Benefits

• Significant cost savings, through
  • Ability to drive more accurately
  • Ability to calculate paddock areas before starting work, and monitor area remaining while working
  • Reduced use of foam marker
• More productive hours, through
  • Ability to work into the night to finish a job
  • Easy to return and finish partially completed work
  • Easy to see what parts of a job completed on broken country and when in multiple paddocks
  • Not spending time looking for wheelmarks or foam residual on dry country or when returning to a job
• Considerably less stress and greater job enjoyment
• Considerably easier to train new drivers
• Simple to learn, meaning you can use relief drivers unfamiliar with GPS
• Accurate area calculation at the end of the job
• Verify the quality of your work to customers
• Provides accountability for job quality by staff
• Provides a simple method of meeting any traceability and audit requirements
• Achieve protection from false claims for consequential damage as a result of negligence or applying in wrong location.
• Ability to use maps as a means of billing clients, often before the truck has returned from a days work

Features

• Easy to use menus and buttons
• Draws a map on the screen, which makes it easy to see the area covered and remaining to cover while working
• Pause button to mark position to return to when refilling
• Ability to add and save hazards by customers, assisting repeat visits to clients
• Option to import and display customers GPS farm maps
• Can save up to 40 uncompleted jobs for later retrieval
• Transmit maps through the cellular network easily at the touch of a button
• Large 6.4 inch screen size for easy reading
• Great daylight visibility, irrespective of sunlight conditionsSwivel Dash Mounting for ease of placement and viewing
• Completely waterproof and dustproof, meaning you can operate in all environments

GPS Options

• Autonomous GPS.Many of our spraying customers use autonomous GPS, which is the standard GPS sold as part of the TracMap package. This will typically give pass to pass accuracy of under 2 metres, but (as with all autonomous GPS receivers), can occasionally be much worse than this.
  • This means you will need to run a foam marker as well, particularly when it is important to achieve complete coverage with minimal or no overlap.

• "Novatel Glide" GPS. This option analyses the errors in its position fix and then calculate a correction. After this it will typically provide about 30cm accuracy on a pass to pass basis. If you are returning to a partially competed job you can correct for the position drift which occurs over time by using the "nudge" feature in the TracMap software.

• Differential GPS.We also offer the ability to upgrade to the precision provided by an Omnistar correction signal. The benefit of this option is always knowing your position fix is accurate. Accuracy options include;
  • Sub-metre, which typically provides under 30cm accuracy on a pass to pass basis, and is good enough to allow you to dispense with a foam marker.
  • 10cm, which is a higher level of accuracy still.
  • Both options require a monthly (or annual) subscription to acquire the correction signal.

Case Studies

No more foam marking

Tim Duncan operates in the Ida Valley, which throughout Summer reaches high temperatures and often resulted in foam markings not lasting the day.

It is great to be able to demonstrate to farmers we are doing a quality job, and have the confidence that staff are doing the same.

John Eaton is an Agricultural Spraying Contractor, Outram, Otago and uses TracMap. "Being able to drive more accurately, and ensure the whole area has been covered, is a great advantage. It is always important, but particularly so on broken hill country.