Remote Monitoring Camera System Transcript
Featuring
- Chris Patmore (Interviewee, Farmer)
- Peter Rowe (Interviewee, Economist)
- Rhys Jones (Intro Voice Over)
Intro (Rhys Jones)
TheDepartment of Agriculture and Food, WA through its Sheep Industry Business Innovation project funded by Royalties for Regions, is supporting and sharing new technologies in the sheep industry this is improving labour efficiency in the sector and making it easier all-round to run sheet.
Chris Patmore (interviewee)
Everyone that’s getting out of sheep’s saying argh it’s too bloody hard.
It’s not hard, sheep works not hard if you've got good facilities and it doesn't have to be expensive to be good.
Yeah my name’s Chris Patmore. Um my wife Robin and I run a farm here at Eneabba, were 20 kilometres north of Eneabba which is about 300 kilometres north of Perth, and we're running a sheep enterprise here. I've got four other properties around the place um that require remote monitoring just to make life a bit simple for me so about six years ago I invested in a remote monitoring out fit with 15 cameras.
It allows me to do other things around the farm that probably wouldn't be getting done while I'm wasting time driving around checking troughs.
So, my farm improvement program has taken a step up.
Fencing and Lane Ways and that sort of stuff.
It's proved itself well and truly over the years.
It allows me to leave the sheep without physically checking them and I can just check them on the phone.
We run about 4000 ewes here and it's not a big job to check them when their close by but when they're a fair distance from home it does create logistical problems.
This remote monitoring setup is well and truly worth it and I'd recommend it to anyone that is running sheet that is any distant from home at all.
I've modified them to make them portable just with a thumbscrew, and just unscrew them and lift them off and take them with you and throw them in the back seat of the vehicle and off you go.
When you shift a mob of sheep you shift the camera with the sheep.
Each camera has got a solar panel and a battery and it just takes a photo on a set schedule you can set yourself.
I've got it set to take photos every three hours a day.
You can take as many photos you as you like per day.
It's a plug and play system.
You can have a camera 20 or 30 kilometres from a mobile phone tower and it still works fine.
I haven't done the sums on it too much because I wasn't even, wasn't even concerned about that, in my mind it that was that obvious.
Peter Rowe
I'm Peter Roe, I'm an Agricultural Economist and I've been working in the field for over 20 years.
I was approached by the Department Of Agriculture And Food, to investigate the economics of Chris’remote camera system.
Chris has managed to save over $23000 a year.
So for each dollar Chris has invested in the system across a 10 year life of the system, he's saving himself $5.30.
That's $5.30 a combination of both labour and reduced fuel and wear on the vehicles.
Chris Patmore. (interviewee)
Yep peace of mind while you're away and better time management when you're at home.