Category: Case Studies

When designing your remote monitoring system, it is important to consider what happens to the output signals if the radio link goes down or is interrupted, ie “failsafe”. Failsafe in this context means causing a piece of equipment to revert to a safe condition in the event of a malfunction or breakdown. A good example is effluent […]

September 2025 features include: Water pressure – Pivot to Pump, Irrigation cable replacements, Veggie grower control systems, texting multiple SMS Lites, Workbench v2.15 download Click here for the full newsletter

We are helping to change the way industries approach cable control systems. Whether you’re managing an irrigation system at a golf club or controlling the warning flags at a gun club, our WP2P remote control system provides a seamless, efficient, and reliable alternative to underground control cables.  Click here for more details on the low […]

Use the Analogue Wireless Point to Point WP2P system to send the water pressure signal from the end of a centre pivot to the pump’s VSD controller. Connect a 4-20mA sensor at one end, the analogue WP2P system then transmits the 4-20mA signal to the other end over a low power digital radio link. For […]

If you need to remotely start or monitor your veggie growing facility, we are sure to have a 4G cellular or radio system to suit. The DATRAN Australia 4G cellular controllers and low power digital radio systems are used in many industries including vegetable growing. These systems help provide you with remote control and monitoring […]

Monitoring the mains electricity supply, ventilation status and temperature are crucial in all large scale poultry facilities. This Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry publication defines requirements and changes that need to be implemented by July 2025. This update to our 2023 article is a reminder that time is running out. The SMS Lite […]

Every brewer is looking for quality and consistency of their final product. This applies to small scale home brewers, microbreweries and the big players. The 4G SMS Lite has been used by a local brewery to monitor process instrumentation and send SMS alarms should things go wrong. The project used the SMS Lite for the […]

Our solar powered solid set irrigation controllers have been used for an industrial dust suppression project. The project needed a system to manage and control the dust suppression at a mine site and was designed and completed by Van Diemen’s Land Irrigation in Tasmania. Irrigation systems have long been used for dust suppression. IPCs were selected for this […]

The SMS Controller P2P (Point to Point) mode is an innovative feature that automatically sends the digital and analogue (4-20mA) signals to and from its partner SMS Controller using text messages. The text messages are initiated based on a configurable polling period ranging from every minute to once a week. This allows you to maintain […]

To help you make the most of the SMS Lite a YouTube troubleshooting video is now available. We are always looking for ways to make using our products easier and these videos and the online help are full of useful tips. Our 4G cellular products have an added extra level of complexity as cellular signal […]