HORTECOur weather services consist of an online software platform (iLeaf) from which users can view weather data and models based on measurements from our more than 650 weather stations based in Southern Africa.
To meet the decision support requirements of modern day farming our app allows for the seamless integration of raw weather data, weather predictions, and models that can be viewed on a desktop, tablet or smartphone.
Our weather stations have GPRS technology and sends data in real-time to the cloud. Our stations are monitored daily for functionality to ensure a high quality data stream to the cloud.
- Frost Forecast
- Spray Conditions
- Live Data Monitoring
- Station Data
- Station comparison
- Weather Models
- Insects
- Diseases ...
Click here to view a live map of current temperatures, rainfall and other parameters as measured by our stations.
Our weather stations can measure temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind speed, wind direction and solar radiation. All our weather stations communicate through GPRS technology. Weather data is sent hourly to a central cloud server where the data is thoroughly checked by our quality system as in the examples below:
Temperature • Rainfall • Rainfall 24h • Rainfall 48h
• Relative Humidity • Wind Speed
• Fire Dry • Fire Wet • Frost
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