot coverage
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