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Farmex is offering a clever upgrade to the software on its Dicam controllers for pig housing, to further safeguard the health and welfare of pigs when alarms are set in controlled-environment buildings.
An effective alarm system is a legal requirement to ensure pigs have sufficient ventilation. Farmex is offering this upgrade on all controllers with an alarm function. It ensures that stockpeople cannot permanently deactivate the alarm, for example when emptying pens. If an operator mistakenly leaves a room ‘inactive’ when restocking or while it still has pigs in it, the high, or low, temperature will still trigger the alarm.
“With multi-room controllers, the ability to inactivate individual rooms when they are empty, or
when the power is to be turned off, is obviously handy,” said Farmex managing director, Hugh
Crabtree.
“The upgrade overcomes the problem of human error if a person forgets to re-activate the
room when restocking. The change means that despite a room being set inactive, temperature
alarms are still active in the background.”
The upgrade, which involves a ROM replacement, costs £50.
February 4, 2021 - Farmex
