Coillte, Ireland’s national forestry company, announced a major Euro 1 million contract agreement with Treemetrics, to roll out a pioneering real-time satellite communications and data-analytics platform for Forestry harvest control, which is designed to optimise operational efficiency, reduce waste and improve environmental sustainability.
The technology platform, a world first for the forestry industry, 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.
The Satellite Communications platform communicates directly with Harvest Cutting Machines ensuring that they always have 24/7 connectivity, thus 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.
