Agri-Tech Systems

Best of British – Award Winning Sensing, Monitoring, Measurement and Control Innovations for the Farming Community

We offer a range of standard and bespoke British manufactured and designed solutions for Farming, Agriculture, Dairy & Creameries and Fisheries. These are designed to improve efficiency, improve productivity, enhance farm security, cut pollution, conserve and control water,  control wastewater storage and discharges into the environment to help prevent fines.

Radio Data Networks (RDN) have already won multiple industry awards for their innovation in the areas of remote measurement, radio telemetry, monitoring, security, water supply, wastewater management and pollution control to help businesses work towards net zero on their farms to achieve the NFU’s 2040 net zero goal as well as prevent fines from the Environment Agency.

Nurse Tank Telemetry System

Our solutions can operate in areas devoid of cellular coverage and we are the only company in the UK to offer solutions of this kind with the option of legal protection under our National Ofcom radio licence. Ofcom licensing not only means that operation is protected in law against jamming and interference, but we are also able to construct systems with a much greater operating power, which means greater distances, improved reliability, the ability to operate through forests, over hills, etc. We are also able to send unlimited numbers of messages and are able to build systems with mixed voice and data. As we write our systems send over half a billion messages per year across the UK alone.

Solutions Include:

• Service Reservoirs – Level, control and automation

• Remote Pump Controls – Boreholes, river abstraction, irrigation, sludge and digestate

• Nurse Tank – Tank to Cab Level Display Systems – Slurry & digestate spreading

• Security & Theft Alarms – Tractors & Farm Machinery, building units, gates & access control, oil tanks, trespassing, solar farms

• Borehole Monitors – Level, temperature and tampering

• Remote Level Gauges – Grain silos with ATEX, water storage tanks, oil tanks, chemical stores

• Pollution Discharge Alarms – Oil traps / interceptor alarms, milk & chemical spills

• Automated Spill & Firewater Containment – Valves to close drains and sewers

• Temperature Monitors – Grain stores, drying sheds/units, greenhouses, hen house

• Flood Monitors – Roads, buildings, rivers, drains and gullies

• Blocked Sewer and Drain Alarms – Food production areas, slaughterhouses, storage & warehousing, accommodation, holiday lets

• Automate Irrigation Flow Valves – Horticulture and hydroponics

No Power No Problem

Over 95% of our solutions deployed to date are battery operated. Many solutions have set industry records for operating from batteries including sensors achieving up to a decade form a single cell.

Where applicable we can also supply solar or wind operated solutions and have a range of custom designed boxes and pole mounts for fixing solar panels safely and securely.

One of our Solar Power Solutions

RDN’s Communication Advantage – Remote location? No problem

The RDN advantage over cellular for communications is manyfold. With cellular in a state of flux over the 5G migrations and the withdraw of 2G, GRPS and 3G services, operating on RDN’s licenced radio spectrum offers considerable advantages.

 Case Study – Leading UK Dairy Farm: Long range service reservoir link installation

• Long term investment stability
• Distances from 100m to 25km
• No SIM cards to get lost, stolen or to manage
• Greater battery life
• Alarms able to wake and send distress messages in < 0.5 sec from triggering
• Immunity from cellular network jammers
• Unlimited number of messages
• Automated health messages
• Fixed fee

Long Range Service Reservoir Link Installed at a Leading UK Dairy