Focus will be on making farm work safer at Elmore

FRESH ideas on how electronics can make farm work easier and safer will be on show at the field days.

Keeping tabs: NAS digital wireless vehicle monitoring.

FRESH ideas on how electronics can make farm work easier and safer will be on show at the field days.

Western Australia’s NAS Electronics will introduce two new releases alongside an established farmer favourite.

One of these is the GPS DVR for vehicle tracking, priced at $2131, incorporating four waterproof cameras and a split-display touchscreen monitor.

Director Russell Vivian, who will be at Elmore, described the unit as “really like a built-in dash-cam, mainly used by trucking companies to know where their vehicles have been”.

“It records on to four 128GB micro SD cards with 144 hours of video storage, stored in a locked compartment to prevent tampering,” he said.

“It shows the date, time and speed and incorporates an integrated G-sensor, so if there’s an impact or the driver slams his foot on the brake, the video file is locked so it can’t be lost in re-recording.”

The second new release will be a nine-inch digital wireless quad monitor, also with four cameras and priced at $1897.

“This has no GPS, but will take a 128GB SD card which records for 48 hours,” Mr Vivian said.

“Farmers really like our latest seven-inch digital wireless units — they put them into grain bins to avoid getting in and out of the truck all the time to check levels and climb ladders.

“Costing $1495, these have also been fitted to road trains and harvesters to reduce workloads and act as a safety measure, alerting operators to what’s going on around them.”

The digital wireless units eliminate the need to run cables through machinery and cameras can be up to 100m in a clear line of sight from the monitor.

“Other equipment we plan to display will include solar gate automation kits, and hidden cameras,” Mr Vivian said.

For details, visit nassecurity.com.au