Surveillance cameras on the farm can do more than give you a sense of security. Ag Video Surveillance in Beaver Dam is seeing a growing interest in using surveillance for better farm management.
Jason Nosrati tells Mid-West Farm Report about the trends he’s seeing in farm security and the logistics required to install video surveillance. He says dairy is his leading customer, but he works with agribusiness across the board.
“Most people associate security cameras with security,” he says. “But I would say in the dairy industry at least, the trend right now really is to hone down their process: quality control and training, cost savings, all kinds of different things. It’s far beyond just the security aspect. It is much more in the process monitoring now.”
Nosrati says cameras in the parlors help as a training tool to get consistency between shifts, and to make sure procedures are being followed.
He says demand jumps either after an accident happened at the farm or people hear about an accident or attack at another farm.
“We can do farm wide or closed circuit and hook up to the wi-fi and get it on their phones — that’s the path that a majority of farmers select,” Nosrati says. That way, farmers can look at the footage wherever they are. “Being rural, high speed internet isn’t always readily available… so there’s sometimes when it’s just closed circuit and it just works locally.”
He says the picture on the footage nowadays is very clear, and you can zoom in and pick up a lot of detail.
“Some of the best success stories that I’ve had usually come from beef farmers because a lot of times when they get into the calving season, and a lot of the beef operations calf in the heart of winter, they don’t have to get up at 2 in the morning and put their boots on anymore,” he says. “They appreciate that they can reach over to the nightstand and grab the phone and look at the maternity pens.”
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