2015-02-07, 22:20
Farm Bred IoT Technology Goes Industrial
It's the dead of night in rural Indiana when a truck pulls up alongside a central pivot irrigation system. Two men dressed in black get out with bolt cutters in hand, and over the next several minutes they cut and remove copper wiring from the irrigation system before driving off. On the open scrap market the two men stand to make between $300-$400 from their copper wire theft, while the farmer will have to pay up to $10,000 in parts and labor to get that system repaired and running again. According to Edward DeSalle, CEO of Net Irrigate, manufacturer of Wireless Agricultural Irrigation Monitoring (WAIM) technology, rural copper wire theft is a frequent occurrence, and not just in Indiana.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertvamosi...uture-tech
It's the dead of night in rural Indiana when a truck pulls up alongside a central pivot irrigation system. Two men dressed in black get out with bolt cutters in hand, and over the next several minutes they cut and remove copper wiring from the irrigation system before driving off. On the open scrap market the two men stand to make between $300-$400 from their copper wire theft, while the farmer will have to pay up to $10,000 in parts and labor to get that system repaired and running again. According to Edward DeSalle, CEO of Net Irrigate, manufacturer of Wireless Agricultural Irrigation Monitoring (WAIM) technology, rural copper wire theft is a frequent occurrence, and not just in Indiana.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertvamosi...uture-tech