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Before
It was then that he knew there
had to be an easier way, so he began
conceptualizing and developing a
wireless sensor.
Over the course of two years,
After
Harvested sensor. Photos: Soiltech Wireless
Before: A grower sent the device through the harvest process and pinpointed areas where
high impacts occurred. After: A reduction in the level of impact after adjustments to the
harvest process were made.
Soltan developed the product directly
with growers, skipping a lot of the
guesswork by going directly to the
end user and asking what it was the
product needed to do, cost and look
like in order to be useful to growers.
The device evolved from a
moisture sensor to a device that
monitored temperature, humidity,
location and crop damage, which
was particularly important for
monitoring bruising.
The sensor follows the entire path
of the potato - it can be placed in the
ground at planting and left there until
harvest, where it, too, is harvested.
It then measures impact as potatoes
are harvested to determine levels of
bruising, and can follow the crop all
the way to storage, where it continues
to monitor various elements like
temperature and humidity.
Since the very beginning, Soiltech
has continued to upgrade the product
with more useful features for growers
and processors, even branching out to
more up-and-coming uses.
For potato growers faced with
monitoring CO2 in storage, and
wanting a way to monitor it
postharvest, a CO2 sensor was
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