Cargill is buying BinSentry technology to keep track of grain levels in storage bins and feed levels in it customers’ on-farm bins.
“Integrating BinSentry sensors with our Cargill Nutrition Cloud Platform helps animal producers, feed mills and their customers get the right feed for specific animal groupings in their operations,” said Scott Ainslie, Cargill’s regional managing director of animal nutrition.
“This also opens up opportunities for truck route optimization and better production scheduling in feed mills.”
BinSentry ls a Kitchener company that developed sensors that detect feed or grain levels in bins using lasers, solar power to transmit findings to central computers miles away and wipers to clear dust from the lenses so readings are accurate.
It uses low-power, long-range networks such as NB-IoT and LTE-M, so even remotely located feed bins can be monitored, regardless of whether internet connectivity is available.
Feed mills can plan delivery routes more efficiently and can ensure that farmers have the right amount of feed when they need it.
Other benefits include fewer costly ordering errors, reduction in late or unexpected feed orders and increased safety by eliminating the need for producers or feed mill employees to climb into a bin to check inventory levels.
