Success Story: Ayres Verdes SRL - Baler Telemetry Monitored from Miami

A baler working in Forres, Santiago del Estero. Its owner watches it live from Miami, bale by bale.

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The Customer: Ayres Verdes SRL

Ayres Verdes SRL is an agricultural company based in Forres, Robles Department, Santiago del Estero, Argentina, focused on alfalfa production. The business depends on a critical asset —the baler— operating far from the office, on large fields where a lost day due to a malfunction, an open chamber, or an incorrect bale count directly impacts revenue.

Its director, Eng. Gonzalo Javier Hernández, had a concrete problem: he needed to monitor production without being physically in the field, even when traveling abroad.

Customer Data
Company	Ayres Verdes SRL
Industry	Agriculture - Alfalfa production
Location	Forres, Robles Department, Santiago del Estero, Argentina
Asset monitored	Baler
Main challenge	Real-time, remote control of bale production

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🎬 Watch the full case in 46 seconds — the baler working, live data, and remote management.

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The Challenge: Production Without Visibility

A baler produces dozens of bales per hour, but until now the only way to know how many bales were made was to wait until the end of the shift and count them manually. That meant:

• ❌ Zero real-time visibility of productivity
• ❌ Inability to detect anomalous stops or inefficiencies as they happen
• ❌ Total dependence on manual reports from the operator
• ❌ The owner couldn't manage the business when away from the field

"I needed to be able to look at the baler at any time of day, see how many bales it had made, whether it was working or stopped, without having to call anyone."

— Eng. Gonzalo Javier Hernández, Ayres Verdes SRL

The requirement wasn't just GPS positioning: it was about integrating the machine's own mechanics into the telemetry system.

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The Solution: COPSAT + Spider IoT + Custom Electronics

COPSAT Seguimiento Satelital, our Strategic Partner in Santiago del Estero with over 10 years of experience and +3,000 vehicles under monitoring, took on the project. The solution was built in three layers:

1. Rinho Hardware

Device	Function
Spider IoT	GPS telemetry, cellular connectivity, pulse counter on digital input, battery reading, and chamber/cover status

Spider IoT was chosen for its digital input configurable as a pulse counter, ideal for translating a repetitive mechanical event (every finished bale) into incremental digital data.

2. Custom Electronics Developed by COPSAT

The COPSAT engineering team designed an additional electronic board whose function was to reliably detect the effect of the baler's movement associated with the completion of each bale, and convert it into a clean pulse the Spider IoT could count.

💡 The hard part wasn't counting pulses. It was getting the electronics to correctly detect the mechanical event — without false positives from vibration, without missing bales due to bounce, and without being affected by field conditions.

The project required several iterations until the right sensitivity was calibrated. Every test was carried out with the machine working in real conditions.

3. Monitoring Platform

The data lands on COPSAT's platform, accessible from any phone or browser. Eng. Hernández opens it indistinctly in Argentina or abroad.

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The Result: Production Controlled in Real Time

Today Ayres Verdes watches the baler as if it were right next to them:

The customer's screen shows, live:

Sensor	What it shows	Real value (sample)
Asset battery	Baler voltage (indicates engine on/charging)	13.6 V
Partial bale	Counter for the shift / current batch	798
Total bale	Lifetime accumulated count	7,295
Chamber	Packing chamber state (open / closed)	Closed

Bale-level history

The system stores every counter increment with its timestamp. The customer can review when each bale was made and reconstruct the productivity curve for any given day:

198 records for that day, one per bale, with second-level precision.

Field path of the work

Spider IoT's GPS documents the baler's trajectory inside the field, including stops and how long each one lasted. Useful to audit operators and detect dead time:

Field in San Martín Department, Santiago del Estero. Each numbered tag indicates a stop and the minutes parked.

Management from Miami

The project's litmus test: Eng. Hernández was able to follow the operation in real time from Miami during a trip, without asking anyone for a WhatsApp report.

Same screen from Florida (USA) all the way to the field in Santiago del Estero.

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Why It Worked

Factor	Contribution
Spider IoT	Hardware with native pulse counter, stable cellular connectivity, low operating costs
COPSAT	Knowledge of agriculture in Santiago del Estero, capability to develop add-on electronics, local support
Real iteration	Several field tests until the sensor was calibrated correctly — no first-version shortcuts
Accessible platform	Clean visualization of the right sensors (not raw data)

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The Customer's Voice

"Today I can see the baler from wherever I am. I know how many bales it has made, whether it's working or stopped. It's exactly what I needed."

— Eng. Gonzalo Javier Hernández, Ayres Verdes SRL

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Conclusion

This case shows two things that matter in agricultural telemetry projects:

1. Standard hardware alone isn't enough. The difference is made by a partner who knows how to add custom electronics on top of the device when the case calls for it.
2. The platform must show the business metric, not just position. For Ayres Verdes, "bales produced" is the business metric. Position and engine hours are secondary.

COPSAT is Rinho's Strategic Partner in Santiago del Estero. For similar agricultural telemetry projects in northern Argentina, they're the natural contact.

💡 Are you a producer or integrator with a similar case? Rinho hardware + a technical partner with judgment = telemetry that actually works. Let's talk.

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Resources

Rinho Telematics:

• 📦 Spider IoT - specifications
• 🤝 COPSAT - Partner profile
• 🌾 Agriculture & machinery solutions
• 📡 WiFi + Starlink - rural connectivity

Related cases:

• 📖 RELEVAR SRL - Agricultural telemetry with dual connectivity
• 📖 TrailingSat - GPS and video for mining with Starlink

External:

• 🔗 COPSAT Seguimiento Satelital

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