8-11 IAN Beep-Beep 2
Control your farm equipment while you’re on the beach in Hawaii. I’m David Sparks and I’ll tell you how in a minute.
Yesterday I was telling you about running into Governor Otter and State Representative Jim Patrick who runs a farm in South Central Idaho. But the point was that he can run his farm from remote locations. For example when he hears a certain beep tone on his cell phone, it means something’s going on with his pivots. So when he hears a certain beep pattern: “It means that something changed. It can be that the pivots have safteyed out or it could be the water went off or the power went off or came to the end and auto-reversed. You can set the pivots for a service stop and it will stop at a certain point in the field and will let me know if it’s there. So it gives me an update on any status change. I can go on-line with my smart phone and there’s a graphic of the pivots that shows where they’re located, whether they’re running and it has a different color if you’re putting on chemicals or fertilizer, different color if it’s dry then you can go into the details of each one of them.”
