Vincent van Walt's Travel Journal

Sampling equipment does not need to be expensive

… especially when it concerns sampling for (soil) pore water.

When inches and millimetres matter

Despite being of an age when we learned metric alongside imperial, I find it difficult to do the mental gymnastics to convert a foot into centimetres. The grey cells are totally overwhelmed when I’m...

A lesson in Critical thinking..

Socrates would have been proud of us last week.. The level of discussion and uncertainty that ensued over what appeared to be a simple question evolved into multiple email chains that deserved to be discussed...

Understanding the requirements

It’s a common occurrence - we receive a request for pricing to measure a parameter or series of parameters on telemetry. But to do our job properly and give you the best service we need more information,...

Are you SLA-ing?

Have you been SLA-ing?

Whisky and Paracetamol…Epilogue

Whisky and Paracetamol – When the customer assists in a multi-sensor network installation

There is no doubt that our best telemetric installations have been when the customer has been involved proactively and the recent network delivered to Vindolanda is no exception.

You need to measure Nitrates? There are options!

Nitrogen is an essential food for plant growth.  In order to get that Nitrogen, plants will assimilate it in a large way in the form of Nitrates. Those three atoms of Oxygen and one atom of Nitrogen produce...

Van Walt goes to Kenya

Kenya December 2021