The last couple of months have been really
busy for TNH with lots of interesting and exciting happenings taking place.
Security is becoming a far more important
component of our work, with our customer base which is primarily in the rural
areas requiring better security.
Fortunately our product offering caters even to high end customers
requiring top quality security systems.
Frazer spent a month in Cabinda Angola commissioning a fibre optic
intrusion detection system for an oil pipeline.
This system is excellent as it is extremely accurate in pinpointing the
location of the breach, can virtually eliminate nuisance alarms and can be
installed over massive distances on fences or underground, depending on the
requirement. It is however a costly
system, and while it has not been adopted by the wildlife or game-farming
market yet, with the recent escalation in rare game prices and the continued
threat of poaching, particularly of rhino, it will not be long before game
breeders start using these systems to assist them in protecting their valuable
wildlife assets.
What is however now
being be adopted by the wildlife industry is the use of computer software such
as Perimeter Patrol to monitor their electric fences. While this type of system has been used
extensively for security applications for small sites such as factories,
housing complexes and business parks, recent advances in wireless technology
have now made it possible for us to set this up on farms and game
reserves.
Electric fences around these
sites can be monitored remotely via an internet connection which allows
managers to allocate resources which would otherwise have been used to check
the fence to other tasks. Farmers can
also check fences when not on the farm and alarms also alert the user when
faults occur on the fence. We have recently
set up Perimeter Patrol at Thaba Tholo to enable them to monitor the electric
fence around their rare game breeding camps.
Serious interest has also been shown by other well-known reserves. No sooner had Frazer returned from Angola
when Theo jetted off to Europe to undergo a month long combat training
course. With the skills learned there
added to an already impressive arsenal of counter-poaching techniques, Theo is
ideally equipped to take on any anti-poaching challenge.
August was also show month for TNH, with the
Thabazimbi agricultural show once again being an excellent opportunity to catch
up with many of our clients from the bushveld region. We also exhibited at the African Farmers Expo
where with the support from the guys from Stafix we were able to make ourselves
known to a new group of potential customers.
With delegates from as far afield as Israel and Zambia spending time on
the stand, prospects for the future look promising.
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Tubby together with the Zambian minister of livestock and
agriculture, Wilbur Simusa at the African Farmers Expo
