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Recon SpreadSense - Blockage Monitor
Recon SpreadSense is the industry’s first blockage monitor for floaters designed to ensure accurate application and prevent re-application and claims. Utilizing the same acoustic technology developed for other Recon monitoring systems, Recon SpreadSense provides reliable real-time blockage detection.
Simplicity
It’s easy to use. One screen shows which runs on specific manifolds are blocked as soon as a blockage occurs.
Utility
The iPad is more versatile than other in-cab monitoring solutions, allowing you to use the display for personal computing needs as well as blockage monitoring.
Installation
The system is easy to install and configure, self-calibrating for different products and rates.
Reliability
The wireless interface between the ECUs and display results in a system with significantly fewer wires than optical and electromechanical systems, resulting in fewer wire-related service issues.
The sensors function similar to a stethoscope. As product enters the sensor, it impacts a stainless steel membrane, causing a small pulse of sound. Those pulses are transferred through a tube to the ECU, a collection point that converts all the analog audio pulses into digital signals that are transmitted wirelessly to the iPad in the cab of the tractor. The custom-designed iPad app clearly displays blockages at a glance.
The IAS Wireless Blockage Monitor is offered as an all-run blockage option on Amity and AGCO Sunflower air drills and is also available for aftermarket installation on other manufacturers’ air seeders, fertilizer applicators, and box drills. The system can be easily adapted to fit nearly any application, through dual-shooting or mid-row banders, and with multiple sensor options.
You’ll find it’s priced similarly to competitive offerings. To get a price quote, contact a dealer near you, or request a quote with the link below and have it emailed directly to your inbox.
SOUND INVESTMENT - CALCULATE YOUR SAVINGS
Eliminate misapplication claims and customer complaints with Recon SpreadSense. Our system costs pennies per acre and can save farmers thousands per field. Fertilizer misapplication resulting from one plugged tube (2 deflectors) on a broadcast boom over a 160-acre field can cost the farmer a lost revenue of $4,000 in corn, $3,000 in soybean, and $1,650 in wheat. Now that’s a sound investment.
*Based on a 70 ft boom and 50% yield reduction in areas of the field where fertilizer is misapplied.
REDUCE OPERATOR STRESS
Ensure accurate distribution of products across your floater and increase your efficiency by not having to visually detect flow issues so you can improve the effectiveness of the applicator.
ELIMINATE MISAPPLICATION CLAIMS
A blocked run can cost thousands of dollars in insurance claims. Reduce the risk of misapplied product and customer complaints with reliable blockage monitoring.
TRUSTED TECHNOLOGY WITH PROVEN PERFORMANCE
Monitor machine performance to ensure optimal application. Identify other issues affecting your floater. With Recon SpreadSense you can measure individual deflector flow status and relative flow across the entire boom.
EASY TO INSTALL
The acoustic sensors are easy to install on the back of each deflector which doesn’t cause any disruption to product flow.
Our acoustic sensor technology provides reliable, real-time flow detection. The acoustic sensors are easy to install on the back of each deflector to listen for material flow and send sound pulses through auditory tubes, similar to a stethoscope. The data is collected by an Electronic Control Unit (ECU), which displays the information on an iPad® in the cab. If there’s a blockage anywhere in the system, you’ll know.