Cork-based Treemetrics has signed a €1 million deal with Coillte to roll out a pioneering real-time satellite communications and data analytics platform for forestry harvest control.
Treemetrics’ platform, is designed to optimise operational efficiency, reduce waste and improve environmental sustainability.
The ground-breaking communications technology working in partnership with the European Space Agency over the past four years. Treemetrics technology promises to transform the global wood supply chain by connecting all the various stakeholders in real time through global positioning satellites and mobile communications and utilising the latest in data analytics to give first hand insights.
Its satellite communications platform communicates directly with harvest cutting machines ensuring that they always have always-on connectivity, delivering positioning and mapping services to the driver-operators as well as sharing data about the tree-logs in real time with the forest managers and sawmill wood buyers.
The Treemetrics technology platform aims to improve management of forestry resources by real-time monitoring of the harvesting process, providing tree quality mapping and a reduction in travel costs to and from forest sites through in-vehicle navigation and improved inventory mapping.
Enda Keane, CEO and co-founder, Treemetrics, said: “Treemetrics are very grateful for the support we received from the European Space Agency, our technology partner and to Coillte our valued Irish customer, to enable us to deliver the ‘Internet of Trees’ platform, providing real-time data analytics and transformative insights, that will deliver great benefits to the Irish forestry industry, in terms of environmental sustainability, management optimization and improved profitability.”
Fergal Leamy, chief executive, Coillte, said: “Coillte is on a path to becoming the best forestry and land solutions company in Europe. Our increasing use of technology will be crucial over the next few years as we aim to create the connected forest. I am delighted to be working with world leading technology companies like Treemetrics, who also happen to be based in Ireland, as we develop innovative solutions to how we manage our forests.”
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