Table Grapes: Harvester Productivity and Traceability
Outcomes and Benefits
Hard Outcomes
- 15% – 20% Worker Productivity increase
- Save up to 2 hours per day in radio communication between packhouse and orchard discussing crate count
- 1 hour senior management time saved per day retyping outcome in Excel
- Ease of use – 1 hour training of harvesting team per season
Soft Outcomes
- World’s highest level of crate traceability showing
- Harvester name
- GPS location of crate
- Harvesting date and time
- Prevent bad quality harvesters from putting your consignments at risk. Know exactly who harvested each crate
- Live, accurate data every day
- Accurate Yield maps for fertiliser planning
- More time farming, less time on paperwork
- Flag bad crates to indicate where bad quality grapes originate – Help manage in the off-season
Dashboard and Hardware
Android mobile Phone
GT-1 Harvesting Device
Crate Tag
The Setup
How it Works
1. In the Orchard
- Each harvester has an employee Tag that is allocated to him / her
- Each crate has an RFID Tag that is permanently fixed to the crate
The process in the field:
- Each time a harvested finishes a crate, they scan the crate with the GT-1 on their wrist.
- The GT-1 device beeps for a second to indicate that the transaction was successful and the harvester can continue harvesting another crate.
- The following information is collected per scan in the cloud and on the crate:
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- Employee name and surname
- GPS coordinate for that specific crate
- Time and date stamp of the scan
2. Scanning the device
- At certain time intervals, the GT-1 device can be scanned with a mobile phone and all the data is transferred from the GT-1 to the Mobile phone
- This data is then synced from the phone to the cloud
3. On the portal
- Data is shown on the online portal within minutes and can be accessed anywhere on earth
- Data is organised to show:
- Harvester performance
- Team Performance
- Orchard yields (Bags and Kg’s) and bag locations
- Total yield for the day
Frequently Asked Questions
All data that have been scanned in will be visible on the Dashboard within 5-10mins
No, there are many hidden settings that the managers can se on the GT-1 device. The settings used in the above section includes preventing the same tag from being scanned 2 times in a row and also preventing the same tag from being scanned within 3mins. The runners don’t know the settings and that prevents them from working around it.
Yes, this farm specifically rented the GT-1 hardware as they wanted to see if it will work for them. The employee tags was the only hardware considered a consumable product that they had to purchase. They also already had the mobile android phones.
Yes, you will always have access to your data, even after the season.
Yes, we do have a really well proven and affordable rugged phone that we recommend farmers purchase.
We have a system to help with the data and sim management. If you’d like, you are welcome to take the sim management over on your own account. Call us to guide you through the process if required.
Not a problem, the GT-1 scanners does not need cellphone signal to work. It uses satellite signals for GPS and then it is ready to be scanned. The data is transmitted to the cloud via the mobile phone with our app that is also offline compatible.
The Orchard yield is determined by the bag coordinates and pre-set orchard boundaries. All the GPS plots that fall within the orchard boundaries are allocated to the orchard and we can set a pre-determined average bag weight to calculate yield and yield maps.
The GT-1 scanner will last a full 12 hours when the battery is still new, but we have a 3 year expected battery life cycle where if the battery does not last a full day, we swop the GT-1 out for a new one and refurbish the old one. So no need to throw an old one away and buy a full priced new one.
The GT-1 scanners must be charged every evening. We consider your GT-1 scanners like a farm radio that is placed in the Charger every evening and the next morning, it is ready for a full day’s harvest
Yes, all our dashboards can be exported to excel to be used for internal calculations
Each GT-1 charging dock comes with a reset port. You can just insert the faulty GT-1 into the Reset port and press the reset button while the dock is plugged in. It will do a factory reset and you now only need to allocate the GT-1 and ensure that the correct configurations are selected. Just reach out to one of our technical staff to assist you.