Farming
Farming businesses come in many shapes and sizes, from a family business operating within their local area to national farming organisations growing a wide variety of produce.
The Cotel solution developed with Rowe Farming (part of Greenvale Group) enabled Team Leaders to be in contact to manage their manpower and machinery resources effectively.
The solution included a secure two-way radio network as well as the necessary infrastructure to achieve instant, reliable communications.
All farm machinery, maintenance teams and management supervisors have access to each other. Over 850 full and part-time staff, working over 600 hectares spread
throughout Cornwall, is an enormous task made more manageable with the high-quality radio communications solutions from Cotel.
The Cotel SiteMaster hand unit contains several Operator Welfare Monitoring functions to ensure the health and safety of the operator. Should the operator enter an emergency situation, the rest of the team will be alerted to ensure that the situation is resolved efficiently.
For the majority of family farming businesses, the need to multitask to survive is essential. Their working mobile plant, tractors or combine harvesters will also double as their office, dining room, information centre, communications hub and sales office. The Cotel solution enables the farm owner to be in contact with their staff over a wide area of operation, whether working on their own land or doing contract work for other farming organisations. This ability to communicate is essential for preventing health and safety issues, responding to machinary defects, and the efficient conduct of the business. The Cotel solution for this customer provided a wide area Repeater facility, offering county-wide coverage between all the mobile plant. Handheld options for on-farm communications, and channel access to the mobile plant via the repeater, are standard options provided by Cotel.
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