Patchwork Technology continues to grow
Patchwork Technology Ltd was proud to unveil the BlackBox Air at LAMMA 2017 and since then have continued to develop it.
F or the first time Patchwork is able to offer a complete guidance and area measurement system for under £ 1000. The starting price for the Air is £ 700 without a tablet and £ 800 with a tablet.
The BlackBox Air software can be downloaded free of charge from the Google Play store. It has been designed to run on any Android tablet or mobile phone * offering the widest choice of display possible within the industry.
Sue Davies Commercial Director at Patchwork said“ We are proud to be building on the success of the existing BlackBox range, the Air now adds low cost of entry to state of the art hardware.”
Sue said“ We are overwhelmed by the positive response it has received, there are now over 300 on farm in the UK & Ireland, allowing cost saving technology to be even more accessible than ever before. The Air + adds the ability to pause jobs, use headland management, headland guidance and the auto recording function available in the BlackBox ECO +.”
Patchwork Technology are still improving the BlackBox Air with the addition of job data recording for regulatory compliance. Sue said” The Air + with recording will allow our customers to record data with their field records in the new simple to use BlackBox Core.”
Now available from Patchwork is the all new BlackBox Core, which is the office software at the heart of the BlackBox range, the free version will allow users to manage their farm and field names, print boundaries and track their Blackbox Air + systems. The first module to be added to the core is the Lime mapping module, this allows users to create variable rate lime application maps from pH values in the field. Sue said“ This is the first of many modules we have planned for the BlackBox Core, I believe this is a very exciting time in Agri tech. As more and more information is available, making sense of the data is going to be key in many farm decisions. Exception reporting will be a big part of the Blackbox Core to highlight where something is not as it should be.
New hardware and Android applications will follow, come and see us to view the Blackbox Scout.
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