Bringing the Internet of Things to the farm

Hearne and Dundon recently completed LaunchBox, Trinity’s ten-week start-up accelerator programme

Joanna Hearne and Shane Hamilton of Haysaver Picture: Fergal Phillips

Name: Joanna Hearne and Graham Dundon

Company: Haysaver

The pitch: IoT monitor for hay quality

Engineering graduates Joanna Hearne and Graham Dundon are harnessing the Internet of Things (IoT) to develop sensor-based technology aimed at helping farmers to use hay more efficiently.

Hearne and Dundon’s Haysaver device can be inserted directly into hay bales, reading temperature and humidity at one-minute intervals.

The data gathered is transferred online through a LoRa [low power, long ...